smattering of applause for teams

A moment to think about the UX of tools used by (in my case) those making UX.

I think most devs who have used both Slack and Teams would prefer Slack. I've griped about Teams before - the "Teams" part of it feels more like shared email threads or blog-posts-with-comments than dynamic conversation. 

A recent update to Teams helped mediate that a bit; now a single "Chat" sidebar (which is where a lot of devs will live) includes Teams and channels, and both chats and teams posts can appear under a single unified "favorites" section.

I think there's still a conceptual problem where a persistent sense of "group chat" doesn't exist in Teams as an entity; while in theory a team could invite the right people to a group chat and rename that group, in practice I find most teams doing Agile gravitate to using the chat attached to the daily standup for intra-day chat, since there's a strong correlation with who needs to be there and who is in standup. It's simpler than having people have to think about which chat to use, or in which an earlier message is likely to be  found.