Notes on better ways of working.
Six practitioner articles on choosing useful work, delivering it reliably and building the habits to keep improving.
Governance has to work at the speed of delivery.
A usable delivery path connects policy to the work. It gives a team clear decisions, proportionate checks and someone who owns the result.
Making AI useful in a Microsoft business.
Choose a real task, build around the environment your team uses and give the solution a clear route into everyday work.
The working habits that make AI useful.
Clear framing, useful context and deliberate checking matter in everyday delivery. These are habits a team can learn and reuse.
An AI-first culture changes how the problem is framed.
Teams need the confidence and permission to rethink the work, along with a reliable way to test whether the new approach is better.
How we know the new workflow is better.
Test the complete job: the quality of the result, the time to finish and the effort needed to check it.
Choosing a first build that earns its place.
A useful first build has a clear business result, a manageable scope and someone ready to help put it into use.