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Lana O'Brien
Sep 26, 2016Former Employee
Announcement: Major OneDrive updates at Ignite 2016 include SharePoint Online sync preview
OneDrive and SharePoint work together to make storing and accessing all your files simple and powerful. We recently outlined a vision for file management in Office 365 that included a set of new feat...
PhilineVon
Oct 05, 2016Iron Contributor
With sync being ever more effective in actually sharing and working on content together, why are features like alert me or check out not available? I can see these suggestions in uservoice, but wondering if someone might have some insights.
Alexander Forst-Rakoczy
Oct 06, 2016Brass Contributor
PhilineVon wrote:With sync being ever more effective in actually sharing and working on content together, why are features like alert me or check out not available? I can see these suggestions in uservoice, but wondering if someone might have some insights.
Not an actual insight but only my opinion and experience as a software consultant:
- Microsoft and other companies are using agile software development, like SCRUM
- agile software devolopment focuses on working applications that are enhanced incrementally
- thus, not all features that were available in the previous version of Groove/OneDrive for Business/SharePoint are available right now in the new client
- most (if not all) features will be implemented in future iterations