Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner
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What is Microsoft Planner?
Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and...
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What is Microsoft Planner?
Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.
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August 01, 2022
Microsoft Planner: Great for Small Businesses
Microsoft Planner is the project management software my small business has been looking for for quite awhile. Considered using Microsoft Project but it is too complex and not suited for the small projects we do and the type of projects we do. Microsoft Planner is the perfect project planning solution software for our needs because it is easy to learn, easy to use, and quick to setup.
- Syncs with Microsoft 365 seamlessly
- Simple but very useful interface
- Has an app that syncs to mobile phones
- Planner Tasks can be an app in Microsoft Teams
- Be able to find where the Planner data is kept. Is it in SharePoint? If so, where?
July 13, 2022
A Management Tool for Scrum Matser
Microsoft Planner is used to organize activities in different projects, especially for the ones managed with Agile practice.
With Planner, the Scrum Master (but also the traditional Project Manager), has an immediate view about the different activities/objectives for every Sprint or deadlines and about the tasks assigned to every component of the group. So you can immediately understand if a team's member has more or less things to do respect the other members of the team. Moreover, you can immediately understand if there are activities with delay or with critical points that needed to rescheduled in the future.
In our company planner is integrated in MS Teams, so with only one platform we can manage projects both on the calendar point of view but also with interactions among team's members
With Planner, the Scrum Master (but also the traditional Project Manager), has an immediate view about the different activities/objectives for every Sprint or deadlines and about the tasks assigned to every component of the group. So you can immediately understand if a team's member has more or less things to do respect the other members of the team. Moreover, you can immediately understand if there are activities with delay or with critical points that needed to rescheduled in the future.
In our company planner is integrated in MS Teams, so with only one platform we can manage projects both on the calendar point of view but also with interactions among team's members
- It helps to give to every task a different priority level
- It helps to check the job amount for every team's member
- It gives an overall view about delays and done activities
- When you mark a task as "done" it disappears from the checklist
- There isn't a back up when you cancel tasks (maybe could be useful a confirm message before the cancellation)
- The "note camp" can't be delete
October 25, 2021
Tasks workflow made easier - good value tool
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Microsoft Planner is the best way to manage all my team tasks and deliver everything on time. Previously, I was using Asana for the same workflow. But Microsoft offered this tool within the package of our outlook mail. The tool made it easy to list all the day, week, and month tasks so we can keep a track of everything at the time [in] a single place. Moreover, we can add our team members, add deadlines, set priorities, and even assign tasks to members. We were able to track all the work of our clients, i.e. where we have reached the tasks and goals for a particular client. Multiple board options made it easier to differentiate various clients and their work. Thus, the software was very beneficial for [the] overall workflow of our marketing team.
- Team tasks management
- Deadline management
- Easier workflow with different boards
- Priority tasks to be highlighted
- Should send a notification when a task is assigned to someone
- There's no option to delete comments
- Notification required when a task [has a] deadline
October 18, 2021
Planning & collaboration Software on the go
In my company, we do a lot of web projects and work with both clients and subcontractors. The planner was a Godsend mostly because it is operated via a mobile app and integrates with MS Teams so tasks show up in the app for each member. It gets the work done and keeps it out of a chat thread with minimal disruptions to your workday.
- Add as many plans as you want
- Keeps tasks organized via Buckets into each plan
- Ability to create a plan directly within Teams via the Tasks app
- Ability to assign an existing plan to a channel in Teams that was created in the mobile app
- Reminders & alerts please!
October 13, 2021
Microsoft Planner is an excellent choice for those looking for project and task management software
Microsoft Planner was implemented so that we could use it in conjunction with our Office 365 subscription. It seemed to be the best route for our company to take since the majority of our office has years of experience using Microsoft software. We were looking for a software that would allow us to plan and schedule our current projects. Being a construction company that has anywhere from 30-50 jobs under contract at any given time, it is very important to us to be able to communicate efficiently from the office to the shop and field.
- Scheduling
- Integration of other microsoft programs
- communication
- The learning curve seems like it could be reduced
- The layout isn't our favorite out of the other softwares we looked at
- Digital clutter from not seeming to not being able to create folder trees
September 13, 2021
Microsoft Planner | Great Tool to manage your project
The majority of our services use Microsoft Planner to manage their work efficiently. Its integration with Microsoft Suite and other products such as Microsoft teams/office365 makes it easier for you and your team to manage tasks.
We used it to view the project process and the assignments assigned to each team member. It also provides useful information about the progress of the project or if we don't meet our timelines.
It also helps you to create different team/groups for a common project and helps leads to manage multiple projects at one place with multiple groups
We used it to view the project process and the assignments assigned to each team member. It also provides useful information about the progress of the project or if we don't meet our timelines.
It also helps you to create different team/groups for a common project and helps leads to manage multiple projects at one place with multiple groups
- It helps you to create a proper project plan and multiple tasks
- Integration with other Microsoft products
- Easy task Management and progress tracking
- Integration with other suites like Google/Gmail
- User Interface
We use the Microsoft Planner in our organization heavily to create, manage and orchestrate the simple to complex project plans / tasks. The ability to create, edit, view and share the plan, files and timelines with the internal and external team is helpful and versatile. The smooth integration of native Office 365 apps improves the usability of Microsoft Planner. It is amazing that each new plan created in Microsoft Planner automatically creates a new Office 365 group.
