Hi everyone,
I'm looking for best practices for managing Microsoft Power Automate Flows in enterprise environments and would appreciate your experiences and insights. We're using Power Automate extensively in our company, and some questions have come up where we're unsure how best to proceed.
Specifically, I'm interested in the following points:
- Loss of Flows due to Departing Employees: How do you ensure that flows are not lost when an employee who created the flow leaves the company? Are there mechanisms for automatic transfer or notification?
- Enforcing Co-Owners: Is there a way to automatically or by policy enforce a co-owner for each flow to prevent outages? Are there perhaps even automations for this?
- Flow Environments: How are your Power Automate environments structured? Do you use separate environments for different departments or projects? How do you handle permissions and access?
- Critical Flows: What happens when a flow created by an individual user becomes a business-critical process over time? Is there a process for "taking over" and officially maintaining such flows? How is responsibility and documentation ensured?
- Documentation and Version Control: How do you document your flows? Do you use external tools or the integrated functions? Is there any kind of version control to track changes?
- Governance: What policies and governance processes have you implemented for the creation and operation of Power Automate Flows?
I'm very curious about your answers and experiences. Perhaps we can collectively compile a collection of best practices that helps everyone.
Thank you in advance!