Build your collaborative app
Let’s briefly go over what initiatives are the most impactful during the build stage.
What should you as a developer do during the Build stage?
- Alignment on business drivers, success metrics and path to liquidity for your collaborative app.
- Commitment to build a high-quality and sticky collaborative app on Teams and monetize the app via transactable SaaS subscriptions on the marketplace.
- Understanding of and adherence to platform fundamentals and Teams app design principles.
- Executive commit for multi-quarter app roadmap and GTM investments.
- Identification of pilot customers and getting their agreement to provide feedback on the app and adopt once published.
Where can Microsoft help?
- Access to proven best practices to build a differentiated, collaborative Teams app.
- In-depth developer documentation with elaborate platform features to build a high quality app.
- White gloved support through PM, development and design experts from Teams Engineering for strategic developers through the invite-only build-with partner program.
- Support for customer inclusive app design and development for strategic developers through the invite-only build-with partner program.
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