Power Platform moves fast. Two major release waves per year — Wave 1 in April, Wave 2 in October — plus continuous feature updates in between. A governance decision from six months ago might have a better solution available today.
The information sources worth following
- Release plans: Microsoft publishes wave documentation months in advance at docs.microsoft.com. Dense but comprehensive.
- Power Platform blog: announces features as they ship. Worth following via RSS.
- Community blogs and MVPs: tell you what is worth using and what has caveats. More opinionated than official sources — often more useful.
A practical update system
- Weekly: fifteen minutes scanning the Power Platform blog for shipped features
- Monthly: one hour reviewing the current release wave plan
- Quarterly: review your own governance documentation against what has shipped
- Bi-annually: deep review of each full release wave
What to prioritise
Admin centre capability changes, DLP policy option changes, ALM and pipeline tooling improvements, licensing changes, security and compliance updates. Not everything Microsoft ships matters equally to a practitioner focused on enterprise governance.
The goal is not to know every feature. It is to know what has changed that affects how you make recommendations.
Set a calendar recurring event: one hour, first Monday of each month, Power Platform release review. Consistent review habits prevent the accumulation of a knowledge gap.
