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Adopting Microsoft Teams for your projects
Most of the questions I see around Microsoft Teams and adoptions is often based on the misunderstanding of the fundamentals of the technology behind and the purpose of the work methods enabled by usi...
I like the analogy as well. I think that a lot of people miss that Teams works best when they are functionally aligned as opposed to organizationally aligned. Ad hoc Teams work best when they have a specific set of people, working on a specific set of tasks, for a specific period. There can be exceptions to that, but the best examples of ad hoc work meet those criteria. A Microsoft Teams Workspace that is organized around a process that is worked on by a group of people allows them to work on that process with only the communications and files that relate directly to the process and tasks at hand. This allows them to focus intently on that work and makes them more productive. The key is to do this intentionally across the organization. That is the hard part.
Yes, I agree. Many so-called "organizational teams" are not "real" teams. A real team is -in my opinion- a group of people who need to deliver a business outcome so they have a common purpose aligned to tasks, files, and ongoing recurrent conversations. Those real teams are the best use case for Teams. Organizational Teams tend to be underutilized compared to those functionally. What kind of collaboration space do you recommend for organizational teams instead? 🤔