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Stack Overflow for Teams Overview

What is Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge-sharing platform that facilitates the collection, curation, and dissemination of your company’s knowledge. We do this by providing a platform that’s familiar to developers, embedded into developer workflows, and closes the distance between people and the knowledge they need, using gamification to encourage contribution and engagement. The community-based platform connects knowledge seekers and domain experts through an easy-to-use Q&A tool developers already know with additional functionality built in to ensure institutional knowledge is validated, accessible, and up-to-date both now and in the future. OverflowAI, our new GenAI-powered features for Stack Overflow For Teams Enterprise, helps connect technologists to solutions faster by doing the heavy lifting of searching for technical and institutional knowledge by surfacing and sourcing answers in natural ways, in the environments developers work in.

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Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform that helps teams solve challenges at each stage of the development lifecycle. Access the knowledge you need, when you need it, to build better products.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Developers and technologists are habitually on Stack Overflow searching for solutions, asking questions to get help, sharing their knowledge, and advancing their skill sets. In fact, over 50 million developers rely on Stack Overflow with 81% visiting the site at least a few times per week. It’s critical to their career success, but not all knowledge belongs in the public domain.

That’s where Stack Overflow for Teams comes in - it’s a private instance of Stack Overflow for your company so you can discover both public and private knowledge. Since Stack Overflow is already integral to how technologists work, Stack Overflow for Teams makes it easy to share institutional knowledge in a private, central place.

Stack Overflow for Teams is used by companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, looking to boost productivity and collaboration with persistent, just-in-time knowledge sharing.


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Stack Overflow's public platform serves 100 million people every month, making it one of the 50 most popular websites in the world. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers. Our products and tools help developers and technologists in life and at work. These products include Stack Overflow for Teams, Stack Overflow Advertising, and Stack Overflow for Talent and Jobs. Stack Overflow for Teams, our core SaaS collaboration product, is helping thousands of companies around the world make the transition to remote work, address business continuity challenges, and undergo digital transformation.

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"this is my best review for Stack overflow"
there are lot of things there, but I like this platform to learn something. there are multiple questions and answers to find out solution and it is...
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"very usefully for all the tacky solutions"
For every tacky questions we have all the solution to help all the developer
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4.0 out of 5
"Stack Overflow teams for an associate developer"
I like the search feature, as it's a helpful way to catalogue and search previous posts for bugs, as well as their solutions.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

There are several things to like about Stack Overflow for Teams --

1. There is very little getting used to when it comes to Stack Overflow for Teams, as most devs are familiar with Stack Overflow.

2. The search functionality is so seamless and works well all the time.

3. Adding information to the knowledge base is very intuitive; when there is a doubt, ask questions; when an area is updated, make suggestions or revise answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

As of now not much to dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams. There are products in Stack Overflow for Teams which we are not fully utilizing yet, like long-form articles, slack integration, and so on. will give them a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are currently using it as a Q and A platform, hoping to extend it to the go-to knowledge base for all things tech in the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KP
Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

A Private SO instance has been great for our new-ish remote org. It enables easy async communication, as well as excellent search. In the past, we never really had a central place for tech/business questions outside of other tools. My most liked feature is tags, which allow teams to focus on questions directed at them or their product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

There isn't much to dislike about the private instance. My one primary feedback would be more distinction between subject matter experts vs. watching a tag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem being a central place for questions and answers. We've relied on our chat programs too much, as well as other solutions that not many people use (like confluence). They have always been clunky, and answers get lost over time. It's been easy to onboard people and get them to use this tool, as well as create collections and search for old answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Head of Portfolio Management Platform
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

As a tech guy I am using stack overflow for years now. I really appreciate the power of finding good answers to difficult questions. With stack overflow for teams I can now use this power even for our internal knowledge management. People from all departments can contribute their knowledge which is a big win for our teams since it reduces the number of distractions that experts get when someone wants to know something from them. Another very positive fact is, that knowledge is peristent and searchable which is a big win over knowledge that just sits in the head of some experts. Everybody can search for solutions and finds them as soon as there is a certaincritical mass of posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It would be nice if i could integrate questions of a certain topic (tag) into existing Wiki/Confluence pages. For example it would be nice to have a RSS feed per tag. This could be integrated into the documentation of our services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We want to create a persistent knowledge base that helps to distribute knowledge without friction to everyone that needs it. We also want to reduce knowledge bottle necks. We realized that as soon as there is a certain amount of questions and answers, the system is used more frequently as it provides real value from this point on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

christophe g.
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The Q&A format is much better than the Wiki format to internal knowledge alive. Especially tagging and comments are very usefull.

Searching ia a breaze. The editing interface is really easy to use.

And above all, it's now free for small teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

For a private Q&A Knowledge base keeping, the limits of public Q&A is crazy. Admins should be able to freely upvote or downvote or change Q&A owner.

Site administrators should be allowed to select or change accepted answers, to freely downvote or upvote questions and answers, including one's own Questions or Answers. Such feature is critical to draw users attention toward content. It's an integral part of public SO Experience: great questions or great answers have more points. As in a small private team we can't count on crowd to upvote or downvote the only alternative it to let curators do it, which could means site administrators in SO for Teams, but even allowing it for anybody would be better than current settings. In the current state of the product administrators can delete or edit questions or answers from others, and that's all, which is far from being enough.

Unavailability of these features - which looks rather arbitrary and dumb, a mere lack of thinking about the differences between a private Q&A with a handful of users and a public one - blocks our current SO for Teams from becoming the curated private Q&A site I expected at first. It makes it much less useful and much more frustrating than I expected.

