What are they?
In this short video I outline what App Templates for Microsoft Teams are, and why I think they are good for lots of different people.
Why App Templates?
Open Source, free to use production-ready apps
Solving real-world problems
Great source of best practice and how-to for developers
Where can I find out more?
Blog post: App Templates for Microsoft Teams – What are they, Why do you care, and Why should EVERYONE be using them!
Microsoft docs: App Templates for Microsoft Teams
The apps
Productivity
Communication
Specific
Question Answering
Team Culture
How to Deploy App Templates
Apps for Productivity
Attendance app: Record presence of attendees in learning & training classes
Book-a-room bot: Automated room-booking bot
Celebrations app: Celebrate team member birthdays & anniversaries. Can also be used to remind about any recurring event, such as important deadlines
Expert Finder bot: Find the right person in your organisation by searching skill keywords
Group Activities app: Create and manage group activities
Icebreaker bot: Pair random team members together from across the organisation.
Incentives app: Employee incentivization managmenet
Remote Support bot: Support Request management
Request-a-team app: Automate and manage Microsoft Teams creation
Scrum Status bot: Run asynchronous stand-ups and share daily updates.
SharePoint List Search app: Search and insert information from SharePoint lists, directly in Microsoft Teams
Apps for Question Answering
Crowdsourcer bot: Crowd source answers to questions and build up a knowledge base of information
FAQ Plus bot: FAQ bot with human hand-off
HR Support bot: FAQ bot designed for supporting HR departments
Quick Responses app: Build a knowledge base of answers and use to quickly answer questions
Apps for Communication
Associate Insights app: Capture customer feedback from firstline workers
Company Communicator app: Send messages to large numbers of people via Microsoft Teams chat
Incident Reporter bot: Incident management system
Apps for Team Culture
Celebrations app: Celebrate team member birthdays & anniversaries. Can also be used to remind about any recurring event, such as important deadlines
Custom Stickers app: Upload, share and use a custom set of GIFs, images and stickers
Icebreaker bot: Pair random team members together from across the organisation.
Apps for Specific Use Cases
Associate Insights app: Capture customer feedback from firstline workers
Attendance app: Record presence of attendees in learning & training classes
Book-a-room bot: Automated room-booking bot
HR Support bot: FAQ bot designed for supporting HR departments
Incident Reporter bot: Incident management system
Open Badges app: Earn and display Badgr learning badges
How to Deploy App Templates
You might think that deploying these apps are hard, or that you need to be a developer - but if you can follow instructions then you can deploy these apps! Each of the apps listed above comes with a clearly documented set of deployment instructions and architecture diagram.
Don’t believe me?! Here’s me deploying the Icebreaker bot by following the deployment instructions:
Hello! I'm Tom Morgan, author of all the articles on this page, and of all the posts on this blog. I'm passionate about building great applications for Microsoft Skype for Business and Microsoft Bot Framework, and I'd like to show you how to do it! I work at Modality Systems as a software engineer, developing applications with and for Microsoft Skype for Business. If you liked this page, why not signup to the newsletter, subscribe to the RSS, or follow me on Twitter.