Kristin AbdillProject Manager| Presbyterian Health ServicesAlbuquerque, Nm, United States
We have made the transition from Skype to Teams, and are also trying to transition from Sharepoint to Teams. Theoretically, the two should work together, but to create a PMO site with a complete repository of all project artifacts, it doesn't really integrate at all.
If you are using teams, are you utilizing it as your document storage as well? We have a different team for each project, but want Execs of our organization to have a one stop shop to all project documents. I would appreciate any input/insight/tips/hellos :) Saving Changes...
Greetings Kristin! My organization has just transitioned to Teams as well, and internal governance is still developing (who can create, naming, public or private, owners and permissions, etc). Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive are all integrated, and, "designed to be a universal toolkit to give your team members integrated and flexible ways to work for their projects and tasks."
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...67-d4d361da3dea
As with all new technologies and applications, there's a learning curve. Just getting some members to begin using Teams has been a challenge. Learning begins with using it and adopting it into regular practices.
Much success to you! Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
We done it too. We migrate exactly the same than you. Answering your question is difficult because I can say that we do not have any problem to create the repository but it could be perhaps because our repository requirements allow that, no matter is too complex because we use it for governance then approvals workflow is embeded. With that said, my background is mainly software and as you know "work together", "fully integrated" and this type of things never are a reality, unfortunately. Saving Changes...
Our core usage of Teams is chat and document repository. What is not obvious is that the document repository is SharePoint. When you're in the Files tab, one of the options when you click on the ellipsis (...) is 'Open in SharePoint', which takes you to a SharePoint site where you can add lists and do most other things you could normally do.
I haven't figured out, yet, if there is a correlation between sites in a site collection and channels in a team; it hasn't been critical.
I have created a personal team as a sandbox where I can play with the different apps available to add as tabs, in Teams. Using the Lists app, you can create a list in Teams, which is actually created in SharePoint, or go to the Team SharePoint site to create your lists and views, and then link the list to the Lists tab in Teams. I've created a form that submits the results to a list - I put both on tabs in the same Team, but neither has to be for it to work. I can also use PowerBI to create project reports & dashboards from list content, and then add it to a tab in Teams.
There's more that I'm working on, but the gist of it is that if you were using SharePoint as a PMIS before, you haven't lost much, if anything, and you have a new front-end wrapper that provides additional tools, all in one place. I'm not saying its the best tool on the market, but when your company is not spending money on a new PMIS or PPM solution, and you are licensed for Teams and other MS software (power automate, flow, power BI, project, to name a few), you are not without options. The exception might be resource management/forecasting. It's on my list, but I haven't put any real time into figuring it out, yet. Saving Changes...
Adela TataruSenior Project Manager| Self EmployedVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Hello Krisitin,
You can create a teams that is open for all project teams and shareholders where you store the PM documents that need to be shared. But storage is actually done in Sharepoint anyway.
If you already have a Sharepoint grouping the documents, you can create a teams and then use the option Add Cloud Storage from the top ribbon in the Files section to add the Sharepoint content to the teams. Everyone who already has access to Sharepoint will be added to the Teams site.
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