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Copper Contributor

Apr 02, 2019

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Which application to use for project task management

Hi, We are trying to work out the best way forward to manage our project resources rather than buying project software. Basically I thought of planner but that doesn't interlink well with outlook de...

Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT
Apr 18, 2019
Hi Brenden Ward In this month's O365 Champion community call I addressed Task Management. Take a look at the presentation and the recorded content over here: https://aka.ms/O365ChampionResources It's the April content.

Overall it's about making the switch. You can view Planner tasks with due dates in Outlook Calendar for scheduling and load balancing but it does not create Outlook tasks. The idea here is to move away from Outlook tasks for shared work and only use those, along with To-Do for individual tasks. I discuss that before my demo in the call. I hope this helps.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Apr 19, 2019

Brenden WardIt is really going to depend on the type of projects you do and how much functionality to you want. Some things to consider:

Do you need cost tracking info?

Time off info?

Schedule integration - if one project slips do others get affected and updated automatically

Number of projects.

need for rolled up management views

need for scheduling shift workers

Integration with other apps- onboarding, time-keeping, payroll etc

The answers to these and many other question will help you pick the right app(s). and you may want to use several instead of getting one, super-duper app that does everything.