How to create subgroups for @mentions in Microsoft Teams

Question

Right now I have a small group of people beta testing MS Teams in hopes that it would be a good team collaboration/communication tool.

But, I need one important feature to really make it most useful and I can't find it.

I know you can mention everybody with an @team or @channel, or a single user with @username. But can I create subgroup names that include a subset of the entire team?

Let's say I have a big team of 25 users. I want to create certain subgroups, like @group1 that only includes 10 of those users or @group2 that only has 5 of those user.

I need to have a one mention way to contact this subgroup without having to individually mention each person or using @channel to mention to a lot of people who aren't interested.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Make 2 channels:

• @group1
• @group2

Ask people to join a channel or add them manually.

Now you can mention them by that channel name i.e. @group1 or @group2

For example, imagine you have developer and operations teams in your "Adme Inc" company.

• You create a Team "AdmeInc".
• General channel is created automatically.
• You create a channel Dev in that team and add all developers to it
• You create a channel Ops in that team and add everyone in operations team to it.

Now everyone can chat in General about all kind of stuff. Anyone can mention @Dev anywhere and everyone in developers team is notified. Or they can mention @Ops anywhere and everyone in operations team is notified.