Steve Dalby

Steve Dalby

Podcaster "Office365Distilled" Driving Collaboration Business Goals, Speaking about Governance, Whiskey taster and imbiber all round father and good guy.

Appears in 187 Episodes

EP124: Move over Agile and Waterfall

The boys review the events visited and the future speaking opportunities for this year.  And then recall a conversation over lunch bounced from the CollabDay Belgium p...

EP123: From Pussy Galore to Apps Galore

Steve is in a mood and Marijn is suffering big time... We are trying to identify all the end-user apps that need governance and adoption and how much work is required....

EP122: Reflecting on The Power of Focus

Firstly if you want to  Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summit ), it is Last cha...

EP121: Goalong Governance docs

Firstly if you want to Collab Days Poland (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – ) So Marijn lost for the first round of the battle betw...

EP120: M365 Myth Busting

Firstly if you want to  Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical Microsoft 365 Baseline Governance – South Coast Summit ) As always the s...

A Wee Dram #16 SCS - Governance in 11 steps – The Preview

October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.com/workshop/practical-microsoft-365-baseline-governance/ In this final Wee Dram for August, we look at...

EP119: Adopt Based on the size of your package

The boys get distracted as always as the Autumn Speaker circuit comes alive.  The conclude with Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at Practical ...

EP118: Steve and Marijn Define Governance

Getting ahead of themselves, this episode was recorded at the end of July for the August release due to holidays etc. Before looking at Our governance model defined by...

A Wee Dram #15 SCS - The catchy Governance Model D.R.A.A.P

Continuing their Wee Drams on thei new Governance workshop for South Coast Summit  October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.com/workshop/practic...

EP117: Steve and Marijn's Dream M365 job

The boys get distracted for the first 10 minutes covering Their speaking events, Governance at the South Coast Summit (join their workshop at www.southcoastsummit.com ...

A Wee Dram #14 SCS - Why do we Need Governance

October13th 2023 @SouthCoastSummit https://www.southcoastsummit.com/workshop/practical-microsoft-365-baseline-governance/ In this special Wee Dram which is primarily n...

EP116: Governance meets Change for New Stream

In this special podcast, we have changed a few things... The Intro does not blow your ears out at the start... You can win a place at our 5th Birthday celebration with...

EP115 by SecureMailMerge: Steve bought an App

This is a very late podcast because Steve #ScrewedUp and the great interview with Alex Duggleby needed more work than usual.  But it is finished, Alex sounds great, ne...

EP114: Do 70% of VIVA projects fail?

Wow, what a week, you can tell when Steve and Marijn have had a busy week because you get this very laid-back podcast where they discuss their Trips... and start with ...

EP113 by CloudAlly: The M365 backup backstory!

The second of 3 podcasts sponsored by CloudAlly and provided 3 great whiskies to taste across the following 3 Episodes.  Today we are speaking to Murrey Moceri, the Pa...

EP111: Hairy Fairy Governance from the Jungle

Taking the first module and outlining how Process, Governance and Policies, when brought together, ensure we present a practical approach to providing a well-governed ...

EP110: Boutique Business Needing Content Compliance

Steve and Marijn are joined today by a Guest who brings many questions about UK financial compliance.  In this episode, we wanted Laura Madden to tell us what her cust...

EP109: Lost in AI and then document governance

Marijn and Steve lose about 20 minutes of this podcast covering search and how AI might help.  We accept that we can’t help ourselves... We eventually started on docum...

EP108: The 4.5 pillars of Innovation

This is an extraordinary look at Innovation based on criteria around: Creativity, Vision, Risk-taking and Collaboration.  But maybe Governance has a place... or half a...

EP107: XLA delayed by Valentines day

Are SLAs just Secrets, Lies and Assumptions?  Do we fudge the KPIs to show we have excellent delivery?  It’s possible, but XLA’s are more difficult to fool.  The boys ...

EP106: Practical Governance From ChatGPT

2023 is the year of governance with Marijn and Steve. To get started, we asked ChatGPT for 3 paragraphs describing Governance for M365, which we used to dig deep into ...

EP105: Five Rules for Building Baseline Governance

So 2023 in the country of Office365Distilled is the year of Governance. And we start with out invention and golden nugget, Baseline Governance which is about doing ju...

A Wee Dram #11: M365 Iterative Strategy

So we know that M365 is a constant... it constantly changes. We look at M365 considering where the value is in this changing environment and how best to manage the st...

EP104: Entering Listopia the world of Lists

After Mark Kashman’s great block article from the end of 2022 https://kashbox.substack.com/p/use-microsoft-lists-to-track-contacts Steve thinks we need more examples o...

Christmas Eve: Closing with the Boys EGO & Craigellachie 2008, 14 years in the Barrel

The boys celebrate 24 podcasts this month and a year of work relaxing with the ultimate Christmas gift for the whisky lover. A quick review of the work and travel, bu...

Advent Dec 23rd: Another silly Rule from IT that needs change?

So WhatsApp is prevalent and easy to use, but it does not conform to the business management of corporate content. What’s in it for me is minimal value for the users ...

Advent Dec 22nd: Question: Are there too many meetings in a day?

Meetings are working; this is a pretext for Agile methodology and is very true today. Meetings take work, and they also take you away from work. Meeting culture ne...

Advent Dec 21st: Yammer has stories Like Steve and Marijn

Marijn explains Yammer’s Storylines and Stories because he loves them both. He makes a good point; this creates an opportunity for every individual to join the compan...

Advent Dec 20th: Eating Nuts and a not so Interesting bourbon.

So, this podcast just goes to show that the tasting notes of a Whisky can be very accurate... In this case, one stating notes says intense whisky with a hint of plasti...

Advent Dec 19th: Marijn goes SharePoint pages mad with a Golden Nugget

Marijn has been using Steve’s ideas again and wants to tell everyone how he is tracking the questions on his SharePoint site about the change ad adoption project he is...

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