A day in the life of an IT project manager using Microsoft Teams


7:45 am

Jamal uses his Teams mobile app to get up to speed the activity feed as he travels to work and joins the daily stand-up call remotely.

8:30 am

At the office, he navigates to the Azure DevOps dashboard tab in Teams. Jamal reviews his projects and notes a few trends that are concerning.

9:30 am

On Teams, he asks for additional data points related to projects risks and @mentions specific individuals to get their attention.

11:30 am

Jamal joins a project review meeting in Teams, shares his screen, and navigates to the Planner tab to review key activities by owner and adjusts due dates.

2:00 pm

He prepares his meeting notes and replays the Teams cloud-based meeting recording for things that he may have missed. He @mentions the channel with updates and action items in Planner.

3:30 pm

Jamal gets notified in Teams of a new bug that was posted in the channel from the Azure DevOps connector. He @mentions experts to help to resolve in time for their release date.

4:30 pm

In Teams, he goes to the Financial app tab to update current resource costs for several of his projects.

6:00 pm

Jamal receives another notification from Azure DevOps notifying him that the bug is being resolved. He prepares for his weekly status report and posts it into the PMO Teams site, @mentioning the team.