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SharePoint Online vs. Microsoft Teams for Project Management and Cross-Site Document Searchability
Hello: I am the PMO Senior Manager for a large global CPG company's R&D department. Note: I am in the business (not IT), and can't get the guidance / options / clarity I need before choosing to ...
If you utilized a team based structure you could still set up a centralized search environment outside of the SharePoint site collections built for the projects. If you used a naming standard for your SharePoint sites you could also configure a result source to be specific to your project sites. You will need to make sure they are all public teams at this point for search. If you want more specific metadata available you could utilize the content type up in SharePoint Online which now publishes content types to Group SharePoint sites.
You can also configure a custom provisioning process for Groups which can give you the corresponding team.
https://dev.office.com/blogs/provisioning-with-pnp-powershell-and-azure-webjobs
If you wanted to have a specialized planner with tasks you could clone that as well.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/02/17/microsoft-planner-how-to-clone-a-plan-with-graph/
You can also configure a custom provisioning process for Groups which can give you the corresponding team.
https://dev.office.com/blogs/provisioning-with-pnp-powershell-and-azure-webjobs
If you wanted to have a specialized planner with tasks you could clone that as well.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/02/17/microsoft-planner-how-to-clone-a-plan-with-graph/