Mike Taylor

Mike is the Founder and CEO of Innovative-e, his most recently led Microsoft-centric $MM company. Mike began his career writing PPM software for NASA and has extensive experience as a PPM practitioner, community contributor/writer, and process & app producer. Mike lives in his hometown of Merritt Island, FL

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Architecture Matters PART 8: The end of Command and Control Project Management

Mike Taylor: Apr 20, 2026 11:00:00 AM

For years, project management tool vendors have chased features around task and resource management: all requiring top-down command-and-control compliance just to function. No adoption? No value. That's the brittle reality they built.

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Architecture Matters PART 7: AI ROI Comes from Architecture

Mike Taylor: Apr 14, 2026 9:22:15 AM

There’s endless discussion about AI productivity... ✔️ Writing emails faster. ✔️ Summarizing meetings. ✔️ Generating documents. Useful? Sure. But the...

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Architecture Matters – PART 6: It’s time to rethink project and work management technologies

Mike Taylor: Apr 8, 2026 10:00:00 AM

For decades, organizations approached Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) the same way:

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Architecture Matters - PART 5: Project Management Belongs in the Flow of Work

Mike Taylor: Mar 3, 2026 2:30:00 PM

Most organizations don’t decide to do project management outside their flow of work. It just… happens. If your company is Microsoft 365–centric,...

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Architecture Matters — PART 4: Why Platform-Based PPM Delivers Higher Value & Lower TCO Than SaaS

Mike Taylor: Feb 20, 2026 10:00:00 AM

Most PPM conversations still start with the same question: “Which tool has the most features?” For many organizations, that’s increasingly the wrong...

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Architecture matters — PART 3: Where project management data lives

Mike Taylor: Feb 10, 2026 3:15:00 PM

The most misunderstood decision for PPM tech today ISN’T FEATURES.

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Architecture matters - PART 2: How it shows up in project management

Mike Taylor: Jan 30, 2026 10:00:00 AM

In my last post, I shared why platform-first vs tool-first matters. Here’s what that looks like on any typical day... If your project management...

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Architecture Matters — Especially In Project Management.

Mike Taylor: Jan 22, 2026 12:30:00 PM

The Leaning Tower of Pisa didn’t fail because of bad craftsmanship. It failed because the foundation was wrong.

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Safe Harbor: Where Do You Turn When the Storm Hits?

Mike Taylor: Sep 8, 2025 11:17:28 AM

In business, as in life, there are moments when the world shifts beneath your feet. A sudden regulation change. Disruptive forces like AI. A market...

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Your PPM Future: Platform vs. Product

Mike Taylor: May 29, 2025 10:21:01 AM

As organizations grow increasingly invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, choosing the right long-term strategy for project and work management becomes...

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