# Understanding Teams

Most organizations are divided into various different operational units. This is typically done to allow them to manage, design and increase the efficiency of their business operations to meet their internal requirements. Some are organized by technical specializations, others by activities, some by services, by geography, or any combination of those (or others). Whichever structure the organization chooses, these operational units remain responsible for the problems which occur in their own environments.

Having Teams is a way for customers to represent their organizational structure. The number of Teams that can be created per Organization is based on our [<mark style="color:blue;">Pricing Plans</mark>](https://squadcast.com/pricing)<mark style="color:blue;">.</mark>

### Understanding the Default Team <a href="#understanding-the-default-team" id="understanding-the-default-team"></a>

This, as the name suggests, is the <mark style="color:red;">`default`</mark> team in an Organization. Every and all users in the Organization will be a part of the **Default Team**.

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{% hint style="warning" %}
**Important:**

1. This behaviour/flow cannot be modified.
2. The **Default Team** cannot be deleted
   {% endhint %}

### Viewing the Default Team <a href="#viewing-the-default-team" id="viewing-the-default-team"></a>

1. Click on **Settings** on the sidebar

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2\. Click on **Teams** from the secondary navigation menu

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3\. Click on **Default Team**

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Here, you will be able to view:

* All the [<mark style="color:blue;">`Members`</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/manage-users/add-and-delete-users) of this Team (your entire Organization)
* The [<mark style="color:blue;">`Roles`</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/manage-users/user-permissions-access-controls) of these <mark style="color:red;">`Members`</mark>
* The associated [<mark style="color:blue;">`Entities`</mark>](#entities-in-squadcast)
* Any defined [<mark style="color:blue;">`Squads`</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/manage-teams/squads)
* Team-specific [<mark style="color:blue;">`Settings`</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/manage-teams/create-and-delete-teams)

### Entities in Squadcast <a href="#entities-in-squadcast" id="entities-in-squadcast"></a>

Each team has ownership of specific entities that they are responsible for, or are unique to them. You can easily search for these entities or filter them based on their owner.

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The entities include:

1. [<mark style="color:blue;">Escalation Policies</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/escalation-policies/create-and-manage-escalation-policies)
2. [<mark style="color:blue;">Schedules</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/schedules/schedules-legacy/create-and-manage-on-call-schedules-and-rotations)
3. [<mark style="color:blue;">Services</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/services/adding-a-service)
4. [<mark style="color:blue;">Status Pages</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/status-page/status-page)
5. [<mark style="color:blue;">Postmortems</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/postmortems/create-postmortems)
6. [<mark style="color:blue;">Runbooks</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/runbooks/runbooks)
7. [<mark style="color:blue;">SLOs</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/slo-tracker/configure-and-monitor-your-slos)
8. [<mark style="color:blue;">Webforms</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/webforms/webforms)
9. [<mark style="color:blue;">Global Event Rules</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/global-event-rulesets/global-event-rulesets)
10. [<mark style="color:blue;">Live Call Routing</mark>](https://support.squadcast.com/live-call-routing/live-call-routing)

All such entities owned by a Team are indicated here.

*Have any questions?* [*Ask the community*](https://community.squadcast.com/view/home)*.*


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