What is Microsoft Planner?
Enhance team collaboration with Microsoft Planner, turning chaotic teamwork into streamlined efficiency! This innovative tool facilitates the planning process for teams, enabling them to assign and organize tasks, share essential documents, discuss ongoing projects, and track updates on progress. Accessing Planner is a breeze via the Office 365 app launcher, requiring just a single click. From that point, you can quickly create a new plan, build a team, assign tasks, and change statuses in just a few simple steps. Each plan comes with its own customized board, allowing you to categorize tasks effectively. Tasks can be organized either by their status or by the team member responsible for them. Modifying task statuses or reassigning them is effortless, thanks to the drag-and-drop functionality between columns. The My Tasks feature provides a comprehensive view of all your responsibilities and their statuses across various plans you are part of. In collaborative efforts, every team member can easily see who is in charge of specific tasks, ensuring transparency and accountability. Designed specifically for Office 365, Planner makes it easy to attach important files to tasks, collaborate on those documents, and engage in discussions related to individual assignments, ultimately nurturing a connected and productive team atmosphere. Furthermore, its user-friendly interface motivates all users to remain actively involved and informed as projects advance, making teamwork even more effective.
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Good for project forecasting and budgeting
Date: Oct 01 2023SummaryIt's a valuable tool for project budgeting.
Efficient with time tracking on tasks done.
Elegant and convenient for workflow automation.PositiveIt's just an incredible software with project budgeting and forecasting.
Incredible for daily to do lists.NegativeIt'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 2022SummarySuper 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.PositiveVery impressive software with instant messaging.
Super convenient with team collaboration.
Great with project planning and scheduling.
Excellent with task scheduling.NegativeIt's a great software with team collaboration and ease of use.
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High Quality Project Management
Date: Mar 11 2022SummaryOverall I’d recommend Microsoft Planner to anyone already using the Microsoft 365 suite or anyone considering it.
PositiveThis software is great for planning tasks, collaborating with teammates, and supports high quality integrations.
NegativeThere really aren’t any cons of Microsoft Planner that I’ve encountered.
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Planner is SUPER Helpful!
Date: Mar 29 2021SummaryOverall, 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!
PositiveMicrosoft 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!
NegativeI 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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Lightweight, straight forward features with documents management.
Date: Feb 17 2021SummaryMobile friendly app and reliable to track the tasks.
Chats make team collaboration simple.
Efficiency with budgeting for project.PositiveFaster to share documents with teams.
Reliable to track and organise work and tasks.
Their customer support is very responsive.NegativeMost effective with task management and user friendly customer support.
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Versatile and efficient with project management
Date: Feb 18 2021SummaryGreat tool and more collaborative for teams to communicate.
Supportive customer support.
Helps a lot with to do list and organising daily tasksPositiveGreat product from Microsoft with project management.
Faster to set time taken on tasks.
Great and customizable dashboard.NegativeFaster to track time on task and most affordable to use.
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MS Planner is another great integrated tool for the MS/Office 365 Suite
Date: Jul 17 2021SummaryPlanner 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!
PositiveReally 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.
NegativeStandalone competitor tools like Monday, Asana, and Airtable have a lot more functionality, features, and direct support.
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Super convenient with task prioritization and affordable.
Date: Feb 17 2021SummaryAffordable and most robust with task prioritization.
Reliable to track time.
Convenient with project scheduling.PositiveCost effective.
Easy to share documents with team members.
Excellent with assignment of tasks.
Reliable with project scheduling.NegativeGreat and most convenient with task management and cost effective.
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Flexibility and reliability with workflow management
Date: Feb 15 2021SummaryEfficiency to report on projects.
Faster to share documents with teams.
Instant messaging is guaranteed with team communication.PositiveVery flexible with time tracking.
Easy to report on projects.
Most convenient with task prioritization.NegativeMost convenient with time tracking and workflow management.
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Fully indebted to it with file sharing collaboration
Date: Aug 01 2021SummaryExtremely effective with task assignment.
Intuitive user interface.
Reliable with expense management.
Convenient with workflow automation.PositiveVery excellent and solid for file sharing collaboration.
Extremely effective with project management.
Cloud based access of project documents.
Reliable with expense management.NegativeIt's an excellent app with task management and no challenges.
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A very good project management tool
Date: Aug 01 2020SummaryMS 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.
Positive- 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.Negative- I think an option to clone previous plans and structures in order to modify it and build over it can really save my time.
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Comprehensive features with project management
Date: Jul 06 2020SummarySimplicity with use and reliable with task planning.
Easy to set due dates for projects.
It's more affordable software.PositiveReliable and more effective with task management.
User friendly support team.
Effective with setting due dates for projects.NegativeFor now I have no any complaint with the software for it's simple.
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A good project management app from Microsoft
Date: Aug 14 2020SummaryMicrosoft 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.
PositiveGood interface
Lightweight application
Integrates well with the Office 365 apps
Timeline view for better task management
Has a good application for smartphonesNegativeNeeds default templates
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Good for Team collaboration
Date: Jul 28 2020SummaryMicrosoft 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.
PositiveEasy 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 appNegativeIt should be better integrated with Microsoft Teams for more efficient use.
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Excellent for planning meeting with project management
Date: Jul 15 2020SummaryOverall experience with Microsoft planner is reliable with project planning.
It's cost effective and easy to install and deploy.
Great customer support.PositiveEasy to organise and schedule meeting.
Reliable with project planning and user friendly.
It's very affordable and easy to use.NegativeGreat software and reliable with scheduling projects.
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Competitive and awesome with task management
Date: Jul 21 2020SummarySecure and reliable with project tracking.
More effective with time tracking.
Great and more convenient with task management.PositiveSecure and more affordable with project planning.
Reliable with content editing and sharing.
Great with file sharing and very cost effective to use.NegativeReliable and more convenient with project management.
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Probably the best with time tracking.
Date: Jul 16 2020SummaryGreat experience and usability is so simple.
Nice and user friendly dashboard.
Reliable and more effective with task planning.
It's more affordable and robust softwarePositiveTime 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.NegativeIt's effective and more admirable with project management.
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Lightweight task organization tool
Date: Aug 27 2020SummaryMicrosoft Planner is a decent task planner tool with a great board view and is good enough for basic projects.
PositiveIf 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.
NegativeIt is not as feature rich as Trello or Asana which are both better alternatives if you have a larger project.
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Smart and more convenient with task management
Date: Jul 22 2020SummarySmart and more effective with task planning and project budgeting.
Easy to schedule the meeting.
More suitable with daily tasks.PositiveIt's have smart features with task planning.
More effective with scheduling the meeting.
Easy with time tracking and user friendly customer service.NegativeMore convenient with task planning and easy to use because it's awesome.
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Useful tool comes with Microsoft 365 bundle
Updated: Jul 18 2020SummaryMicrosoft 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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