From the course: Microsoft Collaboration: SharePoint, Teams, Groups, and Yammer (2020)

How collaboration begins

From the course: Microsoft Collaboration: SharePoint, Teams, Groups, and Yammer (2020)

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How collaboration begins

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- [Instructor] In most organizations, new teams come to collaboration in the same way. They begin with the realization that they need some way to be able to work together more easily. So one possibility is they have an email group, for example, a contact list in Microsoft Outlook or a shared email mailbox that can be monitored by the group. If they need to work together on documents, a file share is normally set up, perhaps something in Windows, a network share, or maybe hosted in one of the team member's OneDrives. And if there's access to chat or a similar system, this is often the time that the group will agree to have some of their communications in chat, but over time, most work-based groups will outgrow these informal tools. They'll get tired of the load on their inboxes and the email archeology. They'll hit the limits of file sharing as they approach a deadline, and multiple users want to edit a document, but only one can do so at a time, and they'll wish that they had the ability to better document the decisions that they had made in chat. At some point, one of the members of the team will say, "There has to be a better way," and they begin to look at the other tools that might be available to their organization, or perhaps look again at the tools that they are already using. And they say, "You know, the work that we're doing really belongs in an Office 365 group, in a Microsoft Team or a Microsoft Team channel, or in Yammer, or perhaps in a SharePoint team site. But which of these options is the best way for us to collaborate?" And the answer, of course, is, it depends. In the next few movies, we'll take a look at the features in Office 365 groups, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint, and then we'll return to the question of, where should we best collaborate?

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