Approaches to Managing Changes in Power Platform ALM

As is the case for all software development, for Power Platform projects, it is important to have a consistent way of managing your changes.

Besides a “normal” strategy for all code parts in a Power Platform, there are mainly two different approaches for configuration made in a Power Platform Development environment:

• Environment-centric
• Source code-centric

In this chapter, we will learn the difference between those two, as well as the environmental considerations when it comes to those mentioned approaches.

We will also look into branching strategies when it comes to Power Platform.

We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Environment-centric approach
• Source code-centric approach
• Combining both of the approaches
• Branching
• Process of a source code-centric approach

In this chapter, we will talk about version control (or source control). It is an...