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JohnKelly
Brass Contributor
Mar 27, 2019
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Microsoft Teams Naming Conventions

 I have a slight dilemma and I can't seem to find useful resources online so I was hoping to pick your collective brains? The problem I have is around naming conventions. The directives we establishe...
  • Sara Hällgren's avatar
    Sara Hällgren
    Mar 29, 2019

    We have two suggestions.

    PREFIX (the IT department first choice, due to 'search-ability'):
    ORG-management-name

    PRJ-management-name

     

    There is also a suggestion to have shorter prefixes, ORG=O, PRJ=P


    SUFFIX (the users first choice):

    Name (ORG-management)

    Name (PRJ-management)

     

    If you have suffix it's more simple for the user to see what team they are in and you can @mention the team with better names, for ex @prj-management vs. @thenameyouhavechosen

     

     

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Terence Rabe
Copper Contributor
Mar 28, 2019

JohnKelly to add to what others have said, it also makes sense to set a guideline length for the Team name. Since you can't (at time of writing) change the width of the column that displays Team names, you should limit the name to 20-25 characters to prevent them from being truncated in the interface.

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