Microsoft Planner

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

The integration with the Micrsoft O365 suite. The Planner Hub allows for a deep dive into where my task assignees allocated their times to help with a typical burn down rate in Agile project development. It helps me understand the time spent on which tasks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The intuitive functionalities, mostly the draging and dropping used in Kanban boards. This easily integrates with the MS Teams channel as a tab so that the comms and plans are all inter linked in the same place. I can create a typical customised Kanban board and simply move tasks where I need to and who I need to with easily found members who are internal or at least have an O365 licence.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The chart does not show you report on TASKS, it does show you be Status, Members, Priority and Bucket.....but knowing which Tasks are outstanding in the chart view makes it difficult to understand where to focus or support team members. Also you cannot export the tasks externally to perform analysis or even link with Power BI

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great product to have if you are a Microsoft O365 organisation with other apps like Forms, Automate and Power BI then this is really great addition. If you are lucky enough to have the enterprise O365 licence and you are developing in Agile then this tool is great for managing the Development teams activtives and assignments.

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

Compared to other similar products, Microsoft Planner comes with many features that do not require extra payments to unlock hence you are fully guaranteed of using the feature you paid for.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of this product is calender that ensures that your scheduled tasks do not overlap

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have not come across any feature to dislike so far.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend professionals in tight scheduled fields to purchase it especially for planning purposes whether time, day or any other aspect of task planning.

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

* My Tasks shows all your tasks, and team members can comment and attach files on the task in Outlook, Outlook Groups, Teams and more. * It's native to Microsoft. Especially in MS Teams, it's super to manage single tasks. * The system is accessible on any device.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

* Unlike some other task management tools, you can assign tasks to more than one person. * If you’re working on a project and want to bring in a vendor, contractor or stakeholder to see what’s going on, you can add external access. * You can put your Microsoft Planner into your Outlook through the iCalendar feed, which helps facilitate scheduling and time management.

What do you dislike most about this product?

* The tasks can not be automatically re-arranged according to the labels. * It is not friendly to the integration of different programs and tools apart from the products of Microsoft. * The most frustrating aspect of Planner is the lack of a public view of the board and tasks.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

* Please provide tasks to be automatically re-arrange according to the labels. * Integration of different programs and tools apart from the products of the Microsoft should be more friendly and encouraged. * It should provide public view of the board and tasks properly.