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E7 Licence in real life
E7 Licence in real life

Microsoft licensing pages are marketing — until you've actually switched a licence on in your own tenant and used it for real, you don't actually know what it does.

In March 2026 Microsoft a new enterprise license - the E7 license - It reached ‘General Availability’ GA for organisations to buy and use on the 1st May… But what is it? What does it do? Who actually has it and has used it…. Me!

Come with me and learn with me through hands on configuration and experimentation!

Scalable Governance v2
Scalable Governance v2

Not all solutions are the same complexity, criticality, size so we can’t, or more importantly shouldn’t, look to govern them all in a single way. Small solutions should be governed lightly, more critical or sensitive solutions should be governed robustly.

In v2 of this scalable governance model this model gives an improved method of defining a common language and a standard way of assessing and defining action around different scales of ideas, use cases, and solutions, whilst giving flexibility to apply it to any organisation, in any industry, at any scale.

Empower Your World - Blog Index and Plan
Empower Your World - Blog Index and Plan

The thoughts and approach to a holistic enablement strategy for Low-Code in any organisation considering Platform, Process, and People!

This post breaks down the key areas, modules, and the blog posts I’ve written (in black) or plan to write (in orange) and will act as an ongoing index for easy navigation to the topics that interest you.

Maker Movement, People, Leaders Simon Owen Maker Movement, People, Leaders Simon Owen

Leaders

‘Leaders’ is the first, or last (as I explain in the post), step of the ‘Maker Movement’ we’re going to delve into. They’re critical to our success and to the success of inspiring and directing the organisation to help them understand what the platform is, what it does, and why it’s important to THEM, and the organisation. But there are different types of leaders! Who? Well read this post to understand that, and how Backstage Leadership can be used to drive our value hypothesis!

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