In Office 365, there are applications that use Office 365 Groups; each application is intended to best fit where the user is working depending on the needs and the audience.
These tools are:
- Microsoft Teams: Centralized app that users need to work on a team model together
- Outlook: An enterprise tool that is used to send and receive email and organize more personal work, it have normally structured data, based on email communications, calendar and contacts
- Yammer: This is an enterprise-class social network
- Skype for Business: Real-time communication software with presence and unified communications
- SharePoint Online: A central place to have intranet, documents, and lists
It is advised that you have a journey to implement Microsoft Teams using a methodology that helps your organization launch a successful project. Use the following phases to implement a project with each phase to deploy Microsoft Teams:
- Technical and legal evaluation
- Assess/prepare
- IT pilot
- Business pilot
- Rollout
In each project, you need three basic tasks to be successful:
- Plan
- Deliver
- Operate
Without those simple phases, you cannot leverage Microsoft Teams to the next level. The Microsoft Teams journey is shown in the following figure:
