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Microsoft Planner offers a collaboration, project management, and task planning solution for teams. Users can create plans, add tasks to each plan, assign team members to tasks, and track individual and team progress for every plan. The drag-and-drop interface allows users to smoothly categorize tasks, update statuses, and assign tasks.
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Siokas G.
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Research, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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It is a practical tool for teams that base their work on Microsoft tools. It is an easy-to-use tool and practical. Without wasting time, a team member can start using it.
This tool helps you breakdown the tasks easily and organize them in a practical way. Additionally, team members can comment and interact within each tasks. This way all the necessery information for one task is kept organized in one place.
The tasks can not be automatically re-arranged according to the labels. Additionally, It is not friendly to the integration of different programs and tools apart from the products of Microsoft.
Arno W.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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MS Planner is a daily used kanban planner for us to track progress and keeps our employees informed.
MS Planner is fully integrated into the Office365 suite. Next to this, adding items is very fast and easy to do because of the low amount of required fields.
MS Planner sometimes has a disturbance so that changes are not immediately visible. The page needs to be reloaded to add changes or see changes.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Hospital & Health Care, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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Basic - to the point of not using it after a few initial attempts. The limitations made its use pointless. I recommend Trello over Planner to colleagues.
MS Planner is a bare bones planner tool. It does the basics of creating tasks and allocating them with, or without schedules. It triggers reminder emails and has basic dashboard views for users to see where their efforts need to be directed.
When using this product with an O365 licence it requires the plan to be associated with a Team (group). I don't understand why it simply can't be associated to my account. Linking it to a group enables the group members to see and edit what is in the plan. There's no security that will allow me to enable plan access to specific team members - so it can't serve a subgroup of the Team. You also cannot have a plan for Private Teams Channels - who are, again, a subgroup of the Team. So you can't build the plan privately or share it privately. This is a major shortcoming.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It is an easy-to-use tool, but with few features that will allow you to work collaboratively.
Its highly controlled integration with the other Microsoft 365 product modules. It is very easy to learn, with the gantt view which is customizable and filterable. The management of notifications is intelligent, they are sent grouped, not one by one. Integration with email and other tools through Power Automate.
Few features on content management: No text formatting, impossible to identify collaborators in the comment, no drag and drop for files, no preview for images.
Oscar G.
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Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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It has a very intuitive interface to create Gantt diagrams and define a collaborative environment to assign tasks to the team and track work load in real time. Completely integrated with MS Teams. I specially like the possibility to highlight the priority tasks.
Notifications could be improved with the possibility to mention team members on the comment or messages when tasks are assigned. It does not have outstanding features you cannot get in other project management tools, many of them for free.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Planner offer?
Microsoft Planner has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $5.00
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Planner?
Microsoft Planner has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Q. What languages does Microsoft Planner support?
Microsoft Planner supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Microsoft Planner support mobile devices?
Microsoft Planner supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone
Q. Does Microsoft Planner offer an API?
No, Microsoft Planner does not have an API available.
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Planner integrate with?
Microsoft Planner integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Planner offer?
Microsoft Planner offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum