Tag: microsoft-agents

10 posts tagged with "microsoft-agents"

• Microsoft's Agents Hub Decoded (2026): The Frameworks and the Gaps

  June 17, 2026

  Microsoft's new Agents hub formalizes agent architecture, archetypes, a maturity model, and evaluation. An architect's read on what it still leaves to you.

• Foundry Hosted vs In-Process vs Copilot Studio Agents (2026 Decision)

  May 31, 2026

  Foundry Hosted vs in-process vs Copilot Studio agents: a 2026 four-gate decision framework that picks the right path by who builds it and who runs it.

• The Agent Product Owner: Microsoft Just Formalized the Hire Most Enterprises Haven't Made (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 playbook formalizes the Agent Product Owner role. The practitioner read on what it does day to day, what to hire for, and why it matters.

• AgentOps on Microsoft Foundry: A Practitioner Decode of the New CI/CD Reference Architecture (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Practitioner read of Microsoft's new Foundry CI/CD reference architecture: the 5-layer pipeline, evaluation-driven release gates, and where the architecture understates the operational work.

• From Assist to Execute: The Reference Architecture Implications Microsoft's Playbook Doesn't Draw (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  The Assist-to-Execute shift in Microsoft's Agentic Patterns Playbook is the right conceptual move. This is the reference architecture implications the playbook stops short of drawing.

• Don't Build an AI Center of Excellence Until You Read This (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Critical practitioner read of Microsoft's AI CoE framework: the seven assumptions the playbook makes about Executive Sponsors, role authority, and CoE evolution that fail in most real enterprises.

• The Pilot Trap: Why Most Agent Initiatives Never Become Portfolio (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 playbook names 'many pilots, no portfolio' as the top scale-breaker. This is the practitioner read on why agent pilots stall and what it actually takes to graduate to portfolio.

• Risk-Tiered Agent Governance: Microsoft's Tier 1/2/3 Model Annotated for Real Deployments (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 playbook gives you a 3-tier risk model for AI agents. This is the practitioner annotation: concrete controls, tooling, cadence, and the Tier 0 the playbook does not name.

• The Scale-Breaker Microsoft Doesn't Name: Why Your AI Program Stalls Where the Playbook Doesn't Look (2026)

  May 30, 2026

  Microsoft's 2026 Agentic Patterns Playbook names five capability drivers. The scale-breaker most enterprises actually hit is the sixth one the framework doesn't measure.

• The Six Agentic Adoption Patterns: A Practitioner Decode of Microsoft's New Playbook (2026)

  May 26, 2026

  A practitioner read of Microsoft's Agentic Transformation Patterns Playbook: six patterns, the 5x5 maturity model, CoE structures, what it understates.