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- What's the roadmap for Resource Management for Project For Web/Planner Premium? I find it difficult to workload level across projects and understand how busy folks are going to be based on estimated budget hours. Also, need have better reporting on Actual burn rates vs original Forecasts
- Hi Stephen, you may already be familiar with the universal resource sheduling capabilities detailed at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/project-for-the-web/overview-universal-resource-scheduling but if there is more you need be sure to give us feedback - https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/40792262-301c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472
- Are there any changes made in the part that comes into the planner from Project Web? Today, it is hard to avoid failure when the duration of the task is, for example, 2 weeks but the task itself will only take a few hours. It will be possible to 'lock' the duration and effort time to provide extra security to prevent damaging the whole project and timeline.
- We will probably need a little more detail here Anna. Project for the web does support different task types (at the Project level) of fixed effort, fixed duration (default) and fixed units, using the scheduling modes capability - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/project-for-the-web/scheduling-modes. No direct control in new Planner, but the plan viewed in new Planner will adhere to the chosen mode for the plan, and assigned tasks of any type will also be available in new Planner.
- My other question just got lost, but my Tasks in New Planner in Teams only allows the update of Progress on a Task from Project for the web that has effort. To update Effort, you have to click on the Project for the web Project link to update Effort and Work Remaining in Project for the web? Is this intended behavior?
- That is the current intended behavior Alicia. If you open up the plan from My Plans you would be able to add the effort and remaining effort columsn to make such an update, but initially the columns available in My Tasks for premium plans are similar to those of basic plans.
- Will the features of the MS Project Online (not project for the web) be available? Are there features part of project online that won't be available? Specifically the project center views to see the full portfolio and we're also interested in program management within the portfolio as well.
- The portfolio features coming later in the year may address some of your questions Donni, but don't expect a 1 to 1 match with what you see today in Project Online today. The general same capabilities will be delivered, but possibly in a different way - and some of the lesser used features may not have an equivalent. But then as Holly mentioned, Copilot is uniquely placed to help with some of those scenarios too.
- I have questions related to personal plans in New planner. Hope you can throw some light in to these questions? 1. Does personal plan is enabled by default in the new planner? 2. Where is the data stored related to personal planner (in Azure? similar to planner in teams) 3. when is the personal plan gets deleted? (e.g when user leaves the organization or the creator of the plan deletes the plan)? 4. is it possible to share the personal plan to multiple users, if so how does the deletion process kicks off? 5. Does the personal planner supports ediscovery? 6. Is it possible to switch of the personal planner? Thank you!
- Hi Sathyanarayanan 1) yes 2) if you created a list in our To Do apps, technically the storage will be To Do's storage (Exchange), if you created the plan in new Planner, storage is the same as all other Planner plans 3) user deletes, user leaves org 4) if you share a personal plan in new Planner (created in Planner) it becomes an M365 group-based plan. 5) not at this time but this is on our radar, keep an eye on our Planner blogs for new info 6) can you clarify what you mean? thanks for the questions!
Luke-PlannerPM How does your #4 answer work if Admins have restricted who can create Groups? We have purposely limited who can create Groups to prevent users from creating Redundant / Duplicate Teams when originally rolled out Teams. As described in the MS Article here
Does the backend service workflow do this as a privileged task or does it assume the user Sharing the Personal Plan has the permission to create M365 groups? or does it simply ignore the restriction?There has been a longstanding confusion on my part around the Personal Plans based on Rosters and users only being able to create them via Graph. It seems that earlier guidance was wrong. We have people creating Project Plans that are not mapped to groups and they no longer work here. Management of orphaned plans is becoming overwhelming. This getting complicated for me to follow. I believe that the terms "Project Plans" versus "Planner Plans" is part of the issue, especially when many articles talk about merging features between them.
- Love loops, and its good news to know the new planner will be integrating Loops.
- Can there be more tables for Plan 1 and Plan 3 PfW users, as if the users do not want the Plan 5 features there doesn't seem many, especially if you compare to all the tables you want with Power Apps. Thanks.
- Hello - if not in today's live session, will all comments have an answer to them at some point?
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
NickyDA Hi, yes, our team aims to respond to the questions in this AMA, and if not today, then during the following week.
- Planner felt very agile/kanban. Will the new merged Planner/Project retain support for traditional waterfall project management?
- Check out the updated Microsoft Planner adoption hub: https://aka.ms/NewPlanner/adoption. Lots of helpful materials to best use, adopt, and deploy the new Planner.
