diff --git a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/package.json b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/package.json
index 0daa0c00ca3648..7d634a1864999c 100644
--- a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/package.json
+++ b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "type-check": "tsc -p .",
-    "test": "ts-node ./src/index.ts"
+    "test": "ts-node --transpileOnly ./src/index.ts"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@fluentui/scripts-tasks": "*",
diff --git a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/src/index.ts b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/src/index.ts
index b06bee4e7da945..cc783f58401558 100644
--- a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react-components/src/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import {
   log,
   shEcho,
   TempPaths,
-  workspaceRoot,
   generateFiles,
   addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages,
   packProjectPackages,
@@ -34,8 +33,7 @@ async function performTest() {
     await shEcho(`yarn add ${dependencies}`, tempPaths.testApp);
     logger(`✔️ Dependencies were installed`);
 
-    const lernaRoot = workspaceRoot;
-    const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, lernaRoot, ['@fluentui/react-components']);
+    const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react-components');
     await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(tempPaths.testApp);
 
     await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react-components']}`, tempPaths.testApp);
diff --git a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/package.json b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/package.json
index 2aa76bc5489f64..90edc02f0ddfdc 100644
--- a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/package.json
+++ b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "type-check": "tsc -p .",
-    "test": "ts-node ./src/index.ts"
+    "test": "ts-node --transpileOnly ./src/index.ts"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@fluentui/scripts-tasks": "*",
diff --git a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/src/index.ts b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/src/index.ts
index 0297b04c04fb5c..05193387ef14a7 100644
--- a/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/ts-minbar-test-react/src/index.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import {
   log,
   shEcho,
   TempPaths,
-  workspaceRoot,
   generateFiles,
 } from '@fluentui/scripts-projects-test';
 
@@ -36,8 +35,7 @@ async function performTest() {
     await shEcho(`yarn add ${dependencies}`, tempPaths.testApp);
     logger(`✔️ Dependencies were installed`);
 
-    const lernaRoot = workspaceRoot;
-    const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, lernaRoot, ['@fluentui/react']);
+    const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react');
     await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(tempPaths.testApp);
 
     await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react']}`, tempPaths.testApp);
diff --git a/change/@fluentui-cra-template-be360b59-bfe0-4e5e-9fcf-8b5ec9154ac5.json b/change/@fluentui-cra-template-be360b59-bfe0-4e5e-9fcf-8b5ec9154ac5.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..52a2857e6a7aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/@fluentui-cra-template-be360b59-bfe0-4e5e-9fcf-8b5ec9154ac5.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "type": "none",
+  "comment": "chore: refactor test to use latest APIs",
+  "packageName": "@fluentui/cra-template",
+  "email": "martinhochel@microsoft.com",
+  "dependentChangeType": "none"
+}
diff --git a/jest.preset.js b/jest.preset.js
index e58a6359660e6d..1a4492c352a218 100644
--- a/jest.preset.js
+++ b/jest.preset.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const baseConfig = {
     '^.+\\.ts$': 'ts-jest',
   },
   testMatch: ['**/+(*.)+(spec|test).+(ts|js)?(x)'],
-  moduleFileExtensions: ['ts', 'tsx', 'js', 'jsx'],
+  moduleFileExtensions: ['ts', 'tsx', 'js', 'jsx', 'json'],
   testPathIgnorePatterns: ['/node_modules/', '/lib/', '/lib-commonjs/', '/dist/'],
   testEnvironment: 'jsdom',
   moduleNameMapper: { ...tsPathAliases },
diff --git a/nx.json b/nx.json
index 09ecb831d2f7e3..5efd3cd15e108b 100644
--- a/nx.json
+++ b/nx.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   },
   "pluginsConfig": {
     "@nx/js": {
-      "analyzeSourceFiles": true
+      "analyzeSourceFiles": false
     }
   },
   "targetDefaults": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b004696e42d56c..46beb1724f03c9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -163,8 +163,6 @@
     "@types/jju": "1.4.1",
     "@types/json-schema": "^7.0.8",
     "@types/lerna-alias": "3.0.0",
-    "@types/lerna__package-graph": "5.1.0",
-    "@types/lerna__project": "5.1.0",
     "@types/loader-utils": "2.0.3",
     "@types/lodash": "4.14.182",
     "@types/markdown-table": "2.0.0",
@@ -274,8 +272,6 @@
     "just-scripts": "1.8.2",
     "lage": "1.8.8",
     "lerna": "7.1.3",
-    "@lerna/project": "6.4.1",
-    "@lerna/package-graph": "6.4.1",
     "lerna-alias": "3.0.3-0",
     "license-webpack-plugin": "2.3.10",
     "lint-staged": "10.2.10",
diff --git a/packages/cra-template/package.json b/packages/cra-template/package.json
index 6249be058e6261..8ae80dcc0384e9 100644
--- a/packages/cra-template/package.json
+++ b/packages/cra-template/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
     "@fluentui/react": "*",
-    "@fluentui/scripts-projects-test": "*",
-    "@fluentui/scripts-monorepo": "*"
+    "@fluentui/scripts-projects-test": "*"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/cra-template/scripts/test.ts b/packages/cra-template/scripts/test.ts
index aa095081dbb2ac..09be42bcc9f153 100644
--- a/packages/cra-template/scripts/test.ts
+++ b/packages/cra-template/scripts/test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 import semver from 'semver';
 
