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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.

Community, Maker Movement, People Simon Owen Community, Maker Movement, People Simon Owen

Community

In this post I explore ‘Community’ and how we can use them to help us build adoption and enablement. In this blog post I describe:

  • What ‘community is’

  • Where it fits in helping us achieve our goal of growing adoption and enablement

  • How technology, process, and people, come together to enable community behaviours and feelings, supported by the culture we need to establish to help it to happen

  • What different stages of community / platform might look like and where it aligns with the value model

  • How we can generate traffic INTO the community to attract more members and traffic WITHIN the community to provide value, and fun, to it’s members

Come and jump in to learn more!

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