NOW ON DEMAND | The new Microsoft Planner: What’s New and What’s Coming Next

Interesting AMA. Charlie Tran made a great impression!

My suggestion for the planner team would be to not forget that all the parts make the whole. I see everyone focusing on 'advanced' task functionalities while very basic things are still not working. That bothers me as a user, and this AMA did not give me the impression that the team senses the urgency for providing basic functionality.

• @mentions from task descriptions are missing, and commenting within a task is click-intensive. The way commenting on premium tasks is done currently is frankly absurd.
• The overview of premium plans in My Plans > My Teams does not work.
• Once you have a premium task assigned in your My Plans view, most fields are unavailable—let alone editable.
• Task attachments are a mess. Both how they function and where they are stored need further customization.
• Assigning tasks and the 'Assigned to Me' feature are buggy or do not work at all.
• no Integration with Outlook.

These basic things are simply not there. As such, excessively talking about Copilot and various licensing structures gives imo the wrong signal. Same as working on 'nice to have' functionality in whiteboard. Get the foundational work done first, Microsoft.

P.S. the AMA mentioned powerBI templates running on the on the daverse data of premium plans; could someone be so kind to share a link to these? Roberto_Bojorquez. Thanks in Advance!