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@ import {
   prepareCreateReactApp,
   TempPaths,
 } from '@fluentui/scripts-projects-test';
-import { findGitRoot } from '@fluentui/scripts-monorepo';
 
+//  eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+function readJson(filePath: string): Record<string, any> {
+  return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8'));
+}
 // This test is sort of like `packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/createReactApp.ts`, but it uses
 // a custom local template rather than making a generic TS project and adding our project as a dep.
 // So they share some logic, but can't be completely merged (and this test shouldn't go under
@@ -24,9 +27,9 @@ import { findGitRoot } from '@fluentui/scripts-monorepo';
  * This will probably only be an issue if there's a major version bump.
  */
 function verifyVersion() {
-  const templateJson = fs.readJSONSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../template.json'));
+  const templateJson = readJson(path.resolve(__dirname, '../template.json'));
   const templateVersion = templateJson.package.dependencies['@fluentui/react'];
-  const reactPackageJson = fs.readJSONSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../../react/package.json'));
+  const reactPackageJson = readJson(path.resolve(__dirname, '../../react/package.json'));
   const actualVersion = reactPackageJson.version;
   if (!semver.satisfies(actualVersion, templateVersion)) {
     console.error(
@@ -42,15 +45,16 @@ function verifyVersion() {
  * Instead, pack up the locally-built packages and make a copy of the template which references them.
  */
 async function prepareTemplate(logger: Function, tempPaths: TempPaths) {
-  await packProjectPackages(logger, findGitRoot(), ['@fluentui/react']);
+  await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react');
 
   const templatePath = path.join(tempPaths.root, 'cra-template');
 
-  const packageJson = fs.readJSONSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../package.json'));
+  const packageJson = readJson(path.resolve(__dirname, '../package.json'));
   // Copy only the template files that would be installed from npm
   const filesToCopy = [...packageJson.files, 'package.json'];
+  const rootDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
   for (const file of filesToCopy) {
-    await fs.copy(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', file), path.join(templatePath, file));
+    fs.cpSync(path.resolve(rootDir, file), path.join(templatePath, file), { recursive: true });
   }
 
   await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(templatePath, true /*isTemplateJson*/);
diff --git a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/createReactApp.ts b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/createReactApp.ts
index 35d1a5970ccc73..d8b81ba6e11ac3 100644
--- a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/createReactApp.ts
+++ b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/createReactApp.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import {
   shEcho,
   performBrowserTest,
   prepareCreateReactApp,
-  workspaceRoot,
   generateFiles,
 } from '@fluentui/scripts-projects-test';
 
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ export async function createReactApp() {
 
   logger('STEP 2. Add Fluent UI dependency to test project..');
 
-  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, workspaceRoot, ['@fluentui/react-northstar']);
+  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react-northstar');
   await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(testAppPathRoot);
 
   await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react-northstar']}`, testAppPathRoot);
diff --git a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/nextjs.ts b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/nextjs.ts
index 89ffe9b5bca077..0cf59efae8b7c7 100644
--- a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/nextjs.ts
+++ b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/nextjs.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import {
   log,
   shEcho,
   performBrowserTest,
-  workspaceRoot,
   generateFiles,
 } from '@fluentui/scripts-projects-test';
 
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ export async function nextjs() {
 
   logger('STEP 2. Add Fluent UI dependency to test project');
 
-  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, workspaceRoot, ['@fluentui/react-northstar']);
+  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react-northstar');
   await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(tempPaths.testApp);
 
   await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react-northstar']}`, tempPaths.testApp);
diff --git a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/rollup.ts b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/rollup.ts
index db992e4e96be7a..503886369cc7bb 100644
--- a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/rollup.ts
+++ b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/rollup.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import {
   prepareTempDirs,
   log,
   shEcho,
-  workspaceRoot,
   generateFiles,
 } from '@fluentui/scripts-projects-test';
 
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ export async function rollup() {
 
   logger('STEP 2. Add Fluent UI dependency to test project');
 
-  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, workspaceRoot, ['@fluentui/react-northstar']);
+  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react-northstar');
   await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(tempPaths.testApp);
 
   await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react-northstar']}`, tempPaths.testApp);
diff --git a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/typings.ts b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/typings.ts
index 3b35c19abb16cd..9a812b1aa5861a 100644
--- a/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/typings.ts
+++ b/packages/fluentui/projects-test/src/typings.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export async function typings() {
   await shEcho(`yarn add ${dependencies}`, tempPaths.testApp);
   logger(`✔️ Dependencies were installed`);
 
