Microsoft Planner and Project: a look at what’s to come

Really want to settle on using Planner long term (and about to commit to making it work as much as possible in the short term as already in use here, albeit not perfectly, as a means to improve general efficiencies/mindsets etc).

Key features from our side (many already mentioned here and elsewhere):

• Cross-plan visibility of single tasks (possibly single best feature of Asana for me)
• Cross-plan task management/search (e.g. staff total workloads/progress)
• Comment/note mentions
• Assigning checklist items (subtasks)
• Adding due dates to checklist items
• Separating task owners vs. task followers (so many scary emails flagging overdue tasks for followers)

At this point, although great to see any updates, lack of the above - or sense these will never arrive - makes me feel we will eventually have to go outside Office for the solution we need and build a bridge back into MS apps we're happy with (e.g. Teams).

Thanks.