Forum Discussion
Is Planner in Beta testing?
Microsoft has been making lots of changes to Planner over the last year or so (which leads me to believe that they are committing to it as an app) - including a full revamp to bring the online version more in line with the Teams app. They have also improved the integration with other applications such as Loop and SharePoint, with more still to come. It appears they are listening to community requests as well, such as restoring the option to add a background to Plans, making them more accessible overall.
The new Microsoft Planner: A unified experience bringing together to-dos, tasks, plans and projects | Microsoft Community Hub. My understanding of this is that Planner Premium is replacing MS Project so that all projects, plans and tasks are together in one place, with the core difference being that you have to have the premium licence to access Project features.
The main risk that I have found with Planner at the moment, is that at the moment, there is no way of recovering deleted tasks or plans. Having a recycle bin would vastly improve the trust that most organisations can put into an app such as this when relying on such an app to manage workloads and projects.
It is clear that Microsoft is focused on developing Planner vs. Project Online (sometimes referred to as Project Web App or PWA).
There is no date to limit the functionality of Project Online at this time, but we encourage customers to plan their transition [to Planner] as soon as possible. We know that many of you depend on Project Online. Therefore, any decision on the date to limit functionality will be carefully made taking into account customer feedback and usage data on Project for the web to help ensure your business continuity and success.
Going forward, all innovation will occur in Project for the web. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/project-for-the-web-and-project-online-6569170c-5c8e-474e-a7f0-642872f62f8a