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Microsoft Teams: Using Planner to stay organized
Matt,
Thanks for the blog post; some of this information was new to me (like the integration with Teams). We tried Planner and it failed bigly. The initial concept was very well received ("just like Trello!") and aimed to solve a very real problem ("we still use email for delegating and tracking assignments!"). However, once we got into daily usage, the many, MANY problems of Planner caused users to sour on the experience quickly. Notifications is the biggest problem, but there are lots of other glitches that also deep-sixed the roll-out attempt (like for example, it's impossible to copy/paste individual tasks). Nice try, Microsoft, but start preparing a graveplot for Planner next to Google Wave.
Thanks Austin, I appreciate the feedback. All great points and I don't disagree with you or the others in this thread. Please keep the conversation and discussion going on this topic.
Sure. At this point, we're hoping that the new To-do app (based on Wunderlist) can provide us with more usability than Planner did, but it hasn't been deployed to our instance yet. Perhaps we'll give Planner a second look after a few months (assuming that it improves) but it will be hard to overcome the initial, negative impression that it left on our team.
