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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...
We have two suggestions.
PREFIX (the IT department first choice, due to 'search-ability'):
ORG-management-namePRJ-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
JohnKelly very good question, i think all of us need to know a simple naming convention, but...
in our case, we used a logical prefix for the use case of the team. after that a two digit for the year (if a team has a time limit) and at least a logical name (Customer name or a short description).
here an example:
PRJ-19-<Customer> PRJ for Project / 19 for the Year 2019 / <Customer Name>
this helps for select easy all Projects, or Projects in the year 2019 or Teams with the customer <xy>
so you can build your own free Prefix for your use case... ;-)
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
Sara Hällgren both excellent suggestions. Thank you. I'm settling on the following at the moment.
ORG = Organisation wide responsible
GEO = Our standard geo location code
Function = Function or Department
Name = Team Name
+G = Team has Guests
ie
ORG-Mktg-Digital+G = Our Organisation wide Digital Marketing Team with guests.
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