{"meta":{"title":"Organizing members into teams","intro":"You can group organization members into teams that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.","product":"Organizations","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/organizations","title":"Organizations"},{"href":"/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams","title":"Organize members into teams"}],"documentType":"category"},"body":"# Organizing members into teams\n\nYou can group organization members into teams that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.\n\n## Links\n\n* [About organization teams](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams)\n\n  Teams are groups of organization members that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.\n\n* [Creating an organization team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/creating-a-team)\n\n  You can create independent or nested teams to manage repository permissions and mentions for groups of people.\n\n* [Adding organization members to a team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/adding-organization-members-to-a-team)\n\n  People with owner or team maintainer permissions can add organization members to teams. People with owner permissions can also add non-members to a team and the organization.\n\n* [Assigning the team maintainer role to a team member](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/assigning-the-team-maintainer-role-to-a-team-member)\n\n  You can give a team member the ability to manage team membership and settings by assigning the team maintainer role.\n\n* [Setting your team's profile picture](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/setting-your-teams-profile-picture)\n\n  Team maintainers and organization owners can set a profile picture for a team, which is displayed on the team's page.\n\n* [Managing code review settings for your team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/managing-code-review-settings-for-your-team)\n\n  You can decrease noise for your team by limiting notifications when your team is requested to review a pull request.\n\n* [Renaming a team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/renaming-a-team)\n\n  Team maintainers and organization owners can edit the name and description of a team.\n\n* [Changing team visibility](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/changing-team-visibility)\n\n  Team maintainers and organization owners can determine whether a team is visible or secret.\n\n* [Configuring team notifications](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/configuring-team-notifications)\n\n  Team maintainers and organization owners can configure notifications for specific teams.\n\n* [Synchronizing a team with an identity provider group](/en/synchronizing-a-team-with-an-identity-provider-group)\n\n  You can synchronize a GitHub team with a supported identity provider (IdP) group to automatically add and remove team members.\n\n* [Moving a team in your organization's hierarchy](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/moving-a-team-in-your-organizations-hierarchy)\n\n  Team maintainers and organization owners can nest a team under a parent team, or change or remove a nested team's parent.\n\n* [Requesting to add a child team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/requesting-to-add-a-child-team)\n\n  If you have maintainer permissions in a team, you can request to nest an existing team under your team in your organization's hierarchy.\n\n* [Requesting to add or change a parent team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/requesting-to-add-or-change-a-parent-team)\n\n  If you have maintainer permissions in a team, you can request to nest your team under a parent team in your organization's hierarchy.\n\n* [Removing organization members from a team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/removing-organization-members-from-a-team)\n\n  People with owner or team maintainer permissions can remove team members from a team. This may be necessary if a person no longer needs access to a repository the team grants, or if a person is no longer focused on a team's projects.\n\n* [Managing scheduled reminders for your team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/managing-scheduled-reminders-for-your-team)\n\n  You can get reminders in Slack when your team has pull requests waiting for review.\n\n* [Deleting a team](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/deleting-a-team)\n\n  Organization owners can delete teams at any time from the team's settings page."}