Getting started with Copilot Cowork
A practical first look at Microsoft Copilot Cowork, covering early productivity wins, limitations, and the kinds of workflows it’s good for.
liamjbennett
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The hot topic that isn't AI: Operational Resilience
Operational resilience means assuming failure, testing platform, dependency and people risks regularly, and building the muscle memory to recover and learn.
Some thoughts on design documents
Personal Goals in 2026
2025: A Year Review
Why I hate product roadmaps
Product roadmaps are ubiquitous but often flawed and I think we can do better
Debrief on the Dubai FinTech Summit 2025
My experience of the Dubai FinTech Summit, what I learnt, what I shared and what I'll be doing next
My history with computers
From childhood to professional - telling the first part of my digital life story
What the Cloud Adoption curve can teach us about AI
We've all been on the ebbs and flows of cloud fascination, resistance, adoption, pragmatism so its lets look at what this can tell us about the latest AI trend
Goals, Values and Purpose - sharing mine
My goals, values and purpose - sharing more of myself after years of coaching
Personal Goals in 2025
2024: A Year Review
Reflecting on 2024 - the year of roles changes and habit stacking and stats
Lessons learnt writing weeknotes
What I have learnt after 4 months of writing weeknotes
Yes, I'm on a walking treadmill
Describing my walking treadmill - why, how and that video background.
The future of Managed Services and the 7 Powers
How Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers applies to the future of IT managed service providers
What is Portfolio Architecture
Answering the question I've been asked for months - What is portfolio architecture and it's relationship with product management?
Love Letter to RSS
Why I love RSS and you should to
The Changelog
I'm back! What's happening to this blog.
Map those skills part 2 - using the maps
How to use the maps over time as you evolve your skills
Map those Skills!
Using wardley mapping to map my skills and focus on career development
My workflow in 2023
Over a year on, I reflect on my knowledge management workflow and discuss some recent changes
Chaos Engineering - fact or fiction
The realities of chaos engineering and steps to get there
Mixed Operating Models - part 3
DevOps, ITIL and the cultural changes
Mixed Operating Models - part 2
Understanding how ITIL and DevOps co-exist in an organisations landscape - some practical steps
Mixed Operating Models - part 1
Understanding how ITIL and DevOps co-exist in an organisations landscape.
My experiences building teams
I've spent 6 years building teams and here are some things it's taken me a while to learn
6 things I learnt migrating to the cloud
After many different migration and transformation projects; these are the things they don't tell you.
Lessons learnt being remote
Things I've learnt about remote working and distributed teams
Explaining my workflow
Explaining the tools I steps I take to research and gather information