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We're slowly rolling it out to individual product teams in our small (~50 people) ms-based dev organisation. Things are going reasonably well. We'd have picke
by px1999 10y ago
We're slowly rolling it out to individual product teams in our small (~50 people) ms-based dev organisation. Things are going reasonably well.
We'd have picked slack over teams in a minute, though it has compliance issues making it unusable for us - slack is just more polished and has a lot more that you can get out of the box / with plugins. That said, teams still has some great features for us, so we'll stick with it for at least 2017. We've tried a few similar options before (primarily group chat) but they all had gaps / issues that resulted in them being not as useful/used as we'd have liked.
There are still a couple of massive gaps in teams for us:
* No on-premise TFS integration
* It seems that Office 365 is all or nothing - we can't tie the o365 account to our primary email address without it messing up external email routing.
If you're trying to replace a culture of email + some IM + files tucked away in some document management system that don't get updated as frequently as they should, it's a good start. If you've already got good communication then it's less valuable.
- donmatito 10y agoGood enough product vs crappy status quo + massive Office userbase = will probably end well for them :-)
- px1999 10y agoThat's pretty likely. If people don't know how to use collaborative tools, they get frustrated and give up, so a successful product can't alienate its userbase. Skype teams is familiar enough for the email generation to use, but still improves slightly on communication. There's a huge market out there that's scared of Slack etc, but will love Skype Teams.