Maximizing PMO Efficiency with Microsoft Loop

Let’s return to this great new tool: Microsoft Loop. It’s a really fun, easy and fast way to collaborate. But I think there’s even more potential to maximize the PMO’s efficiency. But first, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… it’s Microsoft Lodds?! (Gen AI has a way with words, doesn’t it?).

Prompt: Provide a funny image for this article "Maximizing PMO Efficiency with Microsoft Loop"
Here’s a funny (AI generated) image depicting the scenario of maximizing PMO efficiency with Microsoft Loop. The cartoon features an office scene with a superhero introducing Microsoft Loop to an overwhelmed team.



One more thing before we dive into the world of PMO and Microsoft Loop. I asked the AI to clarify what the speech bubble said and it didn’t tell me “gibberish, to Microsoft Lodds!” No, it told me “Wow! This will save us weeks!” very interesting:

A bit scarry when the AI reads something useful where there is clearly a gibberish text from our perspective. This makes you think if there are a lot more hidden AI messages already out there… (but it’s not Halloween, so let’s move on)

Notes, but better

On first glance, Loop can look like just your ordinary note taking tool. And it’s true, it might be its most prominentfeature. But I’d like an alternative view on what Loop really brings to the table:

Connections

With Microsoft Loop, you can start from “whereever” (obviously this is an exageration, but take a look at the list from the link). The components are the superpower for Loop in my opinion. With these loop components I can start in Word, move to Teams, move to Excel and end in a Loop workspace, without ever losing content, and without ever losing connections with the previous locations.

If I have a Loop component inside Word, and within Teams, both get updated when team members alter the content.

Talk about a single source of truth!

Copilot Pages

Yes, sorry, we do need to talk about AI a bit. Hope you aren’t getting sick of it yet.

Recently, Microsoft announced Copilot Pages. Pages is quote: “[…] a dynamic, persistent canvas in Copilot chat designed for multiplayer AI collaboration.”. And even though there is 0 mention of Loop in the article, we can easily see the Loop component look and feel.

Loop loves Copilot Generative AI
Look, there’s a loop icon on the copy component!

Team & AI collaboration becomes a breeze with Loop.

I published about Loop previously on the blog. But I also have a well received video about the topic:

Using Loop, Planner and To-do together.



Final notes

Building on a business case. Prompting for a design review document or user acceptance test script. Finetuning application documentation. Everything can be done with ease over e-mail, within Word/Excel, Teams or Copilot. The glue is Microsoft Loop.

Did you read my last article on implementing PPM solutions? I hope it will make you consider the way you work on your next project.