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New Feature: Priority field for Planner tasks is now available
SanthoshB1 , that's an interesting choice of options. Most organisations rank priority based on two scales, importance and urgency. The two are completely separate (see Eisenhower's Principle). Some tasks are urgent (need doing right now) but not very important (they don't have a big impact), while others are really important (they might change the whole organisation) but take time so are not urgent. Having a scale that combines the two is problematic.
Is there a way to customise the options for an organisation, or to change the options to something that is more in-keeping with standard management practice?
The ideal options are:
1. Important and urgent
2. Important but not urgent
3. Not important but urgent
4. Not important and not urgent
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_91.htm
Ross Roberts - I agree with this prioritisation and use it myself, alas Microsoft didn't for planner. You could of course just simply map Microsoft's 4 priorities to yours.
Urgent- Important and urgent
Important - Important but not urgent
Medium - Not important but urgent
Low - Not important and not urgent
Or of course you could use the labels and your own classification because you can group by labels.