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Announcement: Major OneDrive updates at Ignite 2016 include SharePoint Online sync preview
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.
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
Sure. It is just like putting someone in a car at 100 miles an hour and telling him the brakes will be added next week. Users are asking for it and don't understand why these basic features are missing. It hinders them from actually using OneDrive effectively. Hopefully these features will come soon.