What are Teams in Tempo Timesheets and Tempo Planner?

welcome to this introduction to teams in tempo timesheets and tempo planner for JIRA cloud according to the dictionary teamwork is the combined action of a group of people especially when it's effective and efficient in tempo teams are a powerful tool that can facilitate teamwork among individuals across your organization a tempo team is a group of JIRA users who work on projects together in some way and the value of tempo teams comes from the way they're organized for example you can have tempo teams that reflect the teams in your organization such as a group of developers who all report to the same manager or teams can include members who all have different roles but all work together on the same project such as in an agile work environment whether you're managing your own staff a dedicated team or a cross-functional team template teams help you easily manage their time why should you use tempo teams do you need to use them if you're a small company with only a few people you might not actually need to use teams at all however in most larger companies people from different departments or locations work together or they may work in an agile environment organizing them into teams makes it easier to manage their time in tempo another reason to use teams is if your organization is using tempo planner a resource manager or team lead plans work for the team members and approve their plans finally if your organization has adopted the timesheet approval process with tempo timesheets team members must submit their timesheets to their team lead for review and approval team leads are an important part of a tempo team and who's assigned this role in tempo depends on the type of team it is if your manager it's typical to be a team lead for the staff who reports to you but for a scrum or special projects team you may be the team lead for members from different groups in your organization within the tempo team structure you could even be a team lead of several teams similarly an individual can be a member of different teams in this course you'll find out how to set up your tempo team for doing whatever you need follow along in the next lesson to learn how to create a team