Tag: power-platform

21 posts tagged with "power-platform"

• AI-Powered Flow Review - Quality Gates Before Production

  February 10, 2026

  Pipeline approvals are rubber stamps. Use AI to review Power Automate flow JSON for error handling gaps, hardcoded values, and naming violations.

• What AI Gets Wrong on Power Platform: Common Anti-Patterns and How to Correct Them

  February 6, 2026

  AI proposes the most common Power Automate patterns by default, which is wrong for many real solutions. Here are the anti-patterns to watch for and how to correct them via spec discipline.

• Spec-Driven Power Automate: Parallel Flow Generation From a Single Spec

  February 5, 2026

  How a precise markdown spec, tag-based architecture, and parallel AI agents turn a batch of notification flows into a clean Dataverse solution import. Pattern walkthrough.

• Spec-Driven Power Platform: Series Overview

  February 3, 2026

  A connected methodology for building Power Automate solutions: spec-first authoring, tag-based architecture, notification separation, FetchXML over OData, and programmatic solution packaging.

• Spec-First Power Automate Development: Why Your Flow Specs Should Exist Before the Designer Opens

  January 29, 2026

  Designer-first Power Automate is opaque to source control and AI. Spec-first development makes flow generation reviewable, diff-able, and parallelizable.

• XrmToolBox Schema Export to ERD with Claude - 5-Minute Visual Documentation

  January 27, 2026

  Export your Dataverse schema from XrmToolBox and use Claude to generate a Draw.io ERD in minutes. No manual diagramming required.

• Generate a Beautiful Dataverse ERD in 5 Minutes

  January 22, 2026

  Stop struggling with ugly, unreadable ERDs. Generate color-coded, publication-ready Dataverse entity relationship diagrams using batch XML generation.

• Building Dataverse Solution ZIPs Programmatically: The Undocumented Guide

  January 20, 2026

  Build a Dataverse solution ZIP from scratch, covering the two JSON formats, the forward-slash trap, and undocumented XML workflow entries.

• FetchXML in Power Automate: When OData $filter Is Not Enough

  January 15, 2026

  FetchXML in Power Automate handles temporal queries, linked entity joins, and IN filters that OData $filter cannot. Patterns for notification flows.

• Tag-Based Flow Architecture in Power Automate

  January 13, 2026

  Entity-area tags turn a flat list of Power Automate flows into a navigable architecture. A naming system that maps to ADO, source control, and AI agent batches.

• Notification Architecture That Cannot Break Your Business Logic

  January 9, 2026

  Separate Power Automate notification flows from business logic. One rule: notification flows read Dataverse and send email, never write back. The notification layer becomes disposable without business risk.

• The Weekly Power Automate Governance Digest - Automated Platform Health

  January 8, 2026

  Build a weekly Power Automate governance digest that emails new flows, broken flows, orphans, and policy violations to your platform team automatically.

• The Power Platform Governance Repo - Standards Reviews and Inventory in Git

  January 6, 2026

  One git repo for all Power Platform governance: naming standards, review checklists, flow inventory, and AI review reports. Version-controlled.

• Power Platform Pipelines - Moving Flows from Dev to Prod with Approvals

  December 30, 2025

  Pipelines in Power Platform are Microsoft's built-in CI/CD. Most orgs don't know they exist. Setup guide with approval gates and deployment settings.

• Power Automate Versioning and Source Control - Export Tag Track

  December 23, 2025

  Power Automate has no version control for individual flows. Export flow JSON to git, tag versions, diff changes, and track every modification.

• Solution-Aware Power Automate Flows - Why Loose Flows Kill Your ALM

  December 18, 2025

  Learn why solution-aware Power Automate flows are essential for ALM, governance, and deployment. Fix loose flows before they become technical debt.

• Living Documentation in Git - Why Your SharePoint Word Docs Are Dead

  December 16, 2025

  Move architecture diagrams and technical docs from SharePoint Word files into git. Version with code, review in PRs, never let docs go stale again.

• Power Automate Flow Inventory - You Can't Govern What You Can't See

  December 11, 2025

  Build a Power Automate flow inventory using PowerShell, admin connectors, or the CoE Starter Kit. Discover, classify, and fix orphaned flows.

• Power Automate Environment Strategy - Dev Test Prod Done Right

  December 9, 2025

  Stop running Power Automate flows in the default environment. Practical guide to dev/test/prod with Managed Environments and environment routing.

• Power Automate Naming Conventions That Scale

  December 4, 2025

  A definitive naming standard for Power Automate flows, connection references, and environment variables. Stop naming flows 'My Flow 2'.

• CoE Starter Kit - What It Actually Does and What to Build on Top

  December 2, 2025

  The Center of Excellence Starter Kit is Microsoft's official governance solution. Here's what works, what doesn't, and what's missing.