There has been a steady increase in the complexity of business applications and business requirements that are inclined to develop new processes and procedures to manage the entire application lifecycle. The definition of application life cycle management varies project by project and technology and ALM is not one size fits. By definition : Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the people, tools, and processes that manage the life cycle of an application from conception to end-of-life. While the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) mainly focuses on the development phase, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) includes development, governance, maintenance and finally the obsolescence of software. In the Power platform, the application lifecycle management is the cyclical software development process that involves these area: The components of the Power Platform are heterogeneous nature and complex, but they work together, so it has its own application lifecycle. The Dataverse in...

The solution plays an important role in transporting the customization between different environments. In other words, it is a critical factor in the application lifecycle. Undoubtedly, the environmental strategy is the first concern and  at least, project should have a development, testing and production environment. The solution is the mechanism for implementing ALM in the power platform. As the Microsoft Doc definition : Solutions are how customizers and developers author, package, and maintain units of software that extend Microsoft Dataverse. Solution Component: The individual item that can be added to the solution is called the component. In other words, the component represents something that we can potentially customize. Below screen shot can give a clear comprehensive information about the components. Solution Lifecycle: Following actions of solution helps to support application lifecycle process: Create :   Create Author and export unmanaged solutions. Update: ...