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In the uncertain times that we are living, if there is something clear is that the companies that best adapt to the new circumstances will have many more possibilities to survive. Due to the forced confinement of the population, many companies are being forced to implement teleworking.<\/p>\n

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If companies have the necessary tools and their type of business allows it, this implementation will probably be successful. In this series of articles we are going to focus on one of these tools.<\/p>\n

One of the tools that allows companies to telework from home is Microsoft Teams<\/a>,<\/strong> a collaborative communication platform. It includes, among others, chat, video for remote work meetings, file storage and integration with Office 365<\/a>, <\/strong>from the Redmond company itself. And as everyone knows, Office includes such popular tools as Word, Excel or Powerpoint.<\/p>\n

Many companies have been using Microsoft Teams for years. But in recent weeks, due to confinement and the high demand for teleworking, it is gaining great prominence. Specifically, Microsoft Teams<\/strong> has managed to rise to the not inconsiderable figure of 44 million total users, having observed a growth of 12 million daily active users in a single week, according to Business Insider<\/a>. Really spectacular figures but logical, after all, in the current context. And the expectations are that it will continue to grow…<\/p>\n

But how can this tool help us in our day to day? You will find hundreds of tutorials, of course, so we will approach this article from an agile point of view.<\/p>\n

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How can Microsoft Teams help us in our agile environments?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As most of you know, the most widely used agile framework is Scrum. And as many of you also know, Scrum is based on three pillars: transparency, inspection and adaptation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The environment that Teams gives us also does. Being an online and collaborative tool, it promotes the transparency <\/strong>of all our processes, and this further encourages the inspection <\/strong>capacity that we will have on all of them, since the environment offers us multiple ways to monitor, review, analyze and find all our work on a single platform. And finally it allows us to adapt to a world in constant change, which takes on special meaning these days. We all need to stay home. What better adaptation <\/strong>to this reality than the adoption of a tool that facilitates teleworking and brings us virtually closer to the rest of our teammates?<\/p>\n

The answer to the question that opens this section is obvious. Teams will allow us to do practically everything we did in person remotely<\/strong>. And it practically depends on our work, but in some cases, we will not notice the difference. And it will add another series of options that were not possible to do in person. There are other tools, obviously, but the integration in the Office 365 suite gives it that plus that others do not have.<\/p>\n

What do I need?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the problems that can make us go back to teleworking is the need to acquire \/ install additional software or have a certain hardware, expensive to a greater or lesser extent. But Teams, being a web client<\/strong>, allows you to access all its functionalities from anywhere and from any device. This is all you’ll need:<\/p>\n