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Architecture Matters - PART 9: Customers are saying "Use What We Have" for Project Management

Mike Taylor: May 13, 2026 9:31:37 AM

Something has shifted in the customer conversations we’re having... The "stay on the Microsoft platform" message isn't coming from PMOs or Project...

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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...

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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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