What I have learned about my team

 I am interning in the One Drive and SharePoint team that is further divided into different organizations. My organization is called SharePoint experiences which further consists of the Viva Topics teams. The Viva Topics team works on integrating Viva Topics into existing Microsoft products like the office suite, Microsoft Teams, and One Drive and SharePoint. Viva Topics is a new Microsoft product aimed at helping organizations better manage knowledge resources. It offers a way to create documentation about different topics that they can search, tag, and share among members of the team. An easier way I understood Viva Topics is to view them as internal web pages in an organization that are authored for different topics.

As an intern on the Viva Topics team, I have learned about this new Microsoft product that I did not know about before. The most interesting aspect of Viva topics team is how it feels and operates like a startup within Microsoft than other teams that work on existing products. Last summer I worked on the Microsoft Excel team that supported a product which is over thirty years old. Everything in Excel was more laid out and the tasks were a lot clearer because some engineer on the team had prior experience with the assigned task. However, in Viva Topics, some of the project assignments are to test whether integration is possible or what the limitations of integrating Viva Topics in other Microsoft products are. The excitement of working on novel project tasks comes at the expense of not having so much technical support from other team members. For example, I have found it challenging to work on my internship project that aims at integrating Viva Topics in Microsoft Teams mobile because I am the first engineer working on this integration.