Plan, Deliver & Operate Microsoft Teams –Teams Academy Summary

The last video in the series from successwithteams.com academy is Plan, Deliver and Operate. The video is here

Ive found the content a little out of date which is the nature of Cloud and how fast Teams is being developed. Ive tried to compare the session content to content available now and highlight any difference. I suspect the online videos on Teams Academy will be updated soon.

Overview on practical guidance to help getting started with your Microsoft Teams Journey

Intro from Bob, who an architect on customer experience and deploying team.

Training is for Partners and customers and anyone that wants to learn about the tools available to prepare for your Teams deployment.

Session is an overview and is NOT a deep dive!

Session Agenda

Introduces the Success with Teams website, review practical guidance asset and intros into Academy for Teams and the Bandwidth Calculator.

Downloadable documents are features and online academy and BW Calc

Also mentions make sure you remember the core resource for Microsoft Teams is

https://www.successwithteams.com

and if You need it BIGGER. lol

Lets dive in with the Successwithteams.com website

Dedicated website for Microsoft Teams for your Teams journey

Has had an update since this session from recorded, below is screenshot from sept 2017.

Top of page is navigation and starts with focusing on Downloads https://www.successwithteams.com/Download

This page does seem to have been updated since the session please see below, this is of September 2017.

It now has three parts (September 2017)

Microsoft Teams Pre-workshop Questionnaire – Captures information ahead of workshop
Planning Workshop for Microsoft Teams – Drive interactive conversation to get started with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Workshop Decision Points Summary – Document decision points throughout planning process

Go ahead and download all i recommend.

Let look at Practical Guidance and Planning Workshop Kit

Once downloaded you will the see the following files

Recommends starting with the README file.

I just downloaded and you can see there has been some updates and there is. There only three assets it seems now. and ReadMe is v1.2

The Practical Guidance for Microsoft Teams document seems to be missing or moved somewhere else now perhaps now. I believe this has moved to Get Started Tab on Success with Teams website where its now an online version of the document as below. Guessing this can be updated as and when required and easier to manage for Microsoft.

Updated download file as of Sept 2017.

The session Recommends you start with the ReadMe File which gives a summary on each document which ive extracted below. Here the ReadMe v1.2 file extracted.

The Microsoft Teams Practical Guide and Planning Workshop Kit are comprised of 4 assets. (Says 4 assets but only three listed below, perhaps this needs updating as there was 4 before it seems in README v1 listed on session)

1. Microsoft Teams Pre-workshop Questionnaire.docx
2. Planning Workshop for Microsoft Teams.pptx
3. Microsoft Teams Workshop Decision Points Summary.docx

The Microsoft Teams Pre-workshop Questionnaire.docx is intended to be used to collect basic information about an organizations current Office 365 environment, to allow an informed workshop leader to customize content prior to leading a Microsoft Teams Planning Workshop.

The Planning Workshop for Microsoft Teams.pptx is intended to be used by a knowledgeable resource to deliver an interactive conversation to assist with getting started with Microsoft Teams. The workshop will introduce the attendees to Microsoft Teams while also guiding them through decision points and next steps.

The Microsoft Teams Workshop Decision Points Summary.docx is single asset to track all decision points and next steps from the Planning Workshop for Microsoft Teams and the Practical Guidance for Microsoft Teams document.

It is highly recommended that any individual looking to lead a Microsoft Teams Planning Workshop has been through the available training at https://aka.ms/teamsacademy, has also reviewed all the above materials end-to-end, and has hands on experience with Microsoft Teams.

Please also ensure you have downloaded the latest materials at: www.SuccessWithTeams.com.

Practical Guidance Document which i believe is now online.

Guides through the process of Plan, Deliver and Operate

Breaking down the Practical Guidance Document as made up of several sections

Introduction

Plan – Based on where decision need to be made

Deliver – Guidance on execution of next steps from decisions made in plan.

Operate – Monitor usage and quality, Security and Compliance and Troubleshooting

Appendix – Deep dives to additional content

In Plan

Guided to provide information on Teams Journey

Recommended steps for Rollout

Guided to make decisions along the way as well

In Deliver

Guided to execute the decision points and next steps from the planning outcomes.

Steps such as controlling tenant level features and user licencing

enhancing existing office 365 groups with teams

and use of tabs, bots and giffys.

Operate

Information on maintaining a healthy Teams environment out of the box leverage excellent Office 365 security and compliance features.

Monitoring service health for troubleshooting and logging tickets

GOAL of operate to provide enough information to allow you to engage in daily Monthly and weekly tasks.

Appendix for dive dive into the architecture and foundation of Teams

As written above i think this may now be online content for pratical guidance so check it out here https://www.successwithteams.com/GetStarted

Planning Workshop Kit

These three documents seem to be included in the most recent download.

The Planning kit designed to assist technical resource assigned to plan, deliver an operate teams, this can be a consultant, partner or internal resource.

Delivered in multiple parts

Questionnaire – to collect basic environment information to allow customise of workshop to meet that specific customer needs
PowerPoint Presentation to assist with driving interactive session with project team
Tracking document to track decisions points and next steps in one document.

Pre-workshop Questionnaire

Asks simple questions around the existing Office 365 environment to assist workshop leader to customise presentation so its relevant for customer in planning workshop.

The doc is still the same and is v1.0 from March 2017 the fill questions from the document are as below

Planning Workshop

PowerPoint deck designed for workshop leader to drive an interactive session with project team to introduce, inform and drive process for decisions and next steps for rollout.

Covers a wide range of topics

and is aligned to previously discussed practical guidance document.

Guidance is also in workshop deck and important workshop has experience for Teams.

Workshop leader needs to be prepared to guide project teams in settings up and guide the project team into using Microsoft Teams. This will help the project teams drive and understand decisions.

Having hands on experience will help drive the workshop and help drive the workshop. If the project team have hands on experience they can actually make decisions based on experience as well.