The Office 365 groups: you too will love it!
If you work as a team – and especially if you are using Agile or Scrum – this article is for you! The Office 365 groups can perform small miracles as task management tool. They give you plenty of good reasons to adopt them for your projects.
Such simple collaborative groups that everyone finds it
Such simple collaborative groups that everyone finds it
The Office 365 groups have a shared workspace to facilitate teamwork. They enable among others to exchange and share documents around a common project. Once added to the group, users have access to various shared tools:
● the conversations Wall (Conversations / Feeds)
● Calendar (Calendar);
● Notepad (OneNote);
● Files (Files);
● Planner (Planner).
What we like most groups of Office 365? They are really easy to create. Just enter the email addresses of your team members and, presto, you’re done! And the most fantastic is that this feature is available to everyone, not just administrators.
We also appreciate that using Office 365 or to everyone, regardless of their ease with new technologies. Other software like SharePoint does require a little more education and training for successful implementation. But groups with Office 365, you can really save time and money without sacrificing the collaborative work that represents the future in many industries today.
An ultra efficient tool for teamwork
An ultra efficient tool for teamwork
And when we effectively said is true! The Office 365 groups allow you to group conversations in one place. In fact, each team member can initiate a conversation or reply to a comment in the space Conversations / Feeds – which avoids the endless exchange of emails where it is difficult to meet.
Added to these notifications (alerts) emails you can of course customize to not miss anything. And for those who use an older version of Outlook, you simply subscribe to conversations about you to monitor in real time.
The Office 365 groups are also a great way to work with external partners such as suppliers, consultants, freelancers or representatives, for example. Although a bit more limited guest access allows all the same to receive information by email, invitations to meetings, view shared and respond to conversations files.
Do you want more? The groups Office 365 include several features you will not be able to spend as you:
● the SharePoint site to work in teams and share content;
● the stickers to classify your efficient and logical data (manually created labels or automatically);
● Notepad (OneNote) for taking notes (text, images, sound, handwriting and screenshots);
● the shared planner (Planner) to assign tasks to colleagues and make your project management;
●Shared Calendar (Calendar) to schedule meetings and ensure compliance with the scheduled maturities.
And, you guessed it, the Outlook group also simplify your work on the go through their mobile accessibility. The Office 365 application is available for download at Google Play and App Store.
But that’s not all! The Office 365 groups are also compatible with the software, the most popular platforms and applications like Aha, Asana, Azure AD, GitHub, MailChimp, Overflow, SharePoint, Stack, Teams, Trello, Twitter, Yammer and Zendesk, to name only those.
