Microsoft’s work management apps, Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project, help your hybrid team coordinate and manage tasks and projects. Both share a similar look and feel by design to make it easy...
Updated Nov 11, 2024
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Brian_Smith Re: Pricing… I’d lean heavy towards including the online version of Project with the SharePoint/Teams experience. Having the one-off conversations within the kludgy hierarchy that is corporate America is an insane effort because most of the people you need approval from spend weeks asking you, “Why can’t you just use Excel.” Then, when you finally battle through that, they’ll approve a minuscule number of licenses.
Then there’s the battle with the IT department. If they use Jira, they’ll push back and say everyone should use that, even though that tool has massive limitations, especially with reporting and it’s lack of compatibility with the overall Teams experience.
Because of that, Microsoft chases pennies on the dollar with corporations they already have multi-million dollar contracts with, and the net result is that Project never becomes a ubiquitous shared tool. That will eventually lead to its minimized usage and likely eventual demise. In a collaborative space like Teams, Project becomes useless if a non-technical user can never work with the tool.
Like with anything new, don’t chase the dollars too fast. Rather, get people using it.