Microsoft Planner Description
Streamline collaboration with Microsoft Planner, transforming disorganized teamwork into efficient productivity! This tool simplifies the process for teams to initiate plans, allocate and organize tasks, share documents, engage in discussions about ongoing projects, and monitor progress updates. You can easily access Planner via the Office 365 app launcher with just one click. From there, you can swiftly set up a new plan, form a team, designate tasks, and adjust statuses—all in a few straightforward steps. Each plan features its own dedicated board, enabling you to arrange tasks into various categories. You can sort tasks by their current status or by the team member assigned to them. Adjusting task statuses or changing assignments is as simple as dragging and dropping items between columns. The My Tasks view offers a detailed overview of all your assignments and their current statuses across every plan you are involved in. When collaborating on a project, each team member has clear visibility into who is handling which tasks. Tailored for Office 365, Planner allows you to attach relevant files to specific tasks, collaborate on those documents, and hold discussions centered around particular assignments, fostering a more connected and efficient team environment. Additionally, the intuitive interface encourages all users to stay engaged and informed as projects progress.
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Good for project forecasting and budgeting Date: Oct 01 2023
Summary: It's a valuable tool for project budgeting.
Efficient with time tracking on tasks done.
Elegant and convenient for workflow automation.Positive: It's just an incredible software with project budgeting and forecasting.
Incredible for daily to do lists.Negative: It's such a superb and incredible for project budgeting.
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It's a gladiator of team collaboration and instant messaging. Date: Apr 04 2022
Summary: Super impressive with team collaboration and instant notifications.
Excellent to track time on task and schedule team meeting.
Mobile app is very friendly.
Magnificent with task assignment.Positive: Very impressive software with instant messaging.
Super convenient with team collaboration.
Great with project planning and scheduling.
Excellent with task scheduling.Negative: It's a great software with team collaboration and ease of use.
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High Quality Project Management Date: Mar 11 2022
Summary: Overall I’d recommend Microsoft Planner to anyone already using the Microsoft 365 suite or anyone considering it.
Positive: This software is great for planning tasks, collaborating with teammates, and supports high quality integrations.
Negative: There really aren’t any cons of Microsoft Planner that I’ve encountered.
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Fully indebted to it with file sharing collaboration Date: Aug 01 2021
Summary: Extremely effective with task assignment.
Intuitive user interface.
Reliable with expense management.
Convenient with workflow automation.Positive: Very excellent and solid for file sharing collaboration.
Extremely effective with project management.
Cloud based access of project documents.
Reliable with expense management.Negative: It's an excellent app with task management and no challenges.
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MS Planner is another great integrated tool for the MS/Office 365 Suite Date: Jul 17 2021
Summary: Planner is a great solution if you are an existing MS/Office 365 user and need basic task management or simple card format type for project management (Agile Scrum/Kanban board). Perfect for small business!
Positive: Really easy to use and collaborate with others on the project or office team. It's included (for "free") in MS/Office 365 and well integrated into MS Teams to maximize collaboration.
Negative: Standalone competitor tools like Monday, Asana, and Airtable have a lot more functionality, features, and direct support.
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Planner is SUPER Helpful! Date: Mar 29 2021
Summary: Overall, Microsoft Planner has been a very helpful tool to our team. It helps us plan projects, have efficient meetings, and keep track of all our individual tasks. It is user-friendly and has a mobile version as well, in addition to the online version. Very helpful!
Positive: Microsoft Planner is really helpful to our team! We use it for to-do lists, meeting agendas, delegating administrative tasks, and planning events. It is simple and easy to use!
Negative: I wish it synced better with Microsoft Teams and had its own desktop app. I hope these features will be available in the future!
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Versatile and efficient with project management Date: Feb 18 2021
Summary: Great tool and more collaborative for teams to communicate.
Supportive customer support.
Helps a lot with to do list and organising daily tasksPositive: Great product from Microsoft with project management.
Faster to set time taken on tasks.
Great and customizable dashboard.Negative: Faster to track time on task and most affordable to use.
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Super convenient with task prioritization and affordable. Date: Feb 17 2021
Summary: Affordable and most robust with task prioritization.
Reliable to track time.
Convenient with project scheduling.Positive: Cost effective.
Easy to share documents with team members.
Excellent with assignment of tasks.
Reliable with project scheduling.Negative: Great and most convenient with task management and cost effective.
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Lightweight, straight forward features with documents management. Date: Feb 17 2021
Summary: Mobile friendly app and reliable to track the tasks.
Chats make team collaboration simple.
Efficiency with budgeting for project.Positive: Faster to share documents with teams.
Reliable to track and organise work and tasks.
Their customer support is very responsive.Negative: Most effective with task management and user friendly customer support.
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A good project management app from Microsoft Date: Aug 14 2020
Summary: Microsoft Planner is a simple, lightweight and efficient task management tool which is useful in project planning and management. It comes as a part of certain plans of Office 365 which makes it cost effective as well.
Positive: Good interface
Lightweight application
Integrates well with the Office 365 apps
Timeline view for better task management
Has a good application for smartphonesNegative: Needs default templates
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Outstanding features with assiging the daily task Date: Jul 28 2020
Summary: The dashboard is customizable with most important tasks and the urgent ones.
Greatly effective with expense management.
Reliable with content and documents management.Positive: Helps alot to assign the daily task and give priority
Reliable with documents management and easy to share them.
Very effective with time tracking and expense management.Negative: Greatly effective with project management and time tracking.
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Good for Team collaboration Date: Jul 28 2020
Summary: Microsoft Planner is a good task organization tool and provides a simple yet effective way to organize teamwork. It makes it easy to create plans, organize & assign tasks, share files and chat with teammates.
Positive: Easy to use
Great visual interface for clear visibility and organization
Good for collaboration
Syncs and works across devices
Part of Office 365 suite
Great mobile appNegative: It should be better integrated with Microsoft Teams for more efficient use.
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Smart and more convenient with task management Date: Jul 22 2020
Summary: Smart and more effective with task planning and project budgeting.
Easy to schedule the meeting.
More suitable with daily tasks.Positive: It's have smart features with task planning.
More effective with scheduling the meeting.
Easy with time tracking and user friendly customer service.Negative: More convenient with task planning and easy to use because it's awesome.
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Competitive and awesome with task management Date: Jul 21 2020
Summary: Secure and reliable with project tracking.
More effective with time tracking.
Great and more convenient with task management.Positive: Secure and more affordable with project planning.
Reliable with content editing and sharing.
Great with file sharing and very cost effective to use.Negative: Reliable and more convenient with project management.
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Useful tool comes with Microsoft 365 bundle Edited: Jul 18 2020
Summary: Microsoft Planner is a great project planner and team collaboration platform. We had an overall positive experience with it. Microsoft planner comes in a bundle of Microsoft 365. It enables us to collaborate, communicate and plan for our projects effortlessly.
Positive: #1- It comes in a bundle of Microsoft 365 services. So no need to buy plans separately.
#2- Effortless team communication and remote file sharing.
#3- Enables planning and collaboration for projects.Negative: #1- We don't have any negative experience with it.
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