Forum Discussion
Make the Group concept clear through our wordings
It's hard to be 'correct' in that there isn't really any consistency in the naming. I refer to the overall concept as an Office 365 Group, then the workloads as Outlook Groups, Yammer Groups, Teams, Plans, SharePoint Sites.
Steven Collier, are you appending a prefix (naming convention) to your groups when they are created?
- Yes, we prefix with GRP - , so they are easily identified in address books.
I take the same approach as Steven Collier. Office 365 Groups have a few services in common - Identity first and foremost, a Team Site / Files, a Notebook, Planner, PowerBI. The main difference is where you hold your conversations. I refer to the conversation experience as Outlook Groups, Yammer Groups (expected in January) and Microsoft Teams. Yet in the case of MS Teams naming gets interesting because they use Office 365 Groups but we refer to each of the services as the Team Files (er... Team (Team) Site), Team Notebook...
