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Microsoft Planner Description

Microsoft Planner makes it easy to organize teamwork. Get more done by taking the chaos out of teamwork. Planner makes it easy to organize your team, assign tasks and create new plans. It also allows you and your team members to share files, chat about what's happening, and receive updates on progress. With just one click, you can launch Planner from the Office 365 app Launcher. In just a few clicks, you can create a plan, create a team, assign tasks and update status. Each plan has its own board where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks according to their status or who they are assigned to. Drag and drop tasks from one column to update their status or change their assignments. The My Tasks view displays a complete list of all your tasks, along with their status, across all your plans. Team members can see who is working on which task when they are working together on a plan. Planner is designed for Office 365. It allows you to attach files to tasks, work with others on those files, and even have discussions around tasks.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$5 per month
Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

Reviews - 26 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Microsoft
Year Founded:
1975
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software

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Microsoft Planner

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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
Windows
Mac
iPhone
iPad
Android
Type of Training
Documentation
Customer Support
Online

Microsoft Planner Features and Options

Collaboration Software

Brainstorming
Calendar Management
Chat / Messaging
Contact Management
Content Management
Document Management
Project Management
Real Time Editing
Task Management
Version Control
Video Conferencing

Project Management Software

Agile Methodologies
Budget Management
Client Portal
Collaboration Tools
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
Customizable Templates
Gantt Charts
Idea Management
Kanban Board
Milestone Tracking
Portfolio Management
Resource Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Traditional Methodologies

IT Project Management Software

Bug Tracking
Issue Management
Milestone Tracking
Percent-Complete Tracking
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Product Roadmapping
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Status Tracking
Supports Agile
Supports Scrum
Task Management
Testing / QA Management
Time & Expense Tracking

Task Management Software

Collaboration
Create Subtasks
Gamification
Gantt Charts
Mobile Access
Percent-Complete Tracking
Progress Tracking
Recurring Tasks
Reporting/Analytics
Spreadsheet View
Task Board View
Task Planning
Task Scheduling
Task Tracking
Time Tracking
To-Do List View

Agile Project Management Tools

Backlog Management
Feedback Management
Gantt/Timeline View
Kanban Board
Prioritization
Request Management
Resource Management
Retrospectives Management
Status Tracking
Supports Scrum
Team Management
Template Management
Workflow Management
  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Administrator
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Director of procurement.
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Finance Director
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Bryan B.
    Job Title: Database Administrator
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Austin L.
    Job Title: Operations Lead
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Steven K.
    Job Title: Serve Pastor
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Project Officer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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 tasks

    Positive: 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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Financial Controller
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Human resources Officer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 5,000 - 9,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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 smartphones

    Negative: Needs default templates
    Needs advanced features like search, filter or tagging in cards

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: IT Specialist
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Developer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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 app

    Negative: It should be better integrated with Microsoft Teams for more efficient use.
    No desktop version - no offline usage.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Graphic Designer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Graphic Designer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    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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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Accountant
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Terrific experience with task management

    Date: Jul 21 2020

    Summary: Nice customer support.

    Effective with task planning and so user friendly.

    Great with time tracking and project support

    Positive: Terrific experience with task planning.
    It's very easy to use and intuitive user interface.
    Reliable with time tracking and great customer service.

    Negative: Great customer service and reliable with task planning.

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