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Building Azure That Survives the Real World — with Mike Martin [MVP] Azure architecture looks easy when everything works.The real test starts when dependencies fail, regions become unavailable, traffic spikes, assumptions turn ou www.spreaker.com/episode/building-a…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 28/09/2026

Why Your Production Schedule Is Wrong Before It Even Starts Your production schedule can look perfectly reasonable when it leaves the ERP system. Order dates line up, routing times make sense, capacity appears available, www.spreaker.com/episode/why-your-p…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 24/09/2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Without the Hype: Adoption, Governance & Getting Your Tenant Ready with Paul Keijzers [MVP] Microsoft 365 Copilot can help people find information and get work done faster, but its answers depend on the content and permissions already in an organizatio www.spreaker.com

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M365.Show @m365.show · 18/09/2026

Content Understanding & Document AI - Simply Explained Invoices, contracts, receipts, forms, scanned PDFs, and email attachments contain valuable business information — but most automation still struggles to turn www.spreaker.com/episode/content-un…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 18/09/2026

The 'Buy vs Build' Question Is the Wrong Question: Why Ownership Is What You're Really Deciding Every IT project starts with the same familiar debate: should we buy a package or build it ourselves? The problem is that this question is a trap. Buying still www.spreaker.com/episode/the-buy-vs

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M365.Show @m365.show · 17/09/2026

The Estimate Is Not a Commitment: Why Deadlines Become Fictions Before the Work Even Starts Estimates are the quiet battleground of business-IT alignment. Business hears a number and turns it into a budget, a roadmap, a promise to the board. IT knows t www.spreaker.com/episode/the-estima…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 16/09/2026

The Budget Is the Architecture: Why Funding Decisions Shape Your IT Systems More Than Any Design Every IT project starts with a budget decision, but most business leaders treat the budget as a purely financial constraint—while IT teams treat it as a myste www.spreaker.com/episode/the-budget-

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M365.Show @m365.show · 16/09/2026

Can Value Stream Mapping Become a Live Data Model? Value Stream Mapping has been one of the most useful tools in Lean Manufacturing for understanding how material, information, and decisions move through a produ www.spreaker.com/episode/can-value-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 15/09/2026

Constraint-Based Scheduling: The Architecture That Makes Production Plans Real Your ERP says the customer order ships on Friday. The work order is released. The routing looks correct. Capacity appears available. Everything looks fine in th www.spreaker.com/episode/constraint…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 15/09/2026

A Machine Goes Down. How Should Your Production Plan React? Discover how your production plan should react when a machine goes down. Learn practical strategies for capacity loss, order impact, and rescheduling. www.m365.fm/production-plan-reaction

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M365.Show @m365.show · 15/09/2026

APS Software vs. ERP: What's the Difference? Manufacturers often rely on ERP systems to manage orders, materials, inventory, purchasing, production orders, and financial transactions. But when a machine go www.spreaker.com/episode/aps-softwa…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 14/09/2026

How Finite Capacity Scheduling Actually Works in Manufacturing Your ERP says the production order should finish next Thursday. The routing looks correct. Material is planned. Everything appears under control. Then you walk www.spreaker.com/episode/how-finite…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 14/09/2026

The 'No' Is a Hidden Yes: When IT Refusals Are Actually Prioritization Decisions IT's 'no' is rarely a refusal. It's a hidden yes—to keeping systems stable, to protecting security, to maintaining commitments already made. But when that log www.spreaker.com/episode/the-no-is-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 13/09/2026

The Integration Is an Organizational Chart: Why System Connections Fail Before a Single API Is Built When business leaders say 'we need to integrate these systems,' they usually mean 'make the data flow so we can see one truth.' IT teams hear a technical projec www.spreaker.com/episode/the-i

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M365.Show @m365.show · 12/09/2026

The Test Is the Spec: Why Your Requirements Are Only as Good as Your Tests Every requirement is a promise until it's a test. In this episode, we explore why automated tests are the only precise, unambiguous specification of what a syst www.spreaker.com/episode/the-test-i…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 11/09/2026

The Legacy System Is a Business Decision: Why Old IT Isn't a Technical Problem {"title":"The Legacy System Is a Business Decision: Why Old IT Isn't a Technical Problem","one_liner":"Legacy systems aren't just technical debt—they're a ser www.spreaker.com/episode/the-legacy…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 10/09/2026

The Shadow IT Paradox: When Business Buys Its Own Tools, IT Pays the Price In this episode, Mirko Peters takes on shadow IT—the unofficial spreadsheets, cloud apps, and small scripts that business teams adopt to get things done when www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 09/09/2026

The Workflow Is Not the Work: Why Automating the Diagram Can Preserve the Problem Organizations often ask IT to automate a workflow because the process has already been documented, approved, or drawn in a familiar diagram. That apparent clari www.spreaker.com/episode/the-workfl…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 08/09/2026

The Approval Is Not a Decision: How Sign-Offs Create False Certainty Organizations often treat approval as the end of a conversation. A business sponsor signs a requirement, a steering group endorses a design, or a process owner www.spreaker.com/episode/the-approv…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 07/09/2026