-  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, workspaceRoot, ['@fluentui/react-northstar']);
+  const packedPackages = await packProjectPackages(logger, '@fluentui/react-northstar');
   await addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(tempPaths.testApp);
 
   await shEcho(`yarn add ${packedPackages['@fluentui/react-northstar']}`, tempPaths.testApp);
diff --git a/scripts/generators/copy-notices.js b/scripts/generators/copy-notices.js
index 85a81db3233f86..7e9129008a1488 100644
--- a/scripts/generators/copy-notices.js
+++ b/scripts/generators/copy-notices.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-const monorepo = require('@fluentui/scripts-monorepo');
-const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const monorepo = require('@fluentui/scripts-monorepo');
 
 /**
  * Copies NOTICE.txt files from `@fluentui/react-components` to all of its internal production dependencies
@@ -18,9 +19,9 @@ async function copyNotices() {
 
   console.log(`NOTICE.txt exists in ${noticeFilePath}`);
 
-  const dependencyNames = await monorepo.getDependencies('@fluentui/react-components', { production: true });
-  const copyLocations = dependencyNames.map(dependencyName =>
-    path.resolve(monorepo.findGitRoot(), 'packages', dependencyName.replace('@fluentui/', ''), 'NOTICE.txt'),
+  const dependencies = (await monorepo.getDependencies('@fluentui/react-components')).dependencies;
+  const copyLocations = dependencies.map(dep =>
+    path.resolve(monorepo.findGitRoot(), 'packages', dep.name.replace('@fluentui/', ''), 'NOTICE.txt'),
   );
 
   console.log(`reading ${noticeFilePath}`);
diff --git a/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.d.ts b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..710fff0fdd16cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Why is this manual type declaration needed?
+// - modules(projects) written in TS not having enabled `checkJS:true` wont infer types from .js files, thus the API will have `any` type.
+// This errors in strict ts check mode.
+
+/// <reference path="../../../typings/lerna/index.d.ts" />
+export declare function getDependencies(packageName: string): Promise<{
+  dependencies: Dependency[];
+  devDependencies: Dependency[];
+  all: Dependency[];
+  projectGraph: import('lerna/utils').ProjectGraphWithPackages;
+}>;
+
+type Dependency = {
+  name: string;
+  isTopLevel: boolean;
+  dependencyType: import('lerna/utils').ProjectGraphWorkspacePackageDependency['dependencyCollection'];
+};
diff --git a/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.js b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.js
index 99f471bc127682..75d44dab5b1f34 100644
--- a/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.js
+++ b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.js
@@ -1,58 +1,82 @@
-const path = require('path');
+const lernaUtils = require('lerna/utils');
 
-const { Project } = require('@lerna/project');
-
-const { PackageGraph } = require('@lerna/package-graph');
-
-const findGitRoot = require('./findGitRoot');
+/**
+* @typedef {{
+    name: string,
+    isTopLevel: boolean,
+    dependencyType: lernaUtils.ProjectGraphWorkspacePackageDependency['dependencyCollection'],
+  }} Dependency
+ */
 
 /**
  *
- * @param {string[]} rootPackages
- * @param {Map<any,any>} projectGraph
- * @param {string[]} packageList
- * @returns
+ * @param {string} project
+ * @param {lernaUtils.ProjectGraphWithPackages} projectGraph
+ * @param {*} options
+ * @param {Dependency[]} _acc
+ * @param {boolean} _areTopLevelDeps
+ * @returns {Dependency[]}
  */
-function flattenPackageGraph(rootPackages, projectGraph, packageList = []) {
-  rootPackages.forEach(packageName => {
-    packageList.push(packageName);
+function collectDependencies(
+  project,
+  projectGraph,
+  options = {
+    shallow: true,
+    dependenciesOnly: false,
+  },
+  _acc = [],
+  _areTopLevelDeps = true,
+) {
+  if (!projectGraph.localPackageDependencies[project]) {
+    return _acc;
+  }
 
-    flattenPackageGraph([...projectGraph.get(packageName).localDependencies.keys()], projectGraph, packageList);
-  });
+  projectGraph.localPackageDependencies[project].forEach(dependency => {
+    const isDependencyAlreadyCollected = _acc.some(dep => dep.name === dependency.target);
 
-  return packageList.sort().filter((v, i, a) => a.indexOf(v) === i);
-}
+    if (isDependencyAlreadyCollected) {
+      return;
+    }
 
-/**
- * Returns all the dependencies of a given package name
- * @param {string} packageName including `@fluentui/` prefix
- * @param {Object} options
- * @param {boolean} [options.dev] include dev dependencies
- * @param {boolean} [options.production] include production dependencies
- */
-async function getDependencies(packageName, options = { production: true }) {
-  const lernaProject = new Project(path.resolve(findGitRoot(), 'packages'));
-  const projectPackages = await lernaProject.getPackages();
+    if (
+      options.dependenciesOnly &&
+      dependency.dependencyCollection &&
+      dependency.dependencyCollection !== 'dependencies'
+    ) {
+      return;
+    }
 
