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Planner Web Part - update
We have an update!!!
I don't mind the fact that they didn't show up yet - I do mind the fact that our customers can also see the timings on the O365 roadmap site and plan accordingly. Logically, they turn to me/us/their consultants to check the latest status.
A suggestion towards communicated timings:
- Communicate realistic timings
- Split up timings in Targeted Release and Public
- Even hide Targeted Release release dates for the public and make it available for, let's say, partners
- Post updates regarding topics such as "We have found additional dependencies which causes the delivery of this web part to be a couple of weeks later. The great news is that additional features will be covered which leads towards a better adoption rate" or something like that :-)
Not sure I agree with:
Pieter Op De Beéck wrote:
...Even hide Targeted Release release dates for the public and make it available for, let's say, partners
There's a world of organizations who won't use partners and still deserve to plan. I think the key is your last statement:
Pieter Op De Beéck wrote:- Post updates regarding topics such as "We have found additional dependencies which causes the delivery of this web part to be a couple of weeks later. The great news is that additional features will be covered which leads towards a better adoption rate" or something like that :-)
Just update us... ideally before the date passes. That's all we're looking for.
We have an update!!!
;-) Just to be clear: I agree with you and I don't work for Microsoft so what you have to do here is just post the message as you have done here and also ping Microsoft people that are in charge of Roadmap and specifically of SPO new stuff coming to Office 365 Brian Levenson Mark-Kashman danholme Chris McNulty
- Chris McNulty
Microsoft
Thanks for the feedback - we know that *most* of our customers could use more precise guidance on release schedules, and are working to figure out better ways to communicate change to you.
The roadmap is intended to be a guide, and not a precise schedule about what drops when; that is more properly the role of the Message Center. To be fair, its not that we wont disclose precise dates weeks or months in advance - its that we don't know the dates that far in advance - and when innovations are ready to release, we tend not to "sit" on them.
