Teams app developers play a key role in ensuring that their app adds value for users using it within Teams. As a developer, you must familiarize yourself with Microsoft commercial marketplace policy #100.8, which states that “Apps must provide enough value to justify the investment it takes to learn and use them. Your app should provide significant benefits such as enhanced efficiency, innovative features, or strategic advantages. Simple utilities, apps with limited scope, or apps that duplicate offerings in well-served areas aren’t a good fit for the commercial marketplace. Apps must provide a useable software solution.”
This module is intended to give you an overview of Microsoft commercial certification policy #100.8 via real-world scenarios related to #100.8 policy failures that are encountered during app validation with suggestions on how you can avoid them. Using the example of a hypothetical Contoso Polls app, the module also shows how you, as an app developer, can provide significant value to users within your Teams app. Upon completion, this module helps you to make the right product decisions for your app during the design and envisioning stage to avoid a costly rework of the app’s workflows during app validation, should your app be deemed to not meet Microsoft commercial marketplace policy #100.8.