-  const allDepsGraph = flattenPackageGraph([packageName], new PackageGraph(projectPackages));
-  const productionDepsGraph = flattenPackageGraph([packageName], new PackageGraph(projectPackages, 'dependencies'));
+    _acc.push({
+      name: dependency.target,
+      dependencyType: dependency.dependencyCollection,
+      isTopLevel: _areTopLevelDeps,
+    });
 
-  const devDependencies = allDepsGraph.filter(dep => !productionDepsGraph.includes(dep));
+    if (!options.shallow) {
+      collectDependencies(dependency.target, projectGraph, options, _acc, false);
+    }
+  });
 
-  /**
-   * @type {string[]}
-   */
-  let res = [];
+  return _acc;
+}
 
-  if (options.dev) {
-    res = res.concat(devDependencies);
-  }
+/**
+ * Returns dependencies metadata build from dependency graph for provided package
+ * @param {string} packageName - including `@fluentui/` prefix
+ */
+async function getDependencies(packageName) {
+  const { projectGraph } = await lernaUtils.detectProjects();
 
-  if (options.production) {
-    res = res.concat(productionDepsGraph);
-  }
+  const allDepsGraph = collectDependencies(packageName, projectGraph, { shallow: false, dependenciesOnly: false });
+  const depsGraph = collectDependencies(packageName, projectGraph, { shallow: false, dependenciesOnly: true });
+  const devDepsGraph = allDepsGraph.filter(anyDep => !depsGraph.find(prodDep => prodDep.name === anyDep.name));
 
-  return res;
+  return {
+    dependencies: depsGraph,
+    devDependencies: devDepsGraph,
+    all: allDepsGraph,
+    projectGraph,
+  };
 }
 
-module.exports = getDependencies;
+exports.getDependencies = getDependencies;
diff --git a/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.spec.js b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4fc69c2f41ff26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/monorepo/src/getDependencies.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+// NOTE:
+// - this spec file needs to be a javascript file otherwise there will be jest error: 'Cannot find module 'spdx-license-ids' from 'scan.js''
+// also to make this work `moduleFileExtensions: ['ts', 'tsx', 'js', 'jsx', 'json'],` was modified with added `json`
+// not 100% same error - but issue with same package ( that lerna uses under the hood ) - https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/issues/3728#issuecomment-396190777
+
+const { getDependencies } = require('./getDependencies');
+
+describe(`#getDependencies`, () => {
+  const packageName = '@fluentui/react-text';
+  it(`should return package/s dependency tree array for all,devDeps and production dependencies`, async () => {
+    const deps = await getDependencies(packageName);
+
+    expect(deps.dependencies).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+      Array [
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": true,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-shared-contexts",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-theme",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/tokens",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": true,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-utilities",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/keyboard-keys",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": true,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-jsx-runtime",
+        },
+      ]
+    `);
+
+    expect(deps.devDependencies).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+      Array [
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/eslint-plugin",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-api-extractor",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-tasks",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-monorepo",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-utils",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "dependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-prettier",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-conformance",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/scripts-jest",
+        },
+        Object {
+          "dependencyType": "devDependencies",
+          "isTopLevel": false,
+          "name": "@fluentui/react-conformance-griffel",
+        },
+      ]
+    `);
+  });
+
+  it(`should provide similar api like 'new Project(root).getPackages()'`, async () => {
+    const { projectGraph } = await getDependencies(packageName);
+    const packageInfo = projectGraph.nodes[packageName].package;
+
+    expect(packageInfo?.location).toEqual(expect.stringContaining('packages/react-components/react-text'));
+    expect(packageInfo?.dependencies).toEqual(expect.any(Object));
+    expect(packageInfo?.get('main')).toEqual('lib-commonjs/index.js');
+    expect(packageInfo?.get('module')).toEqual('lib/index.js');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/scripts/monorepo/src/index.d.ts b/scripts/monorepo/src/index.d.ts
index ef25502a1a83b0..53d016949011cf 100644
--- a/scripts/monorepo/src/index.d.ts
+++ b/scripts/monorepo/src/index.d.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 export type { PackageJson, AllPackageInfo } from './types';
-export { default as getDependencies } from './getDependencies';
+export { getDependencies } from './getDependencies';
 export { default as findGitRoot } from './findGitRoot';
 export { default as findRepoDeps } from './findRepoDeps';
 export { default as getAllPackageInfo } from './getAllPackageInfo';
diff --git a/scripts/monorepo/src/index.js b/scripts/monorepo/src/index.js
index bfbd2af551f6ec..0b55f2b4196bae 100644
--- a/scripts/monorepo/src/index.js
+++ b/scripts/monorepo/src/index.js
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 module.exports = {
-  getDependencies: require('./getDependencies'),
   findGitRoot: require('./findGitRoot'),
   findRepoDeps: require('./findRepoDeps'),
   getAllPackageInfo: require('./getAllPackageInfo'),
   eslintConstants: require('./eslint-constants'),
+  ...require('./getDependencies'),
   ...require('./isConvergedPackage'),
   ...require('./getAffectedPackages'),
   ...require('./getNthCommit'),
diff --git a/scripts/projects-test/src/packPackages.ts b/scripts/projects-test/src/packPackages.ts
index 6d458ac172ef63..30176ff5ccb58e 100644
--- a/scripts/projects-test/src/packPackages.ts
+++ b/scripts/projects-test/src/packPackages.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import path from 'path';
 
