This is where Microsoft Planner comes in - to ultimately bring back those customers that have implemented Trello or may be tempted to. These offered a more agile way of working and were very team-driven, not just project-based.

Many organisations started to move towards other solutions that filled the void quite well, such as Trello. Also who here doesn’t often head towards the “Dismiss All” button or keep snoozing their reminders. And while Outlook tasks can be categorised, filtered, and even assigned to others - they are very basic in nature.

The big issue with the Project suite is that unless users get trained on the product they generally craft relatively basic project plans and don’t utilise anything more than 5% of the feature set.īeneath that the best that we could use in the Microsoft stack was Outlook tasks. Microsoft has for a long time had available Project Server and Project Online to provide organisations with enterprise-grade project management solutions, however they have been very costly solutions - even with the cloud model. This product became known as Microsoft Planner (aka Office 365 Planner). Some time ago the Office 365 MVP community was made aware of something called “Project Highlander” which we were told was a team-based task management solution.

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