Breaking the Deadlock: Solving Circular Dependencies in Power Platform ALM

The “Mexican Standoff” of Managed Solutions In enterprise-scale Power Platform environments, we aim for a modular architecture. We split our logic into multiple solutions—perhaps one for “Finance” and another for “HR.” However, without a strict dependency strategy, you will eventually hit a Solution Deadlock. This usually happens during a Staged Upgrade. You try to deploy an update to Solution A, but it fails because Solution B (already in Production) holds a dependency on a component that Solution A is trying to modify or remove. When you try to update Solution B first, you hit the same wall. ...

March 27, 2026 · 3 min · Sunil Kumar Pashikanti