Microsoft Teams and the cost of collaboration
Published on Friday, 9th April 2021
I set up a Microsoft ‘Team’ - the institutionally supported technology - for a project I was working on.
Easy enough to set up, but as the project grew, it was necessary to add more and more ‘members’ to the team. As the owner of the team I felt a responsibility that everyone should know who has access to what - but this became impossible to manage properly. No-one knew who could ‘see’ what, and what is Microsoft doing with all this data?
Sometimes the things you thought Teams could do are on the ‘road map’ and have been for years, and the more you become entangled in it, it becomes almost impossible to ‘switch’. So in the end, we just deleted it all and tried to find yet another ‘tool’…