Webinar: Microsoft Teams – Remote Collaboration in the Time of Pandemic

On March 25, 2020, we heard from two organizations trying to make remote work “work” over their existing Microsoft Teams infrastructure during the current global pandemic. Please enjoy the attached recorded video of this session.

Amanda Downing of L.L.Bean presents their experience deploying Microsoft Teams for workgroups, leveraging Teams’ conversation based workload management, chat, meetings, and connections to other O365 applications. She shares an earlier “day in the life” remote worker profile, as imagined when some employees had to work remotely due to office construction. Amanda then reveals what they’ve learned during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and which aspects of Teams have turned out most valuable. Amanda also demonstrates portions of their environment in her discussion.

Roo Dunn opens with H+K Strategies’ global Teams migration experience: organizational integrations with MS Teams components, why, when, and how. Then he shifts toward their late-deployment reality — the global COVID-19 pandemic — and discusses lessons learned so far as some strategies shifted “on the fly.”

MTUG thanks our volunteer board members Kristen Kucera and Joe Bourgault for assistance in coordinating the topic and speakers for this session.