+import { getDependencies } from '@fluentui/scripts-monorepo';
 import { sh } from '@fluentui/scripts-utils';
-import { PackageGraph } from '@lerna/package-graph';
-import { Project } from '@lerna/project';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 
 import { createTempDir, shEcho } from './utils';
@@ -12,17 +11,6 @@ type PackedPackages = Record<string, string>;
 /** Shared packed packages between tests since they're not modified by any test */
 let packedPackages: PackedPackages;
 
-function flattenPackageGraph(rootPackages: string[], projectGraph: PackageGraph, packageList: string[] = []): string[] {
-  rootPackages.forEach(packageName => {
-    packageList.push(packageName);
-
-    // NOTE: we need to use Array.from instead of spread to new array because v0 packages have target `es5` thus this would trigger TS error
-    flattenPackageGraph(Array.from(projectGraph.get(packageName).localDependencies.keys()), projectGraph, packageList);
-  });
-
-  return packageList.sort().filter((v, i, a) => a.indexOf(v) === i);
-}
-
 export async function addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(testProjectDir: string, isTemplateJson?: boolean) {
   const jsonPath = path.resolve(testProjectDir, isTemplateJson ? 'template.json' : 'package.json');
   const json = fs.readJSONSync(jsonPath);
@@ -36,11 +24,7 @@ export async function addResolutionPathsForProjectPackages(testProjectDir: strin
   fs.writeJSONSync(jsonPath, json, { spaces: 2 });
 }
 
-export async function packProjectPackages(
-  logger: Function,
-  lernaRoot: string,
-  rootPackages: string[],
-): Promise<PackedPackages> {
+export async function packProjectPackages(logger: Function, project: string): Promise<PackedPackages> {
   if (packedPackages) {
     logger(`✔️ Packages already packed`);
     return packedPackages;
@@ -48,16 +32,15 @@ export async function packProjectPackages(
 
   packedPackages = {};
 
-  const lernaProject = new Project(lernaRoot);
-  // this is the list of package.json contents with some extra properties
-  const projectPackages = await lernaProject.getPackages();
-
-  logger(`✔️ Used lerna config: ${lernaProject.rootConfigLocation}`);
-
-  const projectPackagesGraph = new PackageGraph(projectPackages, 'dependencies');
-  const requiredPackages = flattenPackageGraph(rootPackages, projectPackagesGraph);
+  const { dependencies: projectDependencies, projectGraph } = await getDependencies(project);
+  // add provided package to be packaged
+  projectDependencies.unshift({
+    name: project,
+    dependencyType: 'dependencies',
+    isTopLevel: true,
+  });
 
-  logger(`✔️ Following packages will be packed:${requiredPackages.map(p => `\n${' '.repeat(30)}- ${p}`)}`);
+  logger(`✔️ Following packages will be packed:${projectDependencies.map(pkg => `\n${' '.repeat(30)}- ${pkg.name}`)}`);
 
   const tmpDirectory = createTempDir('project-packed-');
   logger(`✔️ Temporary directory for packed packages was created: ${tmpDirectory}`);
@@ -66,19 +49,20 @@ export async function packProjectPackages(
   await shEcho('npm --version', tmpDirectory);
 
   await Promise.all(
-    requiredPackages.map(async packageName => {
-      const packageInfo = projectPackages.find(pkg => pkg.name === packageName);
+    projectDependencies.map(async projectConfig => {
+      const packageName = projectConfig.name;
+      const packageInfo = projectGraph.nodes[packageName].package;
       if (!packageInfo) {
         throw new Error(`Package ${packageName} doesn't exist`);
       }
 
       const packagePath = packageInfo.location;
-      const packageMain: string | undefined = packageInfo.get('main');
+      const packageMain = packageInfo.get('main') as string | undefined;
       const entryPointPath = packageMain ? path.join(packagePath, packageMain) : '';
       if (!fs.existsSync(entryPointPath)) {
         throw new Error(
-          `Package ${packageName} does not appear to have been built yet. Please ensure that root package(s) ` +
-            `${rootPackages.join(', ')} are listed in devDependencies of the package running the test.`,
+          `Package ${packageName} does not appear to have been built yet.` +
+            `Please ensure that package:"${project}" has properly defined dependencies in its package.json`,
         );
       }
 
