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09/16/2026

Being the person who "knows how everything works" can feel like job security.

Until everyone needs you for everything.

Tribal knowledge creates some strange dynamics inside organizations. The people who hold it can become incredibly valuable, but also overloaded. Other employees can't help because they don't know what the expert knows. And documenting or training someone else becomes one more thing the already-busy expert doesn't have time to do.

Eventually, you can end up with a system that isn't particularly good for anyone involved.

And the risk isn't just what happens if that person leaves.

We took a closer look at how tribal knowledge develops, why it can be surprisingly difficult to unwind, and what organizations can do about it.

Learn how tribal knowledge creates bottlenecks, slows down work, and puts critical expertise at risk, plus ways to reduce dependency.

09/14/2026

Project Online retires September 30.
On October 7, we get to talk about what happened next.

Our CEO Tim Runcie will be joining a panel of Microsoft MVPs and project management experts for MPUG's Life After Project Online community roundtable.

This isn't a presentation about what organizations should have done before retirement. It's an open conversation about where everyone actually landed.

What did migrations look like in practice?
What worked? What didn't?
What problems are teams still trying to solve?
And what does the Microsoft project management landscape look like from here?

If you've spent the last year navigating the Project Online transition, this should be a very interesting conversation.

Check it out:

Microsoft MVPs and MPUG community members discuss life after Project Online’s retirement, sharing migration lessons and answering questions about wha...

09/10/2026

PMI recently raised an interesting question about AI agents and project teams:
Where does an AI agent belong on a RACI?

Their answer is pretty straightforward. An agent can be Responsible for a bounded task, but Accountability should stay with a human.

It's a useful distinction as organizations start giving AI more than drafting and summarizing tasks.

The more independently an agent can act, the more important it becomes to define who reviews its work, who approves higher-risk actions, when something gets escalated, and ultimately, who owns the outcome.

AI may change who's doing the work.

It doesn't eliminate the need for someone to own it.

Share in the comments: What’s one project task you’d be comfortable assigning to an AI agent today? Ask any project manager to draw a RACI grid and they won't hesitate: one row per task, one Accountable name per row. The model hasn't changed.

09/09/2026

"Where should we save this?"

It's a simple question that causes a surprising amount of chaos.

Because the better questions are:
Who owns this information?
Who needs access to it?
How will people find it six months from now?
How does it need to be managed over time?

Once you answer those questions, choosing between OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint gets a lot easier.

Good file management isn't really about where files live. It's about making sure information is where people expect it to be when they need it.
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09/07/2026

Executives don't need to see everything you know. They need to see what matters.

That distinction matters when building Power BI reports for leadership.

More data doesn't necessarily create more clarity. A useful executive report surfaces the signals that deserve attention, provides enough context to understand them, and makes it easier to decide what happens next.

The goal isn't to prove how much data you have. It's to help someone make a better decision with it.

This free webinar looks at how to make that shift in Power BI.

Move beyond dashboards that simply display data. Learn how to design Power BI reports that surface the signals executives need, communicate insights clearly, and drive faster, more confident decisions.

09/05/2026

25 days until Project Online retires.

At this point, if your organization is still trying to figure out how to squeeze a full migration into the remaining time, it may be worth asking a different question:

What do we absolutely need to save?

Years of project schedules. Configuration. Reports. Project sites. Workflows. Historical data.

Those assets may matter long after Project Online itself is gone.

Rapid Rescue is designed for organizations that need to shift from migration mode to preservation mode, securing what's important now so the bigger technology decisions can happen later.

25 days isn't much time for a migration.
But it's still time to act.

Rapid Rescue helps protect your critical Project Online data and assets when you don’t have enough time to migrate before retirement.

09/03/2026

The cheapest time to discover a problem with an app is before you build it.

That's what makes prototyping so valuable.

Before development starts, you can pressure-test requirements, think through user flows, explore screen layouts, consider the data model, and uncover questions nobody thought to ask yet.

Copilot can make that process even faster.

Instead of jumping straight from "we need an app" to development, you can use AI to help turn an idea into something concrete enough to evaluate, discuss, and improve.

This free webinar walks through how to use Copilot during the Power Apps prototyping process before you commit to the build.

In this session, we’ll explore how Copilot can be used as a practical design and prototyping partner before you start building a Power App. Attendees will learn how to use AI to think through app ideas, user flows, data structure, and layouts.

09/02/2026

Microsoft continues to make Copilot less of a standalone AI tool and more of a place to get work done.

The latest example: AI Skills Navigator is now available through Copilot's Learning Agent.

Users can ask what they want to learn and get recommendations for relevant AI learning content without leaving Copilot to search elsewhere.

It's another relatively small update that points to a much bigger direction for Copilot.

Microsoft is steadily bringing more of what people need to do their jobs into the Copilot experience itself, including learning how to work differently with AI.

Start with a question for the Learning Agent in Copilot and get recommendations from AI Skills Navigator, helping you find the right next step whenever you...

08/31/2026

If you're still on Project Online and you know you're not going to complete your migration by September 30, this is for you.

You may be out of time for the migration you originally planned.

You're not necessarily out of time to protect what matters.

Rapid Rescue is designed to help organizations preserve critical Project Online assets, including schedules, configurations, resources, project sites, reports, and workflows, before access disappears.

Then, with those assets secured, you can make a thoughtful decision about what comes next instead of choosing your next PPM solution based on what can be implemented fastest.

The deadline should determine when you protect your data.

It shouldn't determine what technology your organization uses for the next several years.

Rapid Rescue helps protect your critical Project Online data and assets when you don’t have enough time to migrate before retirement.

08/28/2026

Sometimes the problem isn't your team.
It's the amount you're asking them to do.

A new implementation lands on top of existing responsibilities. A critical project needs skills you don't have internally. A deadline moves up, but your available capacity doesn't.

The instinct may be to hire.

But not every resource problem requires another permanent position.

Staff augmentation can give organizations access to the capacity or specialized expertise they need for a particular moment, while allowing the internal team to stay focused on the work they're best positioned to do.

Explore where that model can make sense and how to use it strategically.

Learn how staff augmentation can help your team access expertise, scale resources, and keep projects on track efficiently.