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Also important in my field (education) is compliance with records management laws, which means that we do as much as possible with just MS tools in order to avoid needing to export and manage data from so many different sources. We are currently moving projects from Trello to MS Teams + Planner for this reason even though the workflow will likely be worse.

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Is teams records management compliant? I know it isn't in my country

It depends on what you do with it, but in my estimation, not really (and it's actually easier to export data from Trello assuming you pay for Business Class). But our IT and records people seem to believe that having everything under the same vendor umbrella is an improvement over having data scattered between services, even if some of the components don't actually offer full compliance.

From a bureaucratic perspective, what auditing feedback looks better:

A: "You're not compliant, what the hell were you thinking using this 'Trello' thingie ?!?"

B: "You're not compliant but it's fine, everyone uses Microsoft like you do so it's probably not possible to be fully OK, we are all in the same boat..."

Feedback B can easily go up the chain with no repercussions. Feedback A cannot. It's a sad world.

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