diff --git a/typings/lerna/index.d.ts b/typings/lerna/index.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..791c6ee22eb007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/typings/lerna/index.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+// Type definitions for lerna 7.0.0
+
+// NOTE: types taken from @see https://github.com/lerna/lerna/blob/main/libs/core/src/lib/project-graph-with-packages.ts
+// ISSUE: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/3851
+
+declare module 'lerna/utils' {
+  import type { ProjectFileMap, ProjectGraph, ProjectGraphDependency, ProjectGraphProjectNode } from '@nx/devkit';
+
+  interface RawManifest {
+    name: string;
+    version: string;
+    description?: string;
+    private?: boolean;
+    bin?: Record<string, string> | string;
+    scripts?: Record<string, string>;
+    dependencies?: Record<string, string>;
+    devDependencies?: Record<string, string>;
+    optionalDependencies?: Record<string, string>;
+    peerDependencies?: Record<string, string>;
+    publishConfig?: Record<'directory' | 'registry' | 'tag', string>;
+    workspaces?: string[];
+    nx?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    gitHead?: string;
+    lerna?: RawManifestLernaConfig;
+  }
+
+  interface RawManifestLernaConfig {
+    command?: {
+      publish?: {
+        directory?: string;
+        assets?: AssetDefinition[];
+      };
+    };
+  }
+  type AssetDefinition = string | { from: string; to: string };
+
+  interface Package extends Omit<RawManifest, 'lerna' | 'nx' | 'gitHead' | 'workspaces'> {
+    /**
+     * Map-like retrieval of arbitrary values from package.json
+     */
+    get(key: string): unknown;
+    binLocation: string;
+
+    resolved: Record<string, unknown>;
+    /**
+     * path to package.json
+     */
+    manifestLocation: string;
+    location: string;
+    lernaConfig: RawManifest['lerna'] | undefined;
+  }
+
+  type ExtendedNpaResult = {
+    workspaceSpec?: string;
+    workspaceAlias?: string;
+  };
+
+  interface ProjectGraphProjectNodeWithPackage extends ProjectGraphProjectNode {
+    package: Package | null;
+  }
+  interface ProjectGraphWorkspacePackageDependency extends ProjectGraphDependency {
+    targetVersionMatchesDependencyRequirement: boolean;
+    targetResolvedNpaResult: ExtendedNpaResult;
+    dependencyCollection: 'dependencies' | 'devDependencies' | 'optionalDependencies'; // lerna doesn't manage peer dependencies
+  }
+  export interface ProjectGraphWithPackages extends ProjectGraph {
+    nodes: Record<string, ProjectGraphProjectNodeWithPackage>;
+    localPackageDependencies: Record<string, ProjectGraphWorkspacePackageDependency[]>;
+  }
+
+  export function detectProjects(): Promise<{
+    projectGraph: ProjectGraphWithPackages;
+    projectFileMap: ProjectFileMap;
+  }>;
+}
diff --git a/typings/lerna/tsconfig.json b/typings/lerna/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c6f8b0a935c4c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/typings/lerna/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {},
+  "include": ["*.d.ts"]
+}
diff --git a/typings/tsconfig.json b/typings/tsconfig.json
index d2324f1f1c570d..66aabec9b543cb 100644
--- a/typings/tsconfig.json
+++ b/typings/tsconfig.json
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
     },
     {
       "path": "./find-free-port/tsconfig.json"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "./lerna/tsconfig.json"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 2a174e8a2c7087..c6da86f241e4f7 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2312,59 +2312,6 @@
     validate-npm-package-name "5.0.0"
     yargs-parser "20.2.4"
 
