Skill: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

When to Use

Trigger when designing deployment pipelines, managing solutions, promoting across environments, or setting up CI/CD for Power Platform.

ALM Golden Rules

1. Never import unmanaged solutions to Test or Production
2. Every environment needs a dedicated service principal — no human accounts in pipelines
3. Environment variables must be set per environment — never hardcoded
4. Connection references must be pre-created before solution import
5. Solution version must increment on every build (major.minor.build.revision)
6. Always run Solution Checker before promoting to Test/Prod

⚠️ REQUIRED: Load Sub-Files Before Implementation