What Nobody Tells You Before You Deploy Microsoft Power Platform

There's a version of the Power Platform story that shows up in vendor presentations and case study summaries. Low-code development. Citizen developers. Dramatic reductions in development time. 248% ROI. It's all true, in the right conditions, for the right problems, in organisations that have set things up properly.

Then there's the version nobody writes a case study about. The department that deployed Power Automate on a process that turned out to be more complicated than it looked, and ended up with an automated flow that broke on every third exception because the edge cases were never mapped. The team that built fifty Power Apps in six months because it was easy to build things, and is now sitting on fifty apps that nobody is quite sure are still needed, maintained by nobody in particular, connecting to data sources that may or may not be current. These aren't rare outcomes. They're...

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