Vineforce

Check ins - every user goes through the same routine daily
Agenda Before M365 is connected
Agenda for the day - Road map for your day gives you all your Meetings, tasks, flag emails, from outlook, to do's and planner
Teams Meetings Integration allows one click joining to call without leaving your agenda
Activities - shows Microsoft teams presence along with other 365 data and other work data such as schedule, break time etc
Alert to check out - provides daily balance and over working, also will alert in Microsoft teams
Check out - Give you summary of scheduled team meetings and calls for that day

## Inspiration

For the past 7 years, I have been managing a team that stretched from Miami to India, Pakistan, Jamaica, and the Philippines. As a former SharePoint consulting and remote worker for over 12 years, I struggled to manage my day and enforcing a consistent routine across my team.

Some of my struggles were:

Providing inspiration to each team member at the start of each workday
Enforcing the discipline of starting the workday with a plan while simplifying the planning process.
Having a single view of my day - meetings, scheduled breaks, tasks, flagged email, etc.
Seeing what my team was planning to work on without daily stand-ups or check-in meetings
Monitoring team morale and availability across multiple time zones
Simplify managing and aligning goals to work being performed by me and my team
Helping team members feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of each day
Having a clear accomplishment history for each team member that aligned with progress made on projects or goals without the need for them to write a report

## What it does

Vineforce is a complete toolkit for successful remote teamwork:

Check-Ins - Routines to get you energized for work and helps teams plan a balanced, goal-focused agenda by automatically aggregating their work from To Do's, planner, OneNote, OneDrive Outlook, and more.
Agenda – A road map of your day – meetings, scheduled breaks, tasks, flagged emails in a single view.
Activities – Monitor team morale, availability, and what they plan to work on each day across multiple time zones.
Goals – a simple progress tracking framework that seamlessly integrates into your team’s daily routine.
Check Outs - End of day routines to help remote teams feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment.
Automations – pre-built templates to automate your workflows with Power automate and Vineforce.

## How I built it

Vineforce is built using Angular, .Net, Azure (SQL, functions, etc.)

## Challenges I ran into

Managing check-ins across multiple time zones and show it in a simple way
Creating a solution for team members who did not check-out at the end of the workday
Harmonizing Microsoft Teams user presence with actual availability

## Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Simplicity of our app
How it works in harmony with other M365 features
How efficient it has made us internally

## What I learned

It's best to build products you actually use becuase its easier to test and you have a unique vantage point
Break features down as small as possible so you can get a since of accomplishment early and see the value of each feature
Focus is key to creating great products, strive to remove distractions
Simplifying your internal processes helps you move faster