Keeping everyone in your group informed can be challenging, but Teams allows you to create channels of chat-based discussion on the topics important to your group. You can do everything from brainstorm ideas for a new building design to conducting an informal poll on where to go for lunch. You can choose which tabs appear within each channel so that everyone can see important shared content like project specifications or links to Office documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Need to get immediate feedback on a project idea? With Teams, you can hold an online Skype-based meeting instantly with all members of your group or have a private meeting with your manager. While you could use Skype for Business as well, the conversations and meetings are not saved in a single, organized location. Teams lets you keep your conversations and meetings within the context of your discussion channels for easy reference when you need it.