- Project plan creation, managing, assigning the tasks within the team and tracking the status in real time
- File sharing, orchestrating the communication
- It enables us to communicate and collaborate with other users, and receive progress updates via various means.
- Microsoft Planner has the basic and common set of features that most other project management software already have, MS should think of adding some exclusive features apart from the traditional feature sets
- Microsoft Planner misses on native ability to manage and note the time expense of professionals working on the tasks
- Existing Gantt chart layout can be improvised by adding navigation and clear from tasks dependent on each other
June 29, 2021
Content Planning with Microsoft Planner
We currently use it for our content assignments. A piece of content is assigned to a user to create, from there it is then assigned to another user for editing and then to another user for publishing on the website, and then finally to push to our social channels. It is great to use in conjunction with our SharePoint as you can link documents to the tasks. We have our content grouped by product type so we know how much content for each of our products we are creating.
- Categorizing channels and product types
- Assigning participants allowing commenting
- Attaching documents and files
- Would be nice to see a calendar view instead of a list view
- Permissions aren't configurable, anyone can delete any task at any time and there is no recycle bin
- Notifications aren't great, you have to be attached as an owner to a task to see comments and be notified of changes, and even then notifications aren't shown for a lot of things
June 22, 2021
Great for integration with other MS products
Microsoft Planner is used to manage projects and initiatives for different teams inside the organization. It is also used to manage day-to-day activities of different teams working on a single project. Managers use it as a tool to manage roadmaps for different active and upcoming projects in their department.
- Manage active items in progress with detailed information
- Time planning and deadline management
- Categorization of different projects
- Tagging, labeling, and details for individual cards
- Reporting and dashboards
- User experience and interface
June 12, 2021
Collaborative task management for the team
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Microsoft Planner gives my team an intuitive, collaborative, and visual task management experience to get the job done. It's a simple tool to use but it adds a lot of productivity, allowing better performance. Like any organization[al] tool, it requires constant updating.
We are already using the kanban panel, but we are not yet integrated into MS Project. We plan to use this feature soon.
- Easy and intuitive kanban panel.
- Very beautiful visualization dashboard.
- Great integration for iOS system.
- Does not allow you to view all tasks and sub-tasks (checklist) in a nested view.
- Comments have character limits that can make it harder for teams to communicate exactly what they want to share.
- There is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation (collaborative tool???).
In our organization, MS Planner is used only (for the moment) by the software development team to follow shared dev tasks across technical domains or projects.
It suits us because these use cases required a very simple and accessible lightweight tool, dislike MS Project.
We also [chose] it because of its integration with MS Teams and Microsoft 365.
It suits us because these use cases required a very simple and accessible lightweight tool, dislike MS Project.
We also [chose] it because of its integration with MS Teams and Microsoft 365.
- Simple and lightweight UI.
- MS 365 integration, especially MS Teams.
- Built-in MS 365 tool (no extra licencing).
- Very user friendly Mobile access.
- No timeline.
- Impossible to link dependent tasks.
- No notifications outside the portal (except mail).
May 25, 2021
Plan my day, Plan my work, Plan my life
[Microsoft Planner is used for] task and workload management. Too often, I and others I work with
utilize sticky notes, notepads, etc. to try and remember and keep track
of immediate "To-Dos" and long term projects. Microsoft Planner not only
makes it easy to quickly create tasks for an individual, it helps us
assign tasks in larger projects, remember tasks on the go, keep track on
the progress of tasks/projects, and so much more.
- Task Management
- Project Management
- Team Collaboration
- Task board layouts, especially for team collaboration
- Creating tasks with complex details
Used across the whole organization to keep work tasks up to date and inform others of what one is looking for. Both between departments and intra-departmentally, Microsoft Planner was used to keep teams synchronized and up-to-date on tasks that needed completing. LIke access to see others to-do lists, can be a bit complicated/jumbled for those who are computer-challenged.
- Tracks
- Adjusts
- Informs
- Displays
- Tasks
- Need lots to login.
- Clunky UI interface.
- Expensive, used only by large orgs.
Our IT department has been using Microsoft Planner software to manage the activities of members. Some other departments of the company are also using it. In this space, we were able to create a list of tasks and organize them into tables and cards with deadline definitions, members responsible for a certain activity, attach files, images and view progress progress. The experience has been great so far to raise productivity, organize the assignment of activities that is passed on by the department head and keep track of everything.
- Friendly, easy and intuitive interface.
- Integration with Microsoft Office 365 and Teams.
- Notifications and reminders of activities.
- Graphics display.
- File attachment.
- Collaboration of activities in groups and visualization of the progress of these tasks.
- Lack of tagging on the boards.
- Research tool is not very effective.
Our Marcomm department uses Planner to organize tasks and workflows. We also use the forms function to allow other departments to submit a request that we can then assign to the correct user for execution. This allows the team to prioritize requests instead of taking orders.
- Organize tasks by person
- Assigning dates to sub-tasks
- Making tasks dependent on one another
- Calendar
We use planner for blueprints of company policy and procedures, such as onboarding & offboarding templates, as well as the typical project management. It's used mainly by our HR and Marketing departments and works very well in conjunction with the entire Microsoft Suite. It's ease of use makes it a highly recommendable product.
- Integration with other Microsoft apps
- Team collaboration
- Simplicity
- Flexibility
- Customisable backgrounds (very limited)
- Displaying of information on cards