The Handoff Is a Lossy Compression Algorithm: How Meaning Disappears Between Business and IT A business request rarely reaches implementation in its original form. It passes through meetings, documents, tickets, models, estimates, and approvals, with ea www.spreaker.com/episode/the-handof…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 06/09/2026

The Business Rule That Outlived Its Reason: How Old Decisions Become New Constraints Business rules rarely arrive with an expiration date. A pricing threshold, approval step, customer classification, or reporting requirement may have been sensib www.spreaker.com/episode/the-busine…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 05/09/2026

The Decision Without an Owner: How Shared Accountability Creates Unowned Systems Organizations often say that important decisions are shared. In practice, shared responsibility can mean that no one has the authority, context, or obligation t www.spreaker.com/episode/the-decisi…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 04/09/2026

The Metric Becomes the Machine: How KPIs Quietly Redesign Business and IT Organizations often treat KPIs as neutral instruments for observing performance. In practice, a metric can become an instruction. Once targets influence bonuses www.spreaker.com/episode/the-metric…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 04/09/2026

How AI Changed Software Development Forever — Building the Agentic Future with Andre Baltieri [MVP] Artificial intelligence is changing software development at a speed we have rarely seen before.Developers have already moved from writing every line of code the www.spreaker.com/episode/how-ai

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M365.Show @m365.show · 03/09/2026

The Calendar Is Part of the Architecture: How Timing Rules Become Business Constraints Organizations often treat timing as an implementation detail: a nightly batch, a month-end cutoff, a two-day approval window, or a promise that a report will be www.spreaker.com/episode/the-calend…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 02/09/2026

The Exception Becomes the Process: How Temporary Workarounds Turn into Permanent Architecture Organizations often introduce exceptions with good reason: a customer needs special treatment, a deadline cannot move, or an existing system cannot support an i www.spreaker.com/episode/the-except…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 01/09/2026

The Queue Is a Strategy: How Work Intake Decides What the Business Gets Organizations often treat work intake as administration: collect requests, add them to a backlog, and ask teams to work through the list. But the intake queue i www.spreaker.com/episode/the-queue-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 31/08/2026

The Small Change Illusion: Why Minor Policy Decisions Create Major IT Work Business leaders often describe a policy change as simple: one new approval step, a slightly different eligibility rule, or a revised deadline. IT may then resp www.spreaker.com/episode/the-small-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 30/08/2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot: What Actually Makes People More Productive with Adrian Espes [MVP] Does Microsoft 365 Copilot really make people more productive?In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP Adrian Espes about www.spreaker.com/episode/microsoft-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 30/08/2026

The Cost of Keeping Options Open: When Business Ambiguity Becomes IT Complexity Organizations often delay difficult choices by asking IT to build something flexible enough to support every possible future. The intention is sensible: preserv www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cost-o…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 29/08/2026

How Microsoft 365 & Copilot Are Redesigning the Way We Work with Tracy van der Schyff [MVP] Microsoft 365 has given organizations more tools than ever to communicate, collaborate, automate, and manage information. Now Microsoft 365 Copilot adds an enti www.spreaker.com/episode/how-micros…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 29/08/2026

The Requirement Nobody Wrote: How Unstated Boundaries Become System Behavior Business and IT teams often spend hours discussing what a system should do while barely discussing what it must not do, who may use it, which exceptions are una www.spreaker.com/episode/the-requir…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 28/08/2026

The Org Chart in the System: When Team Boundaries Become Customer Friction Organizations often treat their structure as separate from their technology. In practice, reporting lines, departmental ownership, and budget boundaries frequen www.spreaker.com/episode/the-org-ch…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 28/08/2026

Stop Reinventing SPFx- Building Better SharePoint Solutions with PnP React Controls with Siddharth Vaghasia [MVP] Modern SharePoint development does not mean building every component from scratch. In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP www.spreaker.com

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M365.Show @m365.show · 27/08/2026

The Business Case After Approval: When the Assumptions That Won Funding Vanish from Delivery {"title":"The Business Case After Approval: When the Assumptions That Won Funding Vanish from Delivery","one_liner":"A business case may secure investment, but www.spreaker.com/episode/the-busine…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 26/08/2026

The Word "Done" Is a Contract: How Completion Definitions Shape Business Outcomes "Done" sounds like a simple status, but it is often an unspoken contract between business and IT. For a business stakeholder, done may mean a customer can compl www.spreaker.com/episode/the-word-d…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 25/08/2026

Microsoft Fabric End-to-End: From Raw Data to Business Decisions with Amit Chandak [MVP] Microsoft Fabric brings data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, governance and increasingly AI together in one platform. But what does an end-to-end www.spreaker.com/episode/microsoft-…

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M365.Show @m365.show · 25/08/2026

The Handoff Is Not a Neutral Zone: How Context Gets Lost Between Business and IT Business and IT often treat the handoff as a moment of progress: requirements are documented, a ticket is created, a design is approved, or a project moves from www.spreaker.com/episode/the-handof…

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