TechValidate Research on Stack Overflow for Teams

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Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

We are specialized for the CAD construction of large-scale timber construction projects. For this highly specialized work we use Stack Overflow for Teams for sharing our knowledge, ideas and manuals and keep it for new employees, even when experienced employees leave.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for Teams makes it much more easyer to let new employees find instructions for technical and administrational issues.
Furthermore, it makes it clear from the start that given the size of our projects, they can only be successful in collaborative teamwork and the sharing of knowledge. So with Stack Overflow for Teams as one important element we live the culture of shared knowledge and support of each other.
Only with this culture we could grow and be successfull.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

The central knowledge repository has helped onboard [employees] faster.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. It’s easy to use.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

67% of surveyed organizations brought in Stack Overflow for Teams to improve operational efficiencies.

67%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

Organizational effectiveness

69% of surveyed organizations brought in Stack Overflow for Teams with the goal to improve organizational effectiveness.

69%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

Companies bring in Stack Overflow for Teams to break down silos between teams

44% of surveyed organizations stated that one of the challenges they were looking to solve by bringing in Stack Overflow for Teams was breaking down silos between teams.

44%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

Companies bring in Stack Overflow for Teams to remove roadblocks or barriers

46% of surveyed organizations stated that one of the challenges they were looking to solve by bringing in Stack Overflow for Teams was removing roadblocks or barriers.

46%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

Reduce the time to onboard new hires.

54% of surveyed organizations stated that one of the challenges they were looking to solve by bringing in Stack Overflow for Teams was reducing the time to onboard new hires.

54%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Statistic

Companies bring in Stack Overflow for Teams to capture institutional knowledge

68% of surveyed organizations stated that one of the challenges they were looking to solve by bringing in Stack Overflow for Teams was capturing institutional knowledge.

68%

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

We’ve recently started using it, so no statistics there really, but I see the positive result.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

It is as good as other solutions, however, it is more habitually to the IT, as most of us already using SO for getting information or help others to get one.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

It increased our communication in a worldwide team. Thanks to Stack Overflow for Teams, we managed to create a different way of thinking, based not only on what we think is important but also because new questions make us realize what is needed.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. The Question and Answer format is perfect for knowledge sharing as it decreases the need of mind-dump based documentation.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Being an early-stage startup, we always had the problem of giving the same KT or explaining the same code culture to every new team member. Stackoverflow for teams made it easier by putting those questions in one place with the goodness of StackOverflow Q&A UI.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, definitely. Because of the same reason mentioned above.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

We have been using an old-style documentation platform. Searching the documents and organizing them has been a huge burden for the developers. By integrating Stack Overflow for Teams, the discoverability of knowledge has been drastically improved. The time spent by seniors mentoring juniors has been reduced. The knowledge base is gradually increasing so that we get more and more queries from the juniors where we can ask them to go refer to Stack Overflow for Teams.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. For a software development company, Stack Overflow for Teams will definitely add value to organize their knowledge base and make it more discoverable.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

It filled a hole in our practices by allowing us to easily document and discover documentation. Overall it has made us more efficient.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. The Q&A format has proven effective at discovering solutions to problems and every IT professional is already familiar with Stack Overflow. So it made sense to use it to document institutional knowledge.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Led folks to search for answers on their own before immediately distracting someone from their current ongoing work. Previously, we were innodated with Slack interruptions.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, was simple to get started and the community manages itself.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Now many of our questions and answers are all in one place instead of having to search Slack to find a link to Confluence which might link to Google Drive. This helps everyone find answers to their questions and get unblocked faster.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes – the question/answer format is great for capturing information that otherwise would be lost in a slack thread or a less-than-stellar Confluence search.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Since we have been using it for a short time period I can’t really say that my organization has changed but all the members acknowledge the value and the power of Stack Overflow for Teams for:
1. How someone is asking for questions
2. Where they can find it
3. And how to keep in mind that questions may be valuable for others so they should be using Stack Overflow for Teams for the future.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

I would recommend it for many reasons. The main ones would be:
1. Easy onboarding
2. Good integration with ChatOps like Teams
3. Source of knowledge and knowledge sharing

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Exchange of solutions has improved.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Definetely. A common repository of solutions.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Our business is beginning to become more collaborative with shared Q & As because it’s demonstrably useful, and fun!

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

If your organisation has reached a point where there are a lot of commonly asked questions, and institutional knowledge, I would definitely recommend Stack Overflow for Teams.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Spreading knowledge throughout the company is always a challenge and this will unlock more potential going forward. It will change the way our company finds the right information. It hasn’t changed yet but as we roll it out further, I expect to see improvements in all areas.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, it is a great way to share knowledge and empower teams. The search capability and usability makes it easy to find the relevant information quickly.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

I would. Stack Overflow for Teams is a great knowledge repository for our company that has encouraged a culture of mutual learning and teaching between team members at all levels.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Easier to keep track of all cloud setup instructions for various platforms.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, will recommend. Easy to use and very clean to browse through questions/answers.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Our software developers are very familiar with Stack Overflow and use it daily to help solve difficult technical problems. Stack Overflow for Teams brought that benefit to our internal environment where we can capture knowledge and collaborate on problems that are either specific to our environment or security-sensitive and can’t be shared externally. Our biggest challenge, however, has been generating enough content to jump-start internal use.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for Teams brings a great public tool into the internal environment. It’s a simple, easy and effective way to capture team expertise.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

We use it internally and for beta testing purposes. We include our Beta testers in our teams in order to interact and to provide feedback.
Knowledge and conversations are starting to be more frequent and knowledge is being accumulated/preserved in a repository for later questions.
Conversations changed from “one to one” to “one to many” with side collaborators. That increased team collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. Many people, especially developers, use Stack Overflow so the UX is natural for them. If you have a “sharing and growing together culture” it is a very good tool.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, because every dev already knows SO, so is just using it again but for private issues.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Before SO4T (as we almost universally refer to it) we didn’t have a good searchable knowledge base. Software developers’ prior familiarity with StackOverflow and the intuitive Q&A format allowed us to quickly build up a substantial repository of expert knowledge. Now when someone solves a problem or creates something new, a standard question for them is “did we add this to SO4T?”

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, I do recommend it often to other IT managers and professionals due to our organization’s success with it.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Adoption is still light, and only within the Engineering organization, but SO-style answers and the ability to search has improved employee onboarding and shifted Q7A away from platforms like Slack, where answers are lost in the history.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

I would in the capacity that our team uses it, a Q&A platform for engineering teams.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yeah – the ability to document clearly in a question/answer type format is much nicer than in a wiki format.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Technical knowledge has become less siloed.

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes, very natural low barrier way of maintaining organizational knowledge.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

The process to move old members to So for teams is slow but all news guys are pushed to use it and it’s now the first knowledge base used to solve technical issues within the teams.
We are avoiding now the resolution of technical issues on other tools…

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes for sure.

Stack Overflow for Teams Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Stack Overflow for Teams:

Would you recommend Stack Overflow for Teams?

Yes. It’s a useful tool, and allows for questions which may relate to private and confidential information without risk of exposure to the wider Stack Exchange community.




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