If Planner is to replace Project/Project for the Web, and we are now 8 years into development, many of these features mentioned by others should already be available. Creating feature disparity/licensing differences among 3 products designed for project management has made choosing which product to use almost impossible. We all need, and quickly, a modern (keep the attention of the newer generation who's going to be using the product), flexible (can be used for simple and complex projects without having an overly complicated entry point) project management too that is well integrated with the Microsoft suite (Outlook, SharePoint, PowerApps). I'll reiterate a few missing features that have caused our organization pain:

  -  The inability to @mention someone in Planner tasks.  @Mention should go to Teams or Outlook or both (configurable maybe?) to we meet the assignee in the communication tool that they use.

  -  Along with this, when Comments are added to a task by another assignee or the PM, that should generate some notification to the assignee(s) in their chosen platform.  Currently, comments go to a Team DL that is not always present in Outlook dending upon how a user has set it up.  And further, if an assignee has not yet commented themselves, they will not be included directly on new comments.
(These two points above make task management very difficult in Planner as people don't get updates/info in a timely manner)

  -  Integration with Roadmap (which could be improved to show impact of delays for instance) for quick executive/team visual reporting.

  -  Inability to embed a Planner project into SharePoint.  We want to use SharePoint as the central place to manage a project, such that any documents, lists, calendars, news, are all accessible from a visually pleasing, well organized, and central location.
(Please integrate SharePoint and Outlook calendars so team calendars can be accessible in Outlook and SharePoint.  Teams/SharePoint integration is not sufficient for the above comment...it is better to work in SharePoint)

  -  Integration with OneNote, such that a task can be easily created from a tag in OneNote.  This is where many organizations keep project notes and updates, so why not?

  -  Establishing dependencies/predecessors in tasks

  -  Gant view, with option to specify at which level, or solid integration and improvements to do this in Roadmap

  -  Ability to mark milestone tasks and tie visualization to Roadmap

  -  %Complete is needed, not just perpetually "in progress"

  -  For the PM, task updates should be more easily visible in Planner.  Recent changes should not be simply highlighted in a thin green line, but filterable...show me all changes in the past X days, for instance.

  -  Ability to add photos, screen clips to tasks without having to save as an attachment.

Why the connection to Project is not possible from Roadmaps? Connection to Dataverse is ok, connection to Project Roadmap says "create first party connection failed". Solution anyone? 🙂 Thanks

When a project has many tasks, it would be very useful and convenient if one could select the desired hierarchy level to display, e.g., Show Outline Level 1 = main level tasks, and so on.

This same functionality has long been available in the MS Project and Project Online / Project Web App.

E.g.
Show Outline Level 1
Show Outline Level 2
Show Outline Level 3 etc
Show All Levels

... 

I hope the MS Planner development team considers the following features, which would greatly enhance user experience:

• Integration of all To-Do features into Planner Basic: This should include the ability to set specific notification times (hour/minute), add alarms to the app, automatically recognize due dates and times, and allow tagging of assignees and locations when drafting task descriptions.
• Planner as an alarm clock: Enable Planner to function as an alarm clock, allowing users to set task reminders or alarms at specific times.
• Access to all plan activities: Provide the ability to view all plans you have access to, even if you’re not specifically assigned to tasks.
• Tagging in comments: Allow users to tag specific assignees in task comments for streamlined collaboration. Unlimited checklist tasks and flexible checklist management: Remove the current 20-task limit for checklists. Include features such as grouping checklist tasks (similar to Google Keep) and the ability to convert copied text rows into multiple checklist lines.
• Board view of all plans: Introduce a unified board view that shows all plans you are involved in, not just one plan at a time.
• Calendar integration: Create a more seamless way to sync Planner with calendars, perhaps by offering an option to integrate all plans into the calendar automatically, instead of manually adding each one.
• Custom time-range filter options: Enable customizable time-range filters to allow more control over task and plan views.
• Archiving plans: Add an option to archive completed or inactive plans for better organization, instead of having to delete them.
• Increased task flexibility (similar to Google Keep): Introduce features such as the ability to add photos to tasks, pin tasks, and color-code specific tasks or buckets for better organization and usabili. 
• Download task/plan into word document: This option too would be important when it comes to writing narrative progress reports
• Print both individual task and the plan: another feature that could be helpful to use planner more efficiently.

While all of these "when will we get X feature" comments are great, what I'm wondering is: None of these are new requests. People have been asking for years. They feel unheard.

I had very high hopes for the relaunch of Planner, but feel like there was a big opportunity missed. It feels like lipstick on a pig. And a money grab with most of the focus being on Planner "Premium". I'm imagining much of this presentation will feel that way too.

But it's not too late. This thing can be great. And I would gladly be willing to blaze that trail with you all.

So all of this for my question: Will we see meaningful change in the base level of Planner in the next 6 months? No, not on the integration with Pftw. Actual features people have been asking for. Something that prevents people from going to something like Asana or Monday and working around the fact that those tools aren't integrated as well, but are far better project management tools.

Gold star if you give a real, non-political kind of answer. We all know MS has the ability to do this. But should we get our hopes up?