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Curious- Are you allowing all users to create O365 groups or limiting self-service creation?
I echo some of the other comments here. If you want to encourage a collaborative culture, allow everyone to create Office 365 Groups. But it is best practise to create a naming policy to help "contain" sprawl. Using a policy to add a prefix helps identify them clearly as Groups in your Global Address List and Active Directory.
The next best approach is allowing a small group of people to create Office 365 Groups.
If you do switch of Group creation altogether, your people may continue to look outside the boundaries of your control and use Shadow IT solutions to fit their needs.
Our company just migrated to Office 365 and by default we are disabling the group creation feature as soon as users realized they could create groups, I started seeing groups like test, etc. Right now only the admins can create the Office 365 groups.
With teams on the horizon and using group creation to create groups inside of teams I'm not sure on whether to allow all to create groups.