07-23-2018 11:07 AM
Hello folks, I was wondering if anyone would be able to share some real life use cases of MS Teams. If possible, I am interested in actual examples of how you used MS Teams, connectors, etc. to solve a business need. Samples, ideas, and screenshots would really help. I am talking to a client about MS Teams and want to explore more scenarios than those we know of. I am sure lots of you are using Teams in creative ways out there and would love to learn how! Thank you in advance.
07-23-2018 12:07 PM
I am an O365 Evangelist, and we try to help out different business units so that can be more productive. In one of the recent Teams migration that we did, the Business unit lead reached out to us asking for help with the following:
Business Requirement:
Communication Challenges:
After the migration we were able to move the following workflows to Teams:
Existing Workflow | After Migration to Teams | Result |
Email Meeting Agenda to the team. | Create a message with Subject line to publish the agenda of the call | No email communication needed |
Email Excel attachment to capture regional numbers | Along with the agenda also post an excel file to capture data from different regions and @mention people whose attention is needed | No version control required |
Consolidate the different version of excel to come up with a current version | You can coauthor in Excel from Teams | No more working with version |
Create charts in excel to show the trends | Create power BI reports based out of the excel | Better reporting |
Create notes in OneNote and send out actionable items to team members via email | Use Planner to assign the actionable items from the call | Easier for people to keep track of the assigned tasks |
Email PowerPoint to the team after the meeting | Upload the PowerPoint and start a conversation related to that. | No email communication needed |
So the newly created Teams has 4 channels for each region. Each Channel has all the Files related to the Business review process in Files Tab. All the reports are now generated via Power BI and are integrated via a Tab in the channel. The actionable items are identified as tasks in Planner (again integrated as a tab), and Agenda is posted in Conversation.
So the need to hop from one platform to another is no longer there, and it created a culture of transparency between the team as everyone can see the conversations.
Probably a long post but hope this helps!
07-23-2018 12:12 PM
07-23-2018 12:20 PM
07-23-2018 12:21 PM
Interesting. I am not familiar with SharePoint connectors. Would you mind elaborating?
07-23-2018 12:24 PM
This is a brilliant blog post on SharePoint News by @Mark Kashman :)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/SharePoint-news-updates-in-Office-3...
01-25-2019 02:03 AM