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Collaborating in the Teams Hub
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PART5 UsingtheRightToolfortheRightPurpose
FIGURE 15-4:
Starting a conversation about a document in Teams.
We used to think that the “email tree” phenomenon was isolated to big enterprise environments, but it often rears its ugly head in small organizations, too. Imagine the following scenario: Someone sends an email to three people asking for their input on something. Two of the recipients immediately respond. Recipient #3 replies to Recipient #2 but forgets to reply to all. Now Recipient #2 has informa- tion the others don’t have. Recipient #1 then forwards the email to yet another person (Recipient #4) who replies to all with his feedback, which doesn’t account for what’s already been discussed prior to him being involved. Pretty soon, every- one’s mailbox explodes with replies to replies and replies to all that the sender finally throws her hands up in frustration because now the conversation has got- ten out of hand and she’s spending too much time getting everyone up to speed. On top of that, she now must consolidate all the feedback manually.
Teams makes email trees go away. In Teams, the sender can avoid the previous sce- nario by uploading the file into the Teams channel, @mention the people she needs feedback from, and start a conversation right from the document in Teams (see Figure 15-4). This way, everyone sees everyone’s comments and edits. A new person joining the conversation can just scroll up to get up to speed and everyone is happy.
Creating and managing a Teams hub
To collaborate in Teams, you first need to be either a member of a Teams hub or the creator of one. To create a Team: