What is 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鈥檙e working on, and get updates on progress.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Planner?
Pros
- Reliable
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Task Assignment
Task Status
Task Categorization
List Tasks
Due Dates
Task Prioritization
Drag and Drop Prioritization
Dependencies
Notifications
Add Notes
Shared Task List
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Breadth of Features
Microsoft Planner Reviews
Aathithya .
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2021
Your team鈥檚 work with intuitive & collaborative.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
Boards Content-rich cards Assignees, due dates, and comments Event scheduling Project planning File management Performance reports Labels Task tracking Office 365 integration
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It鈥檚 easy to get started with the tool. The user interface is simple and the experience in using the product is intuitive. I didn鈥檛 even have to go through their docs to understand how their product works. You can quickly view all the tasks everyone is working across Boards (or Plans, as Microsoft calls them). This is particularly helpful to see if your teammate is overloaded with work. You can view tasks and set their due dates using the in-built calendar feature. It鈥檚 known as the 鈥淪chedule鈥� view.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As a project management and collaboration tool, it鈥檚 surprising to see that there is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation. You鈥檒l receive too many emails if your team begins to actively use the software. Lack of detailed reports such as burndown chart, burn up, and cumulative flow diagrams.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Since it is part of the Office 365 suite of products, you鈥檒l end up paying for plenty of tools you鈥檒l not be using.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Denver M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2021
Software for managing a big construction project.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
Microsoft Project in engineering, especially in construction management, is not only for managing the time and the project itself. It also best for a big construction firm to have a daily basis of their progress. To know the efficiency of individual contractors inside the project if you're the project manager. The software may help you understand each group of workers' behavior based on their project and based on your personal judgment on their work.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Microsoft support itself is a great factor in buying or subscribing to their yearly subscription. Their cloud-based software which you can easily collaborate with other departments or other contractor is a great advantage to the company. Weekly progress based on the software can produce an assumption that will drive you to a conclusion on how skilled is your workers that have been assigned to a particular area.
What do you dislike most about this product?
To be honest, I've nothing at all bad to state about this software. Being in the enterprise, our only concern will be the pace of examining and updating the program with characteristics that improve the general performance.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Check the Microsoft project website to have an overview of the product and check what plan is best fit for your own purpose of use.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Kurt F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2021
Great for organizing simple projects on their own
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
The integration into the rest of the Microsoft 365 suite.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to customize and simplify a project for someone else to view.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I wish I could group plans together more.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Don't get to complicated with the plans. It's made for simple organization and does a great job of that. It's not for project management.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
