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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
so one thing we realized on our journey was to not name teams like
CONTOSO - DEPT/team name
CONTOSO - functional team
CONTOSO - working group
because basically folks will have a harder time navigating since every team would have the prefix - company name
so we did it a bit differently around having all official dept teams/working groups/functional groups created by IT up front with specifics.. and then everything else created by users is up to them..
don't beat yourselves up over "team sprawl" it's kind of designed that way
Thanks Kevin Watts Our new system is working well - with the exception of the cross functional teams but as suggested above we will use channels for that. Definitely going to borrow "team sprawl" love that.
It makes me wonder how many of you have users who have created "The Dream Team".......search through your teams you probably have at least one ;-)
- We don't have a Dream Team, but we do have a Food Channel...
