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Dylan_Snodgrass
Updated Dec 27, 2024
PewPewProject
Aug 28, 2024Brass Contributor
When will we get more information on what will be included for Roadmap Feature ID 187140 (Portfolio capabilities in Planner)? It would be good to know what the current planned features are so that companies can know whether it's worth keeping interim solutions until the Release/Rollout or whether they should find an alternative portfolio management tool.
- CourtBodaSep 03, 2024Iron ContributorYes, agree, please let us know the plan for Portfolio capabilities!
- OwenJonesSep 16, 2024Iron Contributor
Absolutely. Right now Planner is very limited as an enterprise solution. Every plan/project is in its own silo and one can't manage resources, tasks or projects outside of a small team. The following features are critical before we can deploy across our organization:
- Resource management across multiple projects. As a minimum it should be possible to view the Assignments and Charts tabs across a whole group, not just a single plan. Similar for People and Goals tabs would also be useful.
- Task dependencies between different projects
- Task requests into a project, allowing outside the project team to make a request that the Project Manager needs to accept
- Allowing a task to be in more than one project (could be similar to the above)
Other items that would be helpful:
- "Sticky" views, with the current state of filters, group by, zoom, date range etc retained between sessions
- Bulk update of tasks
- Moving tasks between projects
- Keeping effort constant when duration of a task is changed
- Allowing top-level tasks to connect to Goals
- jeffreyroseberrySep 23, 2024Brass ContributorOther key missing elements: 1) The ability to customize/add columns (I like to create a "Milestone" columns and mark certain tasks accordingly); and 2) The ability to create a WBS - without having to do a workaround. Frankly, I'm amazed that these components are missing - at least from the version(s) that I am using.