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outcome of a meeting with another Gen Z developer who couldn’t make it to the meeting. Gen Z project manager says, “sure.” An hour went by and Baby Boomer manager keeps checking Outlook for an email to our team distribution list and sees nothing. Worried that Gen Z developer may not have the latest information before he starts coding, Baby Boomer manager finally asks the project manager if the meeting notes had gone out to the developer. Gen Z project manager says: “They sure did. I Snapped him.”
If you’re wondering, yes, this story did happen in real life. After Baby Boomer manager recovered from the initial shock, she later realized that “Snapped” meant the message was delivered via Snapchat, a popular app that obliterates everything you share with others within a few seconds.
The moral of this story is that for effective collaboration to happen, there has to be an agreement on the method and the tools to use. In Office 365, you could poten- tially end up in a situation where you’re waiting for a response to a chat in Teams only to realize that your coworker was looking for your message in Yammer. Or you could be waiting for someone’s input on a file shared from SharePoint only to realize your coworker was waiting for the file to come via email. And yes, these are true stories from a different time, different company.
In this chapter, we explore the various communication and collaboration options in Office 365 and gain enough understanding to determine which tool or tools can be used best for a particular purpose.
Exploring the New Era of Teamwork
The global availability of the Internet and the corresponding rise of intercon- nected devices have brought us to a new frontier where working together as a team no longer means being in the same building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and work- ing off of a single device tethered to a desk.
Today, teamwork can mean working closely on a project with someone whom you may not have met — and never will meet — in person. It can also mean working closely with people outside of your organization, sharing information with them while ensuring the data stays controlled by the organization. In many situations, teamwork means collaborating with a diverse workforce with different prefer- ences and varying areas of expertise.
This is a new era of teamwork we live in and it’s a challenge we’ll address with collaboration solutions in Office 365.
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