MicrosoftI can agree with Ivan54 here. I don't want to say, I am disappointed, maybe just confused. So here is my take:
- Licensing Roadmaps via Project, is a bummer imo. We have expected Roadmaps becoming a separate tile amongst other O365 apps, licensed completly separately.
- From what I remember, Roadmaps were supposed to work also with the Planner. So why is the Project license required? Or did the scope of the project changed and Planner integration is not planned anymore?
- There is recently no ability to have a standalone row, which is not connected to either the Project, or the Azure Boards.
Now to Roadmaps itself:
- The work with the app is kind of cumbersome. If you want to add a project with its subtasks, you have to add each subtask manually, one by one.
- If your Project multiple projects carry something like "Phase one - planning", you can't distinguish, whish is which.
- You can't see a list of tasks / subtasks, from the connected Project. You have to guess, what is in there and start to type some letters, in order to see, if any such task/subtask exists.
- You can't recolor tasks. The coloring is based upon the Roadmap status only.
You can consider some of above points as a mayor usability issue imo. As for us, that app is so basic, that we are not sure yet, if it is worth the hassle. Looking forward to what the future brings here though ....
Cheers,
/Petr
