This time, we are coming to you live from Barcelona, Spain! We had a boys weekend in Barcelona to go to the Formula 1 testing days. So a perfect long weekend of roaring F1 engines, gorgeous hills and weird architecture.
Oh yes, and do some work and podcasts too!
Shownotes
The main topic today is how F1 / O365 projects are kind of similar..
An F1 car costs millions of euros to develop and make race worthy..; if you look at O365 projects: engineering, networking, design, certificates, conditional acces, … it feels the same.
And then you put it in front of the end user (the driver).. See what happens.. It all relies that one person (or group of people) to bring the win home. And if it goes wrong.. Who is to blame? The engineer who didn’t do the screw perfectly? The driver who wants to go too fast on that 3d left corner ?
End users, just as F1 drivers, need to trust the platform to be there for them when they need it = user is in charge of speed, level of craziness and that the platform is there to support them (and not spin out of control).
How governance is all negative: don’t let users do this / that versus another G-word: guidance: where you win or you learn: Enable stuff for your end users
Preparing / pampering the users: Teams still decide what to roll out
If you want to start your own team… (aka a client comes to you to start with O365), what do you need?
– R&D (analysis)
– Driver = customer
– Sponsors need to come with the driver
Winning is, both in F1 as in O365 projects: doing stuff more efficient
Therefore you need a mindset change = unstable in a nice way
It takes a lot of people to make O365 work. Security = limitation
You need testdata, make sure your car is doing crazy laptimes
But you want it secure too… So there is a trade off to be made here
Also, don’t forget the people in the pitlane, they are your helpdesk 1st line support
Whisky
We have something special for you this episode!
We sat down with Nick Baeyens, who is the Benelux Brand Ambassador from Bruichladdich for a tasting of 6 non peated whiskies. While we didn’t record that one.. But we had a really nice interview with him afterwards about what it takes to be a connoisseur, and how you can amp up your tasting profile. Thanks a million to Huis Verloo in Antwerp for organising the tasting!