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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