-"@lerna/package-graph@6.4.1":
-  version "6.4.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@lerna/package-graph/-/package-graph-6.4.1.tgz#7a18024d531f0bd88609944e572b4861f0f8868f"
-  integrity sha512-fQvc59stRYOqxT3Mn7g/yI9/Kw5XetJoKcW5l8XeqKqcTNDURqKnN0qaNBY6lTTLOe4cR7gfXF2l1u3HOz0qEg==
-  dependencies:
-    "@lerna/prerelease-id-from-version" "6.4.1"
-    "@lerna/validation-error" "6.4.1"
-    npm-package-arg "8.1.1"
-    npmlog "^6.0.2"
-    semver "^7.3.4"
-
-"@lerna/package@6.4.1":
-  version "6.4.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@lerna/package/-/package-6.4.1.tgz#ebbd4c5f58f4b6cf77019271a686be9585272a3b"
-  integrity sha512-TrOah58RnwS9R8d3+WgFFTu5lqgZs7M+e1dvcRga7oSJeKscqpEK57G0xspvF3ycjfXQwRMmEtwPmpkeEVLMzA==
-  dependencies:
-    load-json-file "^6.2.0"
-    npm-package-arg "8.1.1"
-    write-pkg "^4.0.0"
-
-"@lerna/prerelease-id-from-version@6.4.1":
-  version "6.4.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@lerna/prerelease-id-from-version/-/prerelease-id-from-version-6.4.1.tgz#65eb1835cdfd112783eea6b596812c64f535386b"
-  integrity sha512-uGicdMFrmfHXeC0FTosnUKRgUjrBJdZwrmw7ZWMb5DAJGOuTzrvJIcz5f0/eL3XqypC/7g+9DoTgKjX3hlxPZA==
-  dependencies:
-    semver "^7.3.4"
-
-"@lerna/project@6.4.1":
-  version "6.4.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@lerna/project/-/project-6.4.1.tgz#0519323aa8bde5b73fc0bf1c428385a556a445f0"
-  integrity sha512-BPFYr4A0mNZ2jZymlcwwh7PfIC+I6r52xgGtJ4KIrIOB6mVKo9u30dgYJbUQxmSuMRTOnX7PJZttQQzSda4gEg==
-  dependencies:
-    "@lerna/package" "6.4.1"
-    "@lerna/validation-error" "6.4.1"
-    cosmiconfig "^7.0.0"
-    dedent "^0.7.0"
-    dot-prop "^6.0.1"
-    glob-parent "^5.1.1"
-    globby "^11.0.2"
-    js-yaml "^4.1.0"
-    load-json-file "^6.2.0"
-    npmlog "^6.0.2"
-    p-map "^4.0.0"
-    resolve-from "^5.0.0"
-    write-json-file "^4.3.0"
-
-"@lerna/validation-error@6.4.1":
-  version "6.4.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@lerna/validation-error/-/validation-error-6.4.1.tgz#2cab92c2be395158c3d65fa57ddb73892617d7e8"
-  integrity sha512-fxfJvl3VgFd7eBfVMRX6Yal9omDLs2mcGKkNYeCEyt4Uwlz1B5tPAXyk/sNMfkKV2Aat/mlK5tnY13vUrMKkyA==
-  dependencies:
-    npmlog "^6.0.2"
-
 "@linaria/babel-preset@^3.0.0-beta.22", "@linaria/babel-preset@^3.0.0-beta.23":
   version "3.0.0-beta.23"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@linaria/babel-preset/-/babel-preset-3.0.0-beta.23.tgz#1e8c32c85495fdd9db4d3f1ccd4d29fe17cb1d16"
@@ -5335,28 +5282,6 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/lerna-alias/-/lerna-alias-3.0.0.tgz#e4d70f75bad9f5a7b697f76b7d7b3fa97aa57844"
   integrity sha512-EfwEzSWxAxrZgUJT5sECi4RPFCIgOm/K9e5EWXp2hR9H6wzV1QIBgjGtGEl/OpOCcglNWzmqrVRX/qjvNwli9Q==
 
-"@types/lerna__package-graph@5.1.0":
-  version "5.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/lerna__package-graph/-/lerna__package-graph-5.1.0.tgz#070b88cec0c7a51e1f80f4b3a97490491f81a92f"
-  integrity sha512-/n50KTl3cjvjF70th6DXsAicYV+MBGkjcRuVZn1cAeQivAg5TS9aYiUWuGY1S6v7i8FdPF+Ysf5YYUvniZmyIQ==
-  dependencies:
-    "@types/lerna__package" "*"
-    "@types/npm-package-arg" "*"
-
-"@types/lerna__package@*":
-  version "5.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/lerna__package/-/lerna__package-5.1.0.tgz#870a1fa82356dc9d5cd2a60d8deb45a54755fdc5"
-  integrity sha512-afNRkz6zwZZRR/5JRZ48R2t7kekQcX2Dq0JMvnsh0NiAVOdP9PYghNGhwiIdBau3cFmdU7wwxXupWAnzC4rZSQ==
-  dependencies:
-    "@types/npm-package-arg" "*"
-
-"@types/lerna__project@5.1.0":
-  version "5.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/lerna__project/-/lerna__project-5.1.0.tgz#0418629d42a5b8f35b7ad95fc944fc54e8c9b1af"
-  integrity sha512-J41EBQZOD7CL7Aqwriifb63paXePjBBkDEfGdTGs65Yrn0624ekNcLRG8UH+4mfbcog4zCoaHZHMjcSMytEzjA==
-  dependencies:
-    "@types/lerna__package" "*"
-
 "@types/loader-utils@2.0.3":
   version "2.0.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/loader-utils/-/loader-utils-2.0.3.tgz#fbc2337358f8f4a7dc532ac0a3646c74275edf2d"
@@ -5447,11 +5372,6 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/normalize-package-data/-/normalize-package-data-2.4.0.tgz#e486d0d97396d79beedd0a6e33f4534ff6b4973e"
   integrity sha512-f5j5b/Gf71L+dbqxIpQ4Z2WlmI/mPJ0fOkGGmFgtb6sAu97EPczzbS3/tJKxmcYDj55OX6ssqwDAWOHIYDRDGA==
 
