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Tim PM Project Manager| NHS Yes, United Kingdom
Hi all,

Is anyone using Microsoft Teams for your projects? If so, what do you use it for, do you have any advice? I may be able to get it cheaply…

Also do users get on well with it, particularly non-IT business users?

Finally I would be interested to know your overall set-up, if you have it basically standalone or you have integrated it with anything. Here we only have MS Office 2010, including Project (standard) and Outlook 2010, no Sharepoint, and I doubt it would integrate with any of those.

Thanks in advance
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William Larkin PMO Manager| Paradigm Advisory Group Hilton Head, Sc, United States
Oct 13, 2019 8:52 PM
Replying to Larry Baker
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I have recently started using MS Teams. I am using it to set up project teams. I start by adding all team members. I set up four tabs. I use the file tab, wiki, planner, and one note. The key for our work is to keep files in one location, assign tasks and create alerts. I am still using MS Project to set my timeline and see resource allocation but the Planner function is much more intuitive for users. We can go through the tasks in the kickoff. Add details to each tasks, files, and checklists. We have begun to transfer to Teams for meetings as well. The planned tasks can be added to your Outlook calendar. There is a function called "Flow" that allows you to set up other connections as well. This tool seems to have a very high ceiling and and low IT IQ for entry.
Larry, I saw your post and we are using Teams for all internal meetings, file storage and collaborative documents. I've been searching for someone who has integrated Planner Tasks with MS Project. Have you take Teams to that extent yet?
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Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Great platform. We are in the process of rolling out O365 and promoting Teams as the preferred collaboration platform. My experience is that all stakeholders find it easy to use and the adoption rate is high. We have set up a CoE for the rollout and assigned specific business units to champions to help them through the adoption. We have also set up a user forum where we maintain a best practice, Q&A and lessons learned sections. The key is to understand the needs of different stakeholders and then work with them to integrate to their specific tools i.e. Jira, slack or one of the MS apps. Teams only really come into its own when people realize that you do not need a cookie-cutter approach but that it is very customizable to fit any number of stakeholder groups.
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