Power Platform Governance Roadmap

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S3P2DraftFuture Proof

Governance Zones & Environment Strategy

Ensure every solution runs inside boundaries proportionate to its business impact, with a coherent environment strategy replacing today's ad-hoc estate.

Implementation of the Green / Amber / Red / Black zone model, managed environments, environment groups and naming standards.

Lead
Marius Oprea
Owner
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Planned
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Deliverables
8
Effort
14.5
sprints
Delivered
0/8

Deliverables

RefTitlePhasePlannedPriorityOwnerSprintsStatus
S3.8
Management decision on the proposed Environments Landing Zones strategy (Premium licensing and implementation)
Decision from management on the Environments Landing Zones strategy proposed by Marius, Macaw and Microsoft; currently awaiting decision on Premium licensing and implementation.
Phase 1Q1 2027P1Marius Oprea0Draft
S3.1
Confirm the four-zone model and classification criteria
Agree Green, Amber, Red and Black as the governance zones, with the business impact and risk assessment criteria that place a solution in each, and the project types that map to them.
Phase 1Q1 2027P1Marius Oprea1Draft
S3.2
Roll out managed environments per zone
Apply managed environments to the Red and Black zones first, then Amber, taking the sharing limits, enforced policies and security features that come with them.
Phase 2Q1 2027P1Marius Oprea3Draft
S3.3
Establish environment groups and rules
Create environment groups per zone with the associated rules. None exist today.
Phase 2Q1 2027P1Dogaru Eduard2Draft
S3.4
Configure environment routing to personal developer environments
Route makers into their own personal development environments rather than the default environment, using the welcome message to set expectations.
Phase 2—P2Ovidiu Kislaposi1.5Draft
S3.5
Define shared regional production environments per OpCo
Establish the Red zone shared production environments that structurally used and properly supported solutions migrate into, owned by the regional teams.
Phase 2—P2Vamsi Namuduri2Draft
S3.6
Environment request and provisioning process
A standard route to request an environment, including approval, naming, access group provisioning and registration of the responsible owner.
Phase 2—P2Ovidiu Kislaposi2Draft
S3.7
Zone migration path for existing solutions
Define and run the route that moves existing solutions out of personal productivity into the zone that matches their actual business impact.
Phase 3—P3ACE Solutioning3Draft

By phase

  • Phase 12 · 1 spr
  • Phase 25 · 10.5 spr
  • Phase 31 · 3 spr

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