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Manage your team’s workloads with the new People view!

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Microsoft Project Team
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Oct 12, 2022

The new People view is now available for all Project users with a Project Plan 1 license and above!

 

 

 

Whether you are a people manager, project manager, or another kind of manager, use this view in your projects to:

  • Easily see each team member’s workload within your project     
  • Determine if the workload of each team member is over or under relative to one another
  • Easily drag and drop tasks to reassign and update your team's tasks to balance out the work

To give this view a try, simply open a project and navigate to the new "People" tab in one of your projects.

 

Within People view, you can configure the new "View options" dialog on the header. For example, you can choose to show effort completed, remaining, and late in hours on the people cards, or choose to disable "Compact mode" to show all information on task cards just like in the Board view.

 

You can also choose to subgroup the tasks in this view by Bucket (default), Progress, Finish Date, Labels, and Priority to view the information organized in the way that is most relevant to you. Note: If you're using the Bucket subgrouping, don't forget to give your buckets some colors in the Board view to make it look as colorful as the images above!

 

For more information, please review the People view support article.

 

Updated Oct 12, 2022
Version 2.0

7 Comments

  • brisko's avatar
    brisko
    Copper Contributor

    In addition to comments from sthoms2000 and mdecroos we need this feature to be connected to Azure DevOps/Azure Boards so that agile Product Owners do not need to track their tasks in two places. 
    Any engagement inside ADO should be available in the People's view.

  • mdecroos's avatar
    mdecroos
    Copper Contributor

    I agree with  sthoms2000 :  "this view is limiting"

    I would even say "rather useless" ...Teams have most of the time responsibilities/tasks in multiple projects so the views should have somewhere a filter option "this project"/" selected projects" / "roadmap" / "all projects".

  • sthoms2000's avatar
    sthoms2000
    Brass Contributor

    Any plan to have this feature run across multiple project plans?  This way you can get an idea of who's really overloaded across your Resourcing bench.  All of our staff are juggling multiple projects, so this view is limiting.

  • fitcja's avatar
    fitcja
    Copper Contributor

    Question: How do I get that kind of coloring within the columns? Is that feature/functionality available now?

  • cassie_civ's avatar
    cassie_civ
    Copper Contributor

    Sorry - need more information on this one - I cannot see the people tab...Is this Project Web app or Project Online?

     

  • Deepthi1's avatar
    Deepthi1
    Brass Contributor

    Happy to see new features combining the planner capabilities and project capabilities together here.  Hope it will be fill the gap of managing the Agile project / hybrid projects as well . Really liked the condition color formatting and dependency view . Thanks for sharing the details !