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Teams that need a collaboration, project management, and task planning solution
About Microsoft Planner
Organize teamwork with Microsoft Planner. Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. Launch Planner from the Office 365 app launcher with a single click. You can then create a new plan, build a team, assign tasks, and update status—in a few easy steps. Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks based on their status or on whom they’re assigned to. To update the status or change assignments, just drag and drop tasks between columns. The My Tasks view provides a comprehensive list of all your tasks and their status across all your plans. When working together on a plan, team members always know who is working on what. Built for Office 365, Planner lets you attach files to tasks, work together on those files, and even have conversations around tasks.
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"Fully indebted to it with file sharing collaboration"
Posted 2021-08-01Pros: Very excellent and solid for file sharing collaboration.
Extremely effective with project management.
Cloud based access of project documents.
Reliable with expense management.Cons: It's an excellent app with task management and no challenges.
Overall: Extremely effective with task assignment.
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Intuitive user interface.
Reliable with expense management.
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Pros: 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.
Cons: Standalone competitor tools like Monday, Asana, and Airtable have a lot more functionality, features, and direct support.
Overall: 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!
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Pros: 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!
Cons: I wish it synced better with Microsoft Teams and had its own desktop app. I hope these features will be available in the future!
Overall: 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!
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Pros: Great product from Microsoft with project management.
Faster to set time taken on tasks.
Great and customizable dashboard.Cons: Faster to track time on task and most affordable to use.
Overall: Great tool and more collaborative for teams to communicate.
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Supportive customer support.
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Pros: Cost effective.
Easy to share documents with team members.
Excellent with assignment of tasks.
Reliable with project scheduling.Cons: Great and most convenient with task management and cost effective.
Overall: Affordable and most robust with task prioritization.
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Reliable to track time.
Convenient with project scheduling. -
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Pros: Faster to share documents with teams.
Reliable to track and organise work and tasks.
Their customer support is very responsive.Cons: Most effective with task management and user friendly customer support.
Overall: Mobile friendly app and reliable to track the tasks.
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Chats make team collaboration simple.
Efficiency with budgeting for project. -
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Pros: Very flexible with time tracking.
Easy to report on projects.
Most convenient with task prioritization.Cons: Most convenient with time tracking and workflow management.
Overall: Efficiency to report on projects.
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Faster to share documents with teams.
Instant messaging is guaranteed with team communication. -
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Pros: If you are looking for a lightweight application to organize and plan tasks for team then Microsoft Planner is a good choice. It provides a great interface with a timeline view which helps in task organization. The flawless integration with other Office products is also a great feature.
Cons: It is not as feature rich as Trello or Asana which are both better alternatives if you have a larger project.
Overall: Microsoft Planner is a decent task planner tool with a great board view and is good enough for basic projects.
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Pros: Good interface
Lightweight application
Integrates well with the Office 365 apps
Timeline view for better task management
Has a good application for smartphonesCons: Needs default templates
Needs advanced features like search, filter or tagging in cardsOverall: 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.
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Pros: - MS Planner integrates perfectly into the entire Office 365 ecosystem and the users do not have to look elsewhere for this one thing.
- The UI is very good and the color-coding of cards is a super useful feature according to me.Cons: - I think an option to clone previous plans and structures in order to modify it and build over it can really save my time.
Overall: MS Planner is a great alternative for those who use the entire office suite but have been using some other tool just for project management. This helps you integrate everything together.
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"Outstanding features with assiging the daily task "
Posted 2020-07-28Pros: 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.Cons: Greatly effective with project management and time tracking.
Overall: The dashboard is customizable with most important tasks and the urgent ones.
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Greatly effective with expense management.
Reliable with content and documents management. -
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Pros: 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 appCons: It should be better integrated with Microsoft Teams for more efficient use.
No desktop version - no offline usage.Overall: 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.
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"Smart and more convenient with task management"
Posted 2020-07-22Pros: It's have smart features with task planning.
More effective with scheduling the meeting.
Easy with time tracking and user friendly customer service.Cons: More convenient with task planning and easy to use because it's awesome.
Overall: Smart and more effective with task planning and project budgeting.
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Easy to schedule the meeting.
More suitable with daily tasks. -
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"Competitive and awesome with task management"
Posted 2020-07-21Pros: Secure and more affordable with project planning.
Reliable with content editing and sharing.
Great with file sharing and very cost effective to use.Cons: Reliable and more convenient with project management.
Overall: Secure and reliable with project tracking.
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More effective with time tracking.
Great and more convenient with task management. -
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"Terrific experience with task management"
Posted 2020-07-21Pros: Terrific experience with task planning.
It's very easy to use and intuitive user interface.
Reliable with time tracking and great customer service.Cons: Great customer service and reliable with task planning.
Overall: Nice customer support.
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Effective with task planning and so user friendly.
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Pros: #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.Cons: #1- We don't have any negative experience with it.
Overall: 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.
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"Probably the best with time tracking. "
Posted 2020-07-16Pros: Time tracking helps a lot with payroll.
It's very easy to use and straight forward software to use.
Great and amazing features with task management.Cons: It's effective and more admirable with project management.
Overall: Great experience and usability is so simple.
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Nice and user friendly dashboard.
Reliable and more effective with task planning.
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Pros: It's easy to schedule task.
Easy to prioritize on the task on the basis of most urgent to the least urgent.
The dashboard is customizable which keeps me updated all the time.Cons: Great and more effective with project tracking and easy to use.
Overall: It's great and more reliable with time tracking.
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Helps to be able to prioritize on the tasks and set due dates for them.
It's customer friendly and cost effective. -
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"Excellent for planning meeting with project management"
Posted 2020-07-15Pros: Easy to organise and schedule meeting.
Reliable with project planning and user friendly.
It's very affordable and easy to use.Cons: Great software and reliable with scheduling projects.
Overall: Overall experience with Microsoft planner is reliable with project planning.
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It's cost effective and easy to install and deploy.
Great customer support. -
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"Convinience with time and expense management"
Posted 2020-07-10Pros: Great software with expense management.
Easy features with task prioritization and assignment.
Helps to schedule project.Cons: Great software and more easy with project tracking.
Overall: Easy to track the projects and activity.
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Great with reliability with time management.
The customer support is very good.