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Organisation Executive view of project plans and progress
Within my organisation, we have up to 20+ projects in various stages of their lifecycle going at any one time. Each project has activities relevant to specific departments within the organisation an...
I think the closest you could get to meeting your requirements with native Planner functionality, although likely not ideal, would be to put all work in one Plan. Premium plans (Project for the web) now support managing 3,000 tasks and 2,000 dependencies.
- Create an "Organization Projects" Plan
- Project Managers Create Summary Tasks for each Project as well as a Bucket for each project
- Tasks are associated with Summary Tasks and Project Buckets; use labels to associate tasks to departments
- Department Managers can go into the Plan, view as Board and use combinations of group by buckets and filter by labels (or vice versa) to see work broken out by their department's contribution to each project
- Resources will see all tasks assignments in Tasks but will not be able to determine what tasks are associated with what projects unless the go into the Plan
Thank you very much for contributing.
We have access to the premium plans in Planner. Is your suggestion for the basic form of Planner or the premium version? You mentioned "native" above, but I'm not 100% sure what you meant by that.
The above solution would require the owner of the project to be assigned either a Planner Plan 1 or Planner and Project Plan 3. With that licensing you can create a premium plan that includes tasks and subtasks.