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aagaag
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May 02, 2020

Teams: Best practice for an academic molecular biology COVID19 research lab

I am a professor of molecular neuroimmunology leading a group of 30 scientists. We have fully switched our research to COVID19 and are now striving to clone therapeutic anti-COVID antibodies in convalescent patients. This work is pro bono, without any financial rewards: we just want to help mankind survive these difficult days. Because we practice social distancing, I am moving to collab tools (including Teams) for planning purposes. My question is: what is a good Teams app for simple, unstructured project management? Keep in mind that we are not a construction company. Ideas, tasks and schedules are very loose, things often do not work (this is research, not engineering!). Therefore when I say "project management" I mean something very flexible and poorly structured, a mix of timelines and whiteboard so to speak. Any advice?

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    If you wanted something really simple to start with, you could try adding a Planner into your Teams channel.  You can do this by clicking the + in a channel and adding Planner, giving it a name, and then you can add tasks, and assign them and set due dates etc.  Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?

     

     

    Name your plan

     

     

    New planner tab as shown in Team

     

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