Collaborating through Microsoft Teams and Outlook

Microsoft Teams is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools to come out of Microsoft. Teams gives us the ability to talk to our colleagues on a regular basis and communicate effectively across multiple teams and multiple channels. We can run meetings and save documents in Teams, giving us unlimited capabilities to manage a project across a whole organization. Therefore, it is worthwhile outlining how we can best integrate our project into Microsoft Teams so as to keep our users from context switching throughout their day. Context switching refers to the process of a user needing to sign in to a specific application to perform a function on such a periodic basis that it is disruptive and detracts from productivity during the working day.

Utilizing Microsoft Teams to perform some functions such as project overview and time entry keeps context switching to a minimum. This results in less multitasking, resulting in your team members...