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 …
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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…
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Demo of Microsoft Planner - Organise and Track Your Work
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How To Use Microsoft Planner For Meetings - Microsoft Teams Tutorial 2019
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August 01, 2022
Microsoft Planner: Great for Small Businesses
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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???).
- 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
- Task Management
- Project Management
- Team Collaboration
- Task board layouts, especially for team collaboration
- Creating tasks with complex details
- Tracks
- Adjusts
- Informs
- Displays
- Tasks
- Need lots to login.
- Clunky UI interface.
- Expensive, used only by large orgs.
- 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.
- Organize tasks by person
- Assigning dates to sub-tasks
- Making tasks dependent on one another
- Calendar
- Integration with other Microsoft apps
- Team collaboration
- Simplicity
- Flexibility
- Customisable backgrounds (very limited)
- Displaying of information on cards