👋 Hey there, I am Luise!

• 💻 I work as an independent Azure & Power Platform Architect
• 🌍 I am based in Germany, but traveling the world
• 🎉 I am awarded as a Microsoft MVP in M365 Development and Business Applications
• 🥑 I am a member of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices team and help people extending Microsoft 365
• 👑 You will find my blog at M365Princess.com where I share what I learn
• 🎙 I am a public speaker - love to be on stage!
• 💯 Connect with me on LinkedIn
• 🚀 Besides that, together with Elio Struyf, I run https://pimpyourowndevice.com - a sticker store
• 🎨 I am probably the only Satya-endorsed sketchnote artist in the community
• 🤓 I am a full time nerd interested in all kinds of geek-stuff and automation
• 💡 I am professional simplifyer

👾 When I am not behind my desk, I love to go running and building Lego (not at the same time!)

My latest blog posts

• Building Azure functions that never store secrets — ever
• Going Secretless: How to ditch Client Secrets and fall in love with Federated Credentials
• Introducing Mermaid to Dataverse Converter
• Stuck in Pilot – Part 2: no foundations, no future
• The MVP trap: AI lets you do more, but often worse
• It’s OK to be seen trying
• The productivity graph is broken and we’re pretending it’s fine
• Stuck in pilot - Part 1: The illusion of progress
• Round Robin assignments in Power Automate
• Stuck in pilot - Part 0: The comfort of the sandbox
• Copilot Studio: Part 5 - From tool to capability – making Copilot Studio strategic
• Copilot Studio: Part 4 - Agents that outlive their creators – governance, risk, and the long tail of AI
• Org chart is cheap, show me the relationships
• Copilot Studio: Part 3 - The cost of (in)action – what you’re really paying for with Copilot Studio
• Smart buttons for incident tracking in SharePoint
• Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups
• Copilot Studio: Part 2 – Copilot Studio agents: the ALM reality check
• I’ll refactor this later
• There are no temporary fixes (just permanent shortcuts)
• Stop pretending your text is bold: why fake formatting breaks accessibility
• What Tinder🔥 taught me about bad Dataverse design
• Introducing QR Watchface: Your wrist’s new best friend
• Copilot Studio: Part 1 – when automation bites back – autonomy ≠ chaos
• Copilot Studio: Part 0 – everything is an agent, until it isn
• Software development is a decathlon (and low-code only gives you running shoes for two events)
• Test Less. Test Better: The Modern Testing Stack
• Test Less. Test Better: The Modern Testing Stack
• Highway to the danger zone: No testing of business apps
• You can’t outsource accountability
• The benefits of testing (beyond working apps)
• Rethinking identity beyond passwords
• Confidently wrong: Why we misquote Maslow and misunderstand AI
• BYOM: Using Azure AI Foundry models in Copilot Studio
• Your Testing strategy is broken - Let’s fix it
• Tired of the AI hype machine
• Should I automate it?
• From duct tape to data discipline
• Still running on spreadsheets: the hidden cost of outdated infrastructure
• Outsourcing your brain: cognitive offloading
• Don’t get knocked out by licensing costs
• Blueprint for a successful AI project
• A hill to die on: there are no tiny changes
• No, a crash course won’t make you an AI leader
• AI as a finite vs infinite game in organizations
• How to let your AI project fail in spectacular fashion!
• Still stuck in Permit A38? Stop AI-ing the wrong things
• Unmeasured Part 5 – Rethinking productivity for a human future
• Unmeasured: Part 4 – The emotional cost of the productivity theater
• Unmeasured: Part 3 – The agility illusion
• Unmeasured: Part 2 – The difference between running and changing your business
• Unmeasured: Part 1 – We are measuring the wrong things
• Unmeasured: Part 0 - More ain
• Isolation as a business model
• How to Build a List Formatting Web Part with all the cool samples from the Universal Sample Gallery
• A Manifesto for Ethical Software
• Why the infamous
• What are we doing? I mean apart from back-to-back meetings and emails...
• Productivity isn’t an assembly line: escaping the 1925 mindset with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Transform the way we think about Copilot
• Turning Culture Into Capital: AI and the new means of production
• How to create a wordclock with Python
• Introducing Bluesky Terminal Poster
• How to make a SharePoint Web Part multilingual
• #FF69B4 or how to read Hex Color Values