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Planner Limitations
SanthoshB1 These numbers are way out of date. Please ignore.
If Microsoft would take a look at Trello, it wouldn't produce garbage like Planner.
The integration into O365 is great but what it helps with all those limitations. Why can't I have multiple checklists with more than 20 items? It's not enough for us. What about Trello style notifications?
In my company we use Trello. We are a small company, not a problem to register and setup for each user. As we are an IT system integrator, we wanted to bring Planner to a customer with close to 400 Users. They are in Oil- and Gas Industry. We setup some sample projects / workflows but no chance. People don't get notifications, 20 items and only one checklist is not enough for them.
Long story short, we are rolling out Trello.
It's sad to see how Microsoft always brings out pre-Alpha releases and simply don't continue development unless for totally unimportant features.
It is clear to me, they don't use Planner. Otherwise they would have kicked it into the garbage can and purchased Trello.
The Limit about 250 tasks assigned per Person was removed: https://planner.uservoice.com/forums/330525-microsoft-planner-feedback-forum/suggestions/16700584-remove-250-task-limit-per-person-per-plan
wroot While having rolled out Trello for a particular customer (we are a System Integrator), I nevertheless keep looking at other solutions obviously. We have other customer's which are on Planner and fighting with all the limitations and of course I have hope, that Microsoft can sort it out.
Planner has the benefit of being a part of O365, hence much easier to roll out than a third party app.
Hope that makes sense.
Looking forward to see official and professional up-to-date documentation/report with all limitations that Planner have. Documentation is a crucial part for Project Managers/Architects to check before making long term choices.
Like for e.g. SharePoint has https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/software-boundaries-and-limits-0
- Bernd, Thomas didn't reply directly to you. 250 tasks limit was mentioned in the first message by this post author. So it is important for some people and Thomas informed them about such limit lifting. And this is a good start on working on these limitations. Also, i thought you already rolled out Trello, so why do you even care replying here? 😄
Thanks but not sure what that helps. If I have 250+ Tasks pending, I need to rethink my workflows and get some help (or a new job).
What I was referring to is simply checklists which can hold more than 20 task items. And also being able to have multiple checklists in the same card. Sometimes a work process has different teams involved so you need to have a checklist for Team A to process tasks 1-30 and then you have follow up Tasks for Team B with another 40 tasks in the checklist.
That being said it still leaves the issue with the notifications. Trello can show me a notification for any action on a card I follow. That's a must if you want to control smooth workflows.
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