Quick test: can you build a Power Automate Flow by writing its definition in your editor first?

Quick test: can you build a Power Automate Flow by writing its definition in your editor first?

If no, you are not doing source-centric ALM on Dataverse. You are doing environment-centric.

Source-centric needs three things:

1️⃣ source is the truth
2️⃣ the build is deterministic from source alone
3️⃣ deployment rebuilds any state from source

Dataverse fails the first one. Flows, model-driven apps, Canvas Apps, business rules all get authored in the maker portal. The unpacked files are downstream of an environment edit.

Strip the ceremony and you have environment-centric with a git layer for audit and deployment. Useful pattern. Not source-centric.

The labels matter because the ceremony you build on the wrong label costs engineering budget.

Wrote more on this in this week’s blog.