Basically, I was willing to optimize the content of our SO for Team site for the benefit of our team (and as an old user of public SO I am a big promoter of Q&A format to keep internal knowledge)... but the current SO for Team didn't let me do it. I'm still hoping SO for Teams will eventually fix these issues (come on, it looks easy), but it was nearly enough to make me drop the use of SO for teams or review existing free Q&A engines (UI far from good enough when you are used to SO) . Basically what made me stick with SO for Teams and keep trying to make it useful is that it became free for less than 50 users. It's easier to explain to my boss that the expected benefit is not there when the product is free.

Also, administrators should also be able to offer bounties which makes much sense in a private Q&A. This would be a great tool to improve content and also to open new types of use (to focus users on most needed content).

A private Q&A teams should certainly not be a democracy, not if we want to keep a quality content in it.

Less critical: I would very much like the ability to clone content from public SO Q&A to private SO for Teams. Some internal Questions already have solution on public Stack Exchange and it would be really handy to cherry pick the usefull content from there (and eventually edit it afterward to make it fit better internal use). Of course I can already do that by copy pasting from public SE content, but it's awkward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are gathering internal knowledge: the correct way to use our product, the solution to common bugs and problems, typical system commands to resolve issues for technicians. The Q&A format is also an interesting frame to keep content short and avoid very long wiki pages that nobody reads. The ability to classify issues and solutions using tags is paramount.

But the benefits are less than expected. Our team is small and we basically only have about 20% percent of content contributors the others being mere passive readers. It is hard to draw attention of passive readers on available content especially because most usefull Questions and Answers won't stick out and are lost among less usefull content as we are adding it. We are always on the verge of stopping updating the content because it is unclear if it actually gives us an actual benefit or is only a useless burden.

At some point we tried to use the Q&A format to select between alternative solutions to implement some required feature. This was interresting as an experiment but only a partial success (because we would have liked to use upvote/downvote on questions to classify features and votes on answers to classify alternative solutions, but it can't be done because of current product limitations). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The "private" StackOverflow, to be able to ask questions specific to an organization's environment and technical configuration is priceless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

There needs some time for the teams to get used to posting questions and replying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Starting with configuration issues, then technical and business specific questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Good platform for knowledge exchange inside a company or departement

Easy handling due to known platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The platform works quite nice, but everyone has to keep the discipline for a good content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy knowledge exchange inside a large group of colleagues. Reduced "single-points-of-knnowledge" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Giacomo M.
GM
Team Leader
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

So for teams is a special tool to share knowledge across the organization. It uses a familiar QA mechanism and interface (literally every developer has seen the "normal" stack overflow and has had some experience with it), so it is immediate to grasp and use right away.

In our organization it is widely used both to provide technical guides and to collect all common blockers in a single place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

There are no actual downsides since it is already a familiar tool for every developer who uses it; the only thing that can go wrong is organization-specific usage and conventions. If your moderators have a real hands-on experience and familiarity with the community practices used on the public Stack Overflow and try to apply them, I can't see any significant issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were looking for a way to collect common issues and blockers that every developer encountered while working on our products and related technologies. We tried different tools such as Confluence, Wikis, Slack, Google Drive, but each one of these was ultimately incomplete or difficult to use and search.

Because every developer on earth is already proficient in searching and using Stack Overflow we tried the private version and were very pleased both in terms of adoption and developer happiness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BB
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

As a senior software engineer, I often feel stuck in the process of training and onboarding and answering the same questions over and over. Filling out our internal knowledge base in SO for Teams has been an excellent way to reduce overhead and simplify the process. The search feature works very well for finding solutions. Also, tagging and assignments allow junior engineers to ping me on an item. The digest emails are also helpful as I can quickly see things I may have previously missed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The only downside I can think of is how it's another tool in an already complete toolbox. As long as we continue to push new engineers towards it from our onboarding communications and integrate it with our chat software, it shouldn't be too hard of an obstacle to overcome. Further integration tools with our other software would also be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

The product is good, but it is only as helpful as you make it. To benefit, knowledge holders must have buy-in to use the product to build an adequate knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using SO for Teams as a tool to help with onboarding, training, and troubleshooting. If a new engineer has issues setting up their development environment, they are encouraged to ask it in SO for Teams instead of our chat software. That way, future engineers can also benefit from the answer via searching or browsing through tags. I've realized this helps me not have to repeat myself by answering the same question multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranai S.
RS
Student
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

I like that I can easily ask questions that are specific to my team and people in my team will get my question exactly. And it serves as a repository for previous questions that a normal chat-based help channel wouldn't have since previous questions would get lost. As a beginner or a person who has recently started on a project or a task, it is a useful resource since you don't have to continuously ask anyone. It's all just there. It's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It's a little difficult to get the correct formatting, the rules and norms for stack overflow (how to cite text sources and screenshots and how much information to include/exclude). But this is mostly because I am new to stack overflow and thus over time I am sure I will get a better understanding of these things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems like technical glitches, version incompatibility, or questions regarding concepts to more experienced developers. Like for example, we used this as a private repository for questions regarding a course I was taking. If I ever had any questions regarding anything, I could simply ask and the course coordinators could answer my questions directly or other students could pitch in but this can be applicable to a lot of other scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
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What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The fact that I can ask a question about any part of my company's product or business and have it quickly answered by someone with intimate knowledge of that part of the business, as if by magic. It removes the work involved in finding out who the experts are in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It seems that there's a higher chance of duplicate questions/answers without the strict moderation on public SO. This may already exist, but it would be cool if there were a tool to identify parts of the business that often cause frustration and which would benefit from articles/content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am finding answers to questions that involve people outside of my team while saving the hassle of working out who/where those people are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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