Shared Vocabulary: Why Naming Is a Governance Problem, Not a Documentation Task Many projects fail not because of poor technology or bad intentions but because people simply use different words for the same thing. This episode unpacks the p www.spreaker.com/episode/shared-vocabular...
Dataverse Explained: The Foundation Your Apps Depend On In this episode of m365.fm, Mirko Peters takes a step back from the usual Power Apps conversation and focuses on what actually determines success or failure lon www.spreaker.com/episode/dataverse-explai...
Release Rhythm: Aligning Deployment Cadence with Business Reality Most organisations treat software releases as a technical cadence: a staging pipeline, a calendar, and a checklist. But release rhythm is a business signal — www.spreaker.com/episode/release-rhythm-a...
The Power Platform Explained- Choosing the Right Tool (Before You Build Anything) In this episode, we explore why most Power Platform solutions fail long before anything is built. The issue is rarely the tool itself, but the starting point: t www.spreaker.com/episode/the-power-platfo...
Safe Defaults: How Defaults Encode Business Policy and Reduce Friction Defaults are one of the quietest levers a product or platform can pull: they shape user behavior, enforce policy, and either prevent costly mistakes or bake in www.spreaker.com/episode/safe-defaults-ho...
ML Chaos Playbook: A C-Suite Guide to Testing, Observability, and Recovery Many enterprise AI failures trace to untested assumptions at the intersection of models, data flows, and product behaviour. In this 23-minute, decision-first mo www.spreaker.com/episode/ml-chaos-playboo...
The Excel Shadow-System — Why Your Process Architecture is Failing In this episode, you’ll learn why your biggest operational risks are not visible in your tools—but hidden inside your process architecture. You’ll underst www.spreaker.com/episode/the-excel-shadow...
Meaningful SLOs: Translating Reliability into Business Contracts Most organizations treat SLOs as an engineering checkbox or an operations bulletin board. This episode reframes Service Level Objectives as negotiation tools be www.spreaker.com/episode/meaningful-slos-...
The Governance Dividend: Why Your Compliance Strategy is Your Only Real Competitive Advantage Most organizations try to fix governance with more policy, more approvals, and more oversight. It doesn’t work. Because governance that sits outside the workf https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-governance
Data Contracts as a Funded Service: A Board‑Ready SLA Template and 90‑Day Pilot for Reliable Data Enterprises repeatedly lose time and value to brittle data handoffs: unknown ownership, unpredictable quality, and project delays. This monologue gives executiv https://www.spreaker.com/episode/data-con
I Audited 500 M365 Tenants: Here's The Maturity Formula In this episode, you’ll learn why Microsoft 365 GRC maturity is widely misunderstood and why it cannot be achieved through more policies, tools, or administra www.spreaker.com/episode/i-audited-500-m3...
Policies are Not Code: Why Your Governance is Fragile Hello, my name is Mirko Peters — and I translate how technology actually shapes business reality. Most leaders believe that policies create control.
But in re www.spreaker.com/episode/policies-are-not...
Synthetic Data Governance: An Executive Playbook to Certify, Procure & Trust Synthetic Training Data Synthetic data is rapidly becoming a core input for training, testing, and privacy-preserving sharing—but it brings unique governance, provenance, and legal t https://www.spreaker.com/episode/synthet
Beyond the Checklist: Why Your M365 Governance Must Be Automated or Ignored Governance doesn’t fail because people don’t follow the rules. It fails because the system expects them to. And in Microsoft 365, decisions happen too fast www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-check...
Ownership Ripcord: Reclaim Orphaned Services Before They Explode Systems drift from named ownership all the time: people change roles, temporary fixes never graduate, and an unresponsive owner turns a small degradation into a www.spreaker.com/episode/ownership-ripcor...
Audit Ready or Audit Panic: The High Cost of Governance Debt Audit panic doesn’t start with the audit. It starts years earlier—when your Microsoft 365 environment was designed for productivity, but not for proof. The www.spreaker.com/episode/audit-ready-or-a...
Handover Passport: Make Every Ownership Transfer a Low‑Risk Handoff Transfers of ownership—on‑call rotations, sprint handovers, vacation coverage, or task reassignments—are predictable moments of risk that routinely leak i www.spreaker.com/episode/handover-passpor...
Structural Debt: The Hidden Cost of 'Default' M365 Governance Microsoft 365 governance, risk management, and compliance are no longer about isolated incidents or policy gaps. In modern M365 environments, risk behaves as a www.spreaker.com/episode/structural-debt-...
Uncertainty Accounting: A C‑Suite Playbook to Measure, Budget & Hedge Model Overconfidence Models don't just make mistakes—they can be confidently wrong. This non‑technical, executive‑grade monologue shows leaders how to turn abstract uncertaint https://www.spreaker.com/episode/uncertainty-accountin
The Governance Illusion: Why Your M365 Strategy is Designed to Fail Microsoft 365 governance is often misunderstood. Most organizations try to scale through alignment, meetings, and leadership control. But governance built on hu www.spreaker.com/episode/the-governance-i...
Purchased Data Signals: An Executive Playbook to Certify, Price, and Failover Third‑Party Feeds Enterprises rely on purchased data signals—identity graphs, geolocation, enrichment feeds, credit scores—to power decisions, yet these feeds bring hidden qu https://www.spreaker.com/episode/purchased-data
Technical Custody vs. Business Sovereignty: Designing the Human Layer of M365 Microsoft 365 governance, ownership, and accountability are broken in most organizations. The idea of shared responsibility in Microsoft 365 sounds right—but www.spreaker.com/episode/technical-custod...
Launch Time Capsule: Capture the Exact State That'll Save You a Night Page When incidents happen, teams waste hours reconstructing the state that existed at rollout: which config, which sample input, which environment drift. That rebui www.spreaker.com/episode/launch-time-caps...
Beyond Collaboration: The Architectural Shift to an Enterprise OS In this episode of m365.fm, Mirko Peters challenges one of the most common and most dangerous misconceptions in modern Microsoft 365 environments: that it is st www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-collabora...
Stop Managing Features: The Architectural Truth About Cloud Governance Most organizations try to fix governance with more policy, more approvals, and more oversight. It doesn’t work. Because governance that sits outside the workf www.spreaker.com/episode/stop-managing-fe...
Algorithmic Pricing Governance: A C‑Suite Playbook to Price with Models, Protect Margin, and Manage Fairness Algorithmic pricing can turbocharge revenue but also quietly erode margin, invite regulatory scrutiny, and damage customer trust when incentives, data, or orche https://www.spreaker.com/episo
The Escrow Ticket: Put Contested Decisions in Neutral Holding When stakeholders truly disagree—product wants speed, engineering wants safety—work stalls or, worse, ships with hidden compromises. The Escrow Ticket is a www.spreaker.com/episode/the-escrow-ticke...
The Invisible Tenant: Why Your Microsoft 365 Environment Is Less Secure Than You Think In this episode of m365.fm, Mirko Peters explains why most Microsoft 365 environments appear healthy on the surface — while hidden structural risks continue t https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invisible-tenant-
The 30‑Minute Runbook Test: Make Any Critical Recovery Executable by a Stand‑in When incidents hit, the true cost isn’t the bug — it’s that only one person knows how to fix it. That hidden single‑point-of-knowledge forces all‑hand www.spreaker.com/episode/the-30-minute-ru...
