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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 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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Mockup of the Power Platform Admin Center governance report: KPIs for apps, flows, agents and policy violations, resources per environment and DLP risk by severity

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Power Platform Governance 2026: From the CoE Starter Kit to the Admin Center

Renke Holert: Jun 17, 2026, 12:30:50 AM

For years, the CoE Starter Kit was the Swiss Army knife of Power Platform governance. Microsoft is now building these capabilities natively into the...

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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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Project management and artificial intelligence in the PMO with Microsoft and Atlassian

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Project Management with Artificial Intelligence from Microsoft and Atlassian (AI) in the PMO

Renke Holert: Jun 7, 2026, 11:47:25 AM

How can AI already support my work as a project manager or in the project management office today? What can Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Project,...

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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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