-"@types/npm-package-arg@*":
-  version "6.1.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/npm-package-arg/-/npm-package-arg-6.1.1.tgz#9e2d8adc04d39824a3d9f36f738010a3f7da3c1a"
-  integrity sha512-452/1Kp9IdM/oR10AyqAgZOxUt7eLbm+EMJ194L6oarMYdZNiFIFAOJ7IIr0OrZXTySgfHjJezh2oiyk2kc3ag==
-
 "@types/npmlog@^4.1.2":
   version "4.1.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/npmlog/-/npmlog-4.1.2.tgz#d070fe6a6b78755d1092a3dc492d34c3d8f871c4"
@@ -10661,11 +10581,6 @@ detect-indent@^5.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/detect-indent/-/detect-indent-5.0.0.tgz#3871cc0a6a002e8c3e5b3cf7f336264675f06b9d"
   integrity sha1-OHHMCmoALow+Wzz38zYmRnXwa50=
 
-detect-indent@^6.0.0:
-  version "6.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/detect-indent/-/detect-indent-6.1.0.tgz#592485ebbbf6b3b1ab2be175c8393d04ca0d57e6"
-  integrity sha512-reYkTUJAZb9gUuZ2RvVCNhVHdg62RHnJ7WJl8ftMi4diZ6NWlciOzQN88pUhSELEwflJht4oQDv0F0BMlwaYtA==
-
 detect-libc@^1.0.2:
   version "1.0.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/detect-libc/-/detect-libc-1.0.3.tgz#fa137c4bd698edf55cd5cd02ac559f91a4c4ba9b"
@@ -10970,13 +10885,6 @@ dot-prop@^5.1.0:
   dependencies:
     is-obj "^2.0.0"
 
-dot-prop@^6.0.1:
-  version "6.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/dot-prop/-/dot-prop-6.0.1.tgz#fc26b3cf142b9e59b74dbd39ed66ce620c681083"
-  integrity sha512-tE7ztYzXHIeyvc7N+hR3oi7FIbf/NIjVP9hmAt3yMXzrQ072/fpjGLx2GxNxGxUl5V73MEqYzioOMoVhGMJ5cA==
-  dependencies:
-    is-obj "^2.0.0"
-
 dotenv-expand@^5.1.0:
   version "5.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/dotenv-expand/-/dotenv-expand-5.1.0.tgz#3fbaf020bfd794884072ea26b1e9791d45a629f0"
@@ -17327,7 +17235,7 @@ listr2@^3.8.3:
     through "^2.3.8"
     wrap-ansi "^7.0.0"
 
-load-json-file@6.2.0, load-json-file@^6.2.0:
+load-json-file@6.2.0:
   version "6.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/load-json-file/-/load-json-file-6.2.0.tgz#5c7770b42cafa97074ca2848707c61662f4251a1"
   integrity sha512-gUD/epcRms75Cw8RT1pUdHugZYM5ce64ucs2GEISABwkRsOQr0q2wm/MV2TKThycIe5e0ytRweW2RZxclogCdQ==
@@ -23134,13 +23042,6 @@ sort-keys@^2.0.0:
   dependencies:
     is-plain-obj "^1.0.0"
 
-sort-keys@^4.0.0:
-  version "4.2.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sort-keys/-/sort-keys-4.2.0.tgz#6b7638cee42c506fff8c1cecde7376d21315be18"
-  integrity sha512-aUYIEU/UviqPgc8mHR6IW1EGxkAXpeRETYcrzg8cLAvUPZcpAlleSXHV2mY7G12GphSH6Gzv+4MMVSSkbdteHg==
-  dependencies:
-    is-plain-obj "^2.0.0"
-
 source-list-map@^2.0.0:
   version "2.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/source-list-map/-/source-list-map-2.0.1.tgz#3993bd873bfc48479cca9ea3a547835c7c154b34"
@@ -26286,19 +26187,7 @@ write-json-file@^3.2.0:
     sort-keys "^2.0.0"
     write-file-atomic "^2.4.2"
 
-write-json-file@^4.3.0:
-  version "4.3.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/write-json-file/-/write-json-file-4.3.0.tgz#908493d6fd23225344af324016e4ca8f702dd12d"
-  integrity sha512-PxiShnxf0IlnQuMYOPPhPkhExoCQuTUNPOa/2JWCYTmBquU9njyyDuwRKN26IZBlp4yn1nt+Agh2HOOBl+55HQ==
-  dependencies:
-    detect-indent "^6.0.0"
-    graceful-fs "^4.1.15"
-    is-plain-obj "^2.0.0"
-    make-dir "^3.0.0"
-    sort-keys "^4.0.0"
-    write-file-atomic "^3.0.0"
-
-write-pkg@4.0.0, write-pkg@^4.0.0:
+write-pkg@4.0.0:
   version "4.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/write-pkg/-/write-pkg-4.0.0.tgz#675cc04ef6c11faacbbc7771b24c0abbf2a20039"
   integrity sha512-v2UQ+50TNf2rNHJ8NyWttfm/EJUBWMJcx6ZTYZr6Qp52uuegWw/lBkCtCbnYZEmPRNL61m+u67dAmGxo+HTULA==