In this post, I’m going to show how Microsoft Teams can integrate with other applications to streamline your Product Management processes.
If you’re not familiar with Teams, please check out our overview. Additionally, we covered some helpful integrations for Project Management, which could surely help any Product Management team.
I’ve taken several product management-oriented apps on a test drive to call out where the integration feels seamless and others that aren’t quite so robust. And if you’re still considering options, I’ll highlight how some features complement and others are redundant. Sadly, when I started this research, I hoped for more integration points than I found. While there are powerful Product Management applications available, the partnership with Teams hasn’t reached a priority for their customers. Custom apps can also be created and uploaded, but that topic will not be covered in this series.
As stated in the last post, the software descriptions below are not meant to be exhaustive. All of these are amazing stand-alone products. This series is designed to call out the integration points specifically with Teams if you are considering new investments or trying to rationalize ones already made.
Smartsheet is an application for collaboration and work management that is used to assign tasks, track project progress, manage calendars, share documents and manage other work.
While quite a few impressive features are fully integrated into Teams, there are still a few missing:
Aha! is a strategy and roadmap application that allows Product Management teams to plan their vision, strategy, features, ideas, mockups and releases for each of their products. It integrates with Slack, Salesforce, GitHub and more.
UserVoice is an application that ties customer data to product feedback to help prioritize features on a product roadmap. It allows users to identify trends, perform A/B testing and view customer spend. In all transparency, I was hoping to sign up for the free 14 day trial to test this integration, but UserVoice is phasing out the trials. The screenshot below is from the live demo on their site.
If this is integration you are interested in, use their UserVoice page to be heard.
Pivotal Tracker is an agile project management for real-time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
The next set of blogs on will focus on Customer Service, Recruiting, Sales/Marketing and Developer/Coding work groups and will include integrations for the following, and a whole lot more!
Check back in a couple of weeks when I’ll share tools for Sales and Marketing. If there are other connectors you’d like us to take on a test run, of if you’d be willing to share your experience using Teams for Product Management, please let us know via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or solutions@amaxra.com.