The summary.
THE CENTRAL RISK IS SHADOW DEVELOPMENT
Anyone with a licence can build something the business comes to depend on, with no documentation, testing or owner.
Establish who may build, where, and what happens when the builder leaves — and provide a path for escalating a personal tool that became business-critical.
Prohibition produces workarounds; enablement with guardrails produces better outcomes.
RESTRICT THE DEFAULT ENVIRONMENT AND BUILD IN SOLUTIONS
The default is where everything lands if nothing is governed, and it becomes unmanageable.
Use environment variables, or every deployment needs manual editing.
IN POWER APPS, DELEGATION IS THE TRAP
Non-delegable operations process only a limited number of records and silently produce wrong results on larger data. Address every warning, and test with realistic volumes.
CONFIGURE FAILURE NOTIFICATION ON EVERY FLOW
A silently failing flow is discovered weeks later, when someone notices work was never done.
And never run flows as an individual — they stop when that person leaves.
IN POWER BI, THE MODEL IS WHERE THE DIFFICULTY LIES
Remove columns early, push work to the source, build a proper date table, and prefer measures to calculated columns.
Always show the last refresh date, or readers act on stale figures.
CHECK WHICH CONNECTORS YOUR LICENCE INCLUDES
It is a common and expensive surprise.
