Coffee Junction App by Embee

In any physical office, the coffee machine area is a place to re-connect with colleagues. But what if we are working in a remote environment? This is when the Microsoft Teams based Coffee Junction app comes into action. It helps in making the employees feel like a team, even if they do not work together on the same project.

Features of Coffee Junction App

• WPA system to provide the back-end logic of pairing of employees based on score tie (strong/weak) along with diversity and centrality score.
• A personal scope tab would have the option to configure the employee preferences like:

1. Frequency
2. Busy Day 
3. Add the blocked list
4. Upcoming pair of employees.

• The Bot would provide a welcome card on joining / during onboarding for the configuration of preferences.
• Bot scheduled the meeting based on pre-defined logic, setting and parameters which gave an adaptive card with options like Accept / Reject / Reschedule (changing the time slot).
• Teams' scope for meeting tracking status. It will be persistent storage for scheduled meetings taking place along with status tracking for analytics purposes.

Key Benefits:

1.  The bot does the heavy lifting of finding a new person to meet with as well as suggesting times that are free for both teammates.
2. Hold virtual coffee junction assemblies to enhance collaboration among employees. 
3. Gives employees the flexibility to set up their preferences, provides meeting suggestions to improve networking ties.
4. The app provides a welcome card on joining / during onboarding for the configuration of preferences.

Tools and Technologies Used-

1. MS Azure Web App Bot
2. Logic App
3. Azure SQL DB
4. Azure Key Vault
5. MS Graph API
6. MS Teams App (Personal Tab, Task Module, Adaptive Cards)