

It all starts with a place for all your project discussions and tasks. Initialization stage with Microsoft Teams In this post, we’ll go over the five phases of project management and how you can implement Microsoft Teams, Planner, Calendar, and other Microsoft 365 apps in each of them.

You can see all your Planner tasks in a single location under “My Tasks,” which will make it a lot easier to identify what you should focus on for your day. Each Planner can display the tasks grouped in various ways, provide charts and a schedule to see how things are going quickly.

With all these descriptors, you can easily organize your tasks. These buckets are represented in columns and can be any field of your choice this is where Planner steps away from KanBan a bit, as these buckets would typically be the stages of a task such as “Not started,” “In Progress,” “Waiting on third party.” You can still do this, but there is a dedicated “Progress” field in tasks, as mentioned below. Microsoft provides several ways to capture information related to the tasks. This tool works well for lightweight projects or operations type of work. Visualize your work, control your work in progress, minimize time organizing a timeline for projects (such as if using MS Project) and simply do the work. The methodology behind this tool is Kanban. The tool is, by nature, collaborative and is meant to be used by a group of people, all working on a single project. It’s a task management tool (not project management) that organizes work for projects. Managing Project Tasks with Microsoft Planner With the combination of these tools, you can manage tasks personal to you and tasks for a project where you collaborate with others, all in one location. A project management tool focused on Office 365 users is Microsoft To Do and Planner. From the simple flagging of emails in Outlook to simple or customized SharePoint lists to Microsoft Project. Do you have Office 365, but are using another digital system to keep track of daily job duties or project activities? With your license, Microsoft delivers many different task and project management tools.
