Renke Holert

Renke Holert is a PMO/VMO and Managing Director at Holert. He helps companies implement project and portfolio management solutions using Microsoft 365 and Atlassian Cloud. His projects include the implementation of the market-leading PPM standard software Altus and Projectum xPM for KUKA, Amer Sports, KWS, LAPP, and SteelcoBelimed. In his free time, he is an avid beach volleyball player.

Power Platform admin center, environment Behavior settings: the model-driven app release channel dropdown with the options Auto, Monthly channel and Semi-annual channel

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Microsoft Retires Release Waves: How Your PMO Plans Platform Change in 2026

Renke Holert: Sep 5, 2026, 8:33:49 AM

For years, PMOs running their project portfolio on the Microsoft Power Platform had a comfortable rhythm: twice a year a release wave landed, someone read the release plan, and the team spent an afternoon deciding what to adopt. That rhythm is being...

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Project Governance Explained: What It Actually Involves

Renke Holert: Sep 3, 2026, 9:35:54 AM

"Who actually decides here?" – that single question often determines a project's success or failure more than any project plan does. Project...

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Abstract banner showing four ascending translucent tiers connected by data lines, representing the four AI agent autonomy levels a PMO has to govern.

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AI Agents in the PMO: How to Decide What Each One Is Allowed to Do

Renke Holert: Aug 15, 2026, 1:17:47 PM

Nobody signed off on an AI rollout, yet agents are already in the portfolio: Planner Agent drafts status reports, Microsoft 365 Copilot summarises...

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Microsoft Project Online shutdown – alternatives and migration

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Microsoft is discontinuing Project Online - what are the best alternatives?

Renke Holert: Aug 15, 2026, 10:23:22 AM

Microsoft Project Online will be shut down on September 30, 2026 – less than two months from now. Any organization that has not migrated yet needs a...

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Microsoft Planner Premium Plans

Renke Holert: Aug 15, 2026, 10:05:22 AM

Microsoft Planner Premium(Planner Plan 1 and Project and Planner Plan 3/5), formerly Microsoft Project for the Web, is a modern and user-friendly...

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Microsoft Scout - autonomous autopilot agent in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Build)

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Microsoft Scout in the PMO: When the project assistant works autonomously

Renke Holert: Aug 12, 2026, 7:46:30 AM

At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled Scout, its first “autopilot” agent: not a chat helper waiting for prompts, but an autonomous agent that runs...

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VIBE Project Management: Control PM Tools with AI Commands

Renke Holert: Jun 7, 2026, 12:24:11 PM

VIBE Coding has changed software development - developers give their AI assistant instructions in natural language instead of writing code line by...

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Copilot Cowork creates Outlook appointments for Planner tasks

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Copilot Cowork: What the New AI Feature Means for Project Management

Renke Holert: Jun 7, 2026, 12:23:43 PM

With Copilot Cowork, Microsoft is bringing a new dimension to AI-supported collaboration: instead of individual prompts, project managers and PMOs...

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Jira Business Project created with Atlassian Rovo

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Comparison of Microsoft Planner Basic, SharePoint Lists, Planner Premium, Loop and Jira Business Projects

Renke Holert: Nov 29, 2025, 8:33:18 AM

What are the differences between the well-known task management solutions from Microsoft and Atlassian? See the differences between Planner Basic and...

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Send tasks from Microsoft Project to Microsoft Planner with Project2Planner

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Share tasks from Microsoft Project with your team in Microsoft Planner

Renke Holert: Sep 1, 2025, 11:15:00 AM

If you are working as a project manager with the Microsoft Project Desktop App (MS Project) and your team is using Microsoft Planner it can be...

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