Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner is best suited for small businesses that need an easy to use project planning software solution that is quick to setup and not complicated to use. Microsoft Planner is useful for small businesses that don't need all the complexities and steps that Microsoft Project requires in order to use it.

I think Planner is a good platform for manage projects especially if I think that is integrated in MS Teams so, with a unique platform you can have the control about the project, about all the documents linked to the same project and at the same time, with the possibility to chat with other team members without change platform.
I think also there are other platform (like Jira or Trello) which are better in terms of layout

Appropriate: [Microsoft] Planner helped to remember the minor tasks that we used to forget. Helpful to manage the tasks of [the] team. Moreover, we can check the schedule of a particular board and thus know what tasks need to be done on [a] priority basis. Less appropriate: When we assign a task to someone, they do not get any email notification. Thus, have to convey [a] message through some other source.

You cannot use it for project management. It is suited for Kanban style task boards very much needed to keep everyone on the same page. Great for task management and operational activities It has zero ability to assign a time or integrate with a time tracking tool or calendar tasks. This means you cannot do a time & cost analysis on your ongoing projects or business operations.

If you currently use Microsoft Office software and Office 365 then this is a must use. The integration of those items is very clean and smooth. The average age of our office is 50 and some of them had trouble swapping over. I am 32 and thought it was fairly simple. Communication and task management is where this software shines the most in my opinion

Microsoft Planner is a well-suited tool if you want it to be integrated with other Microsoft tools. It helps you to manage multiple projects with multiple different teams to manage their tasks and see the overall project status at a place. It also helps teams to share files in the respective group and everyone in the group will be notified of any newly added tasks.

However, If it is required to follow agile effectively with proper story points then would recommend going with more powerful tools like Jira to manage things in a more effective manner and (Jira cloud) have integration available now with team also which is a great add-on

I would recommend Microsoft Planner to anyone who is using Office 365 apps and would like to leverage the best in class native connector to link the tasks, documents and conversation from the other Office 365 apps with their Planning platform. The ability of Planner to integrate and connect with Office 365 cloud is really commendable and highly useful. It has all the required features that one would need for creating, managing plans and tasks for simple - really complicated and large enterprise level projects!

My rating is higher because as a tool that is included in our Office 365 / SharePoint account, it allows us to manage our content workflow from planning to publication without having to spend money on additional tools. With 80+ users needing to have access to this, purchasing an outside tool would be pretty costly, and this is a decent alternative. That being said, there are probably much better tools out there for content management/assignment.

Microsoft Planner is well suited for task planning needs for managing different projects. It is well suited for tracking tasks, planning sprints, assigning tasks to other team members, viewing deadlines, and tracking timelines. It also helps with Microsoft Teams integration and sharing task details with other members via Teams.

It could be improved in terms of providing more details to individual tasks/cards, dashboarding, and export capabilities.

Since it is part of the Office 365 suite of products, you’ll end up paying for plenty of tools you’ll not be using. To function properly, we must use all the other tools in Office 365 plus Microsoft Project. It's interesting for medium and big teams and it's a good tech resource for Microsoft users. It is a suitable product for companies that have a good Microsoft product contract.

Well suited for very light, quick and easy team tasks management. Not suitable for large project management, or enterprise context, in which MS Project-like software would be recommended.

keeping a team on task for one cohesive project would be its best use. workers who work on different aspects of a project likely will have little use for this product. Though it is nice to be able to see what others are working on, this may add to the 'clunkiness' of the user interface.

I recommend this software for basic and intermediate use. For large projects it is not recommended because some resources are missing. But in my case it meets my needs. The Microsoft Planner tool has helped me a lot to stay organized, planned my activities that must be developed during the week, month, semester. Integration with e-mail allows reminder and pending notifications to be triggered. Collaboration with other members of the IT team is great for monitoring the progress of other activities in parallel and which are dependent on mine.

I think this is a good built-in option for someone using Office 365 and doesn't want to spend additional money on a project management tool.

Our best use of Planner is the creation of an onboarding template that allows HR to assign multiple tasks to individuals across different departments and follow up to see that they're all done on time. Microsoft Planner falls short in its ability to allow users to customize their setups and edit backgrounds (beyond a few provided by the platform).