Every so often a new product comes to market that disrupts that way we used to do things. Say hello to “Microsoft Teams”. It’s the new kid on the block that will make you rethink how you collaborate and communicate with your team. Whether you're a project manager, team member, or external stakeholder, Microsoft Teams offers many benefits that will make you wonder how you ever effectively managed projects without it!
Join me as I shares some real world examples and best practices for how Microsoft Teams can be leveraged to streamline project collaboration and communication. This session will have a large demo component to it, so arrive with questions and be prepared to improve the way you work today!
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Increasing Project Efficiency using Microsoft Teams
1. Increasing Project Efficiency using
Microsoft Teams
How to successfully adopt Microsoft Teams within your Project
Management Practices
Haniel Croitoru
August 11, 2018
6. MAIN PILLARS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
What do project leaders really care about
7. TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
80% of Project Manager’s time is typically spent communicating
Communication
Project Plan
Status
Reports
Risk & Issue
Log
Meeting
Minutes
Action Items
Decision Log
Change
Request Log
8. IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION ON PROJECTS
Does communication really matter on project success?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Project Goals Met Project Delivered Within Budget Project Delivered On Time
Effective Ineffective
Source: PMI’s Pulse of the Profession™ In-Depth Report: The Essential Role of Communications
9. COMMUNICATE AT ALL LEVELS
Communication needs to be effective at all levels of the project team and organization
Internal project members
Internal Stakeholders
External stakeholders
Senior Leadership Team
Project Sponsors & Key Stakeholders
Project Team
Silent Stakeholders
10. WORK TOGETHER IN A SMART WAY
Working together requires a common base for content
Provide the right information
in the right format
to the right person
at the right time
11. COLLABORATION: REALITY CHECK
In many organizations, information is poorly managed today
•Document duplication
•Poor access control and audit trails
•Finding information is tedious
•Lack of consistency between
project sites
12. STAYING INFORMED
A Project Manager should always know what is happening
•Stay informed on tasks and deliverables
•Progress on development and testing
•Feedback from external people
33. CONSOLIDATE CONVERSATIONS
Keep conversations in Teams. Email is so 2015!
•Leverage Teams and Channels for communication
•Depending on organization and project structure, channels may represent
different entities (departments, functional teams, etc.)
Considerations
• Content that may be relevant beyond a project
• Should it be in the project Team/Channel or functional one?
• Any conversations are easily searched by users from anywhere within Teams, while
respecting security
34. CIRCLE OF TRUST
Keeping conversations to a limited set of individuals
•Should users outside of your organization or project team be able to read
the conversations?
Considerations
• Today, once you grant access to a team, users can see the content on all the
channels
35. CIRCLE OF TRUST
Keeping conversations to a limited set of individuals
•Should users outside of your organization or project team be able to
contribute to the conversations?
Considerations
• You can choose who can email a channel
• You should create a less cryptic alias that
is easy to remember
36. BRING TEAMS CLOSER TOGETHER
Leverage video conferencing
•Migrate video conferencing meetings to Microsoft Teams meetings
Considerations
• Skype for Business meetings live inside Office 365
• Not associated with any specific group entity
37. BRING TEAMS CLOSER TOGETHER
Leverage video conferencing
•Review materials discussed during a video chat session
•Work with global teams without worrying about the language barriers
•Considerations
• Automatic transcription and time coding
• Caption reading and full conversation searches
• Automatic facial recognition to attribute
comments to user
• Real-time translation
• Blur Surrounding
38. CONVERSATIONS ON THE GO
Participate in conversations anytime from anywhere
•Mobile apps provide rich functionality to stay connected with project teams
•Considerations
• Majority of organizations today have a mobile workforce
39. FEED THE CONVERSATIONS
Bring in additional information that is relevant to your project
•Incorporate additional content directly to the conversations using
connectors
•Considerations
• Users get to remain in one app rather than checking multiple locations
• Notifications are real-time
41. TAKING NOTES
Each meeting should be followed by minutes
•A OneNote is associated with every Team/Channel
•Capture unstructured meeting minutes
•Considerations
• Leverage extensive functionality in OneNote for searching content
• Add Meeting details directly into OneNote
42. FILE SHARING
Manage all project artefacts from a single location
•Each Channel has its own folder in the Team’s Office 365 Group Shared
Document Library
•Considerations
• Ensure everyone is working on the latest version
• Integrate storage from other SharePoint, DropBox, Box, or Google Drive sources
• Promote documents to their own tabs in a Channel (e.g. SOW)
• For different permissions, need to use different Teams or SharePoint sites
• Open directly from mobile device
44. GET NOTIFIED OF WHAT MATTERS MOST
Keeping up-to-date should be effortless
•Microsoft Teams includes a rich collection of Connectors, Bots, and Tabs to
surface information from other systems
•Considerations
• Surfacing content inside Teams saves
time and keeps the team informed
• Share content from a specific account
with the entire project team
• Automate manual tasks through bots
• Leverage Flow to further automate
notifications
46. REFERENCES
•Quick start - Microsoft Teams planning guide
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/quick-start-enable-
teams?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&WT.mc_id=docs-email
•Microsoft Teams documentation and practical guidance
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/microsoft-teams
•Microsoft Teams help center
• https://support.office.com/en-us/Teams
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Communication and Collaboration involves people
Notification & Reporting doesn’t and shouldn’t
What varies in communication are the following:
Medium
Frequency
Audience
Triggers
80% of projects delivered by organizations considered highly effective communicators meet their original goals, versus only 52 percent at their minimally effective counterparts.
highly effective communicators are also more likely to deliver projects on time (71 percent versus 37 percent) and within budget (76 percent versus 48 percent).
Good communication has to be open and easily accessible
You can edit or delete your chat messages during the first 24 hours after they are posted. In the upper-right corner of the chat message, click or tap the More options icon (…), and then choose Edit or Delete.
The Meetings icon on the app bar is currently enabled only for users whose mailbox is on Office 365 multi-tenant and a select few dedicated users whose mailbox location can be discovered using Exchange auto discovery.
The group email conversation remains in Microsoft Outlook. In Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Group members can use chat to communicate in a separate service within Teams.
Microsoft Teams team names appear in the Outlook global address book
The group email conversation remains in Microsoft Outlook. In Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Group members can use chat to communicate in a separate service within Teams.
Microsoft Teams team names appear in the Outlook global address book
You can add email distribution lists and mail-enabled security groups as members of a team. But, if you later add more members to the distribution list or security group, those members are not automatically added to the team. You must add the new members separately or add the distribution list or security group to the team again. (If you add the distribution list again, deduplication makes sure members are added only once.)
The team continues to function as-is. All data remains and all existing users can continue to use the team. If the removed user was the only owner of the team, an IT admin can retake control of the team by going through the Office 365 admin center and adding themselves or someone else as the team owner. The team recognizes that change. Any connectors added to the team by the removed user do stop working. Scheduled meetings continue to work because they're on the group calendar. Files and conversations are retained.
For the full Microsoft Teams experience, every user should be enabled for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office 365 Group creation. Users' Exchange mailboxes can be hosted online or on-premises. Users hosted on Exchange Online or Exchange Dedicated vNext can use all the features of Microsoft Teams. They can create and join teams and channels, create and view meetings, modify user profile pictures, add and configure connectors, tabs, and bots, and they can chat and call.
Bots, Connectors, Webhooks, API’s… the future of integration
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/tabs
There are Microsoft Teams samples in our GitHub repositories for you to clone or download:
'Maps' tab sample. This is the simple example that is used in this documentation.
Simple Todo List tab sample. This Node.js sample shows how easy it is to convert an existing web app into a tab.