Teams life cycle

Do I really need to create a team?

Teams is my tool!

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Teams

No need for Teams to do that, use OneDrive

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OneDrive

Then

Let the team name be clear and consistent with your project. Please refer to company guidelines or company naming convention:

  • Language: English
  • Always include Country name and Location
  • Use a self-explanatory name (do not use codes, strings or numbers)

Owners decide who can be invited to a team (other members or external guests).

Members share the same permissions as owners with some limitations: they cannot invite other members/external guests, remove people from the team, delete the team.

Guests (externals)can participate in channels, conversations, chats, and meetings; they can share files in channels, add new channels, and use Wiki (they can’t share file via chat or add apps).

Just post them on the conversation channel

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Watch out!

On Teams, everyone sees everything

Just post them on the conversation channel

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Watch out!

On Teams, everyone sees everything

Post contents on Teams private chat/encrypt the file

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On Teams, everyone sees everything

Are you sure Teams is the right tool for you?

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On Teams, everyone sees everything

Teams are made up with channels, which are the conversations you have with your teammates. Each channel is dedicated to a specific topic, department, or project.

A default channel called “General” is automatically created by Microsoft Teams. Please, try to use the general channel just to share high level information with the team, do not use it to share specific information on a project

Suggestion: create a group of folders related to sub-topic in advance, even if you leave them empty, they will be useful to give a structure to your documents.

Click on the button + placed close to the tab WIki. Select the app you want from the tab gallery. Teams connects you to Microsoft services (like Excel, OneNote, or Planner), external services, or a website of your choice.

Use the tab “Wiki” to write a set of rules (or “dos and don’ts”) every participant has to respect to create a common collaboration ground.

Start by creating a team: open Teams, on the bottom left of your screen click “Join or create a team”.

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After some months...

When the work of a team has run its course, it’s important to formally acknowledge that it’s over. This gives team members a sense of closure and also prevents anyone from accessing outdated, stale information. When you delete teams you don’t need anymore, IT can reverse you decision for up to 21 days.

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Notify everyone that you're going to delete the team sharing a precise date.

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Archive final data on SharePoint.

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Document best practices and lessons learned, for example leveraging OneNote or other Teams channels.

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Tell people to save the contents that matters for them in their OneDrive.

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Three days before the deletion of the team, send an email for further notify team members.

Safely store your docs

Features in a nutshell

This is your cloud space and it is the right place if you want to safely store all your personal documents and to share them with single users. Do not risk losing your work and always save on the cloud!

  • Personal cloud storage
  • One shot document sharing and co-editing with specific users
  • Possibility to sync folders locally on your pc

Collaborate and communicate within large groups

Features in a nutshell

Discover the usefulness of a dynamic document repository for large groups. You can create groups based, e.g., on functions, events, departments with different grants for different members. With such a tool you can collaborate, share documents and build proper communication sites. There are also advanced features available, like home page customization.

  • Document repository for large groups
  • Possibility to guarantee different access levels
  • Creation of proper communication sites

Take teamwork to the next level

Features in a nutshell

Do you want a place where your project team can easily collaborate and communicate from every place in the Company? This tool provides a team workspace based on specific projects/topics with identical grants for all the members.

Another interesting feature? It is integrated with Outlook Calendar and Skype, and there is also available a team calendar.

  • Co-editing
  • Documents sharing
  • Contextual conversations
  • Chat (WhatsApp-like)
  • Immediate video conference
  • Advanced integrations with other tools (e.g.: Planner, Jira)
  • Dedicated Outlook calendar
  • Notifications in case of tags

Take teamwork to the next level

Features in a nutshell

Everybody nowadays uses Facebook or other social networks.

Yammer is your enterprise social network: it is meant for large groups and you can use it to share your thoughts and ideas inside departments/functions.

It is not for project documentation sharing, but it is the right tool to engage, celebrate, share funny or emotional moments, collect quick feedbacks, or ask questions on specific topics.

  • Enterprise social collaboration
  • Picture sharing
  • Polls
  • Possibility to customize notifications by user
  • Possibility to follow people and groups (Twitter-like)

Features in a nutshell

OneNote is your digital notebook: get organized share ideas and create together in OneNote across all your devicesYour world organized.
Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages. With easy navigation and search you’ll always find your notes right where you left them.
Gather your thoughts then make them even better.
Revise your notes with type highlighting or ink annotations.
With OneNote across all your devices you’ll never miss a flash of inspiration.Share and collaborateGreat minds don’t always think alike but they can share ideas and create together in OneNote.

Features in a nutshell

Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans organize and assign tasks share files chat about what you’re working on and get updates on progress.
Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks based on their status or on whom they’re assigned to. To update the status or change assignments, just drag and drop tasks between columns.