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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...

Project governance dashboard with KPIs, roles/RACI matrix, risk exposure and stage-gate pipeline (gates 1 to 3) in Holert design

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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 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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