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Integrate Planner Tasks to Sharepoint Tasks

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  • Steve Lowery commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Integration of planner tasks to sharepoint would solve one of the the biggest challenges we face. The ability to consolidate tasks from various planners into a Management view (a dashboard to slice, dice and view tasks by resource, project, team etc). Currently it is very difficult to manage multiple plans

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this will allow users to choose either the more detailed project plan view or the simpler bucket

  • Paul Tan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Planner tasks should be stored as Sharepoint tasks, in this way, the attachments can be stored in SharePoint tasks. Additionally, SharePoint already has the functions to restore deleted item, to maintain versions and to handle approval via workflows etc.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Link sharepoint task list with planner would be great addition to manage everyday work

  • Oscar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm a PMP and Agile certified Portfolio Manager and I've been trying to build a managing structure and methodology with Microsoft Office for some time. My goal? Cheapest portfolio and project management framework and methodology. Office already comes with a bunch of tools, I want to make sure I use them to their full potential.

    I've searched for ways to integrate hibrid projects into Office 365 but I've not found any out-of-the-box way to do it so here are my suggestions.

    Here is what I thought of by using Sharepoint and Planner only.
    Out-of-scope: MS Project, too expensive.

    - Epics/User Stories - They reflect SCOPE. They need to be managed by Product Owners/Scrum Masters and also Project Managers for reporting and scope tracking.

    - Activities and Tasks - They need to be managed by the Scrum Team and the Scrum Master to assure team velocity.

    1) Epics and User Stories (Product Backlog) could be tracked in Sharepoint (Project Site) as a custom list where the P.O can detail the User Story. These Stories can each be approved by appropriate stakeholders to assure the user story is ready to go and aligned with business need (PMI/Agile Requirement).

    2) Note that I wrote CUSTOM LIST, not TASK LIST, in item (1) above. As of now I don't see the product backlog list as a tasklist because we won't have target dates for many of the user stories until we come to their priority. I see (1) as a tool specific for SCOPE MANAGEMENT (PMBok 5.0 SCOPE MANAGEMENT PROCESS). I could associate it to the WBS Dictionary.

    3) This Product Backlog could sync with a Planner Column, preferably with a specific Planner Card to ease Scrum Team work. They don't need access to sharepoint, they only need access to Planner! I see this as a security requirement because often I've seen third party development teams working with companies and we don't want them having access to our Sharepoint. Having access to a specific Planner project, however, is okay.

    3.1) When updated in Planner/Sharepoint, the respective sharepoin task or planner cardis updated and vice versa.

    4) Planner could have the ability to link cards to a specific different card. Example. In a planning session it is expected to break Product Backlog items into tasks which may or may not fit into a Sprint. Problem with Trello, Asana and other tools is that you lose that link once you create a new card. As PMI wrote in process 5.0 SCOPE MANAGEMENT, we need a tracebaility of requirements to assure that we are delivering what is expected. This has been a major issue for me and many other project managers I've spoken to. Keeping an excel sheet for this is just not practical.

    Bonus features:
    - Cards could have complexity points to measure team speed.
    - Sum of dates of cards linked to an epic would lead to a estimated date for Epic/User Story completion on Sharepoint
    - Planner card linking could display Epic % completion

    This method aims at:
    - Keeping Product Owners and Project Managers at Sharepoint.
    - Allowing Project Managers to include sprints as tasks in a Task List while including other tasks that are not related to any agile methodology (Hibrid Project Management)
    - Scrum Masters could navigate between Sharepoint and Planner, but only when required to dwell into activity/task items of Planner.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    one task list to rule them all is what is very much needed. Finding all tasks in one place - from sharepoint lists, onenote, outlook etc. would save soooo much time.

  • DN commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There are so many ways to integrate email, task, note and meeting information in O365 and 2016 tools. Everyone of them, however, is glaringly missing a key capability. There is no clear solution, if any, as every method requires an extensive workaround, which destroys the benefits. It's like the strategy is "we'll give you three out of five and see if you can make do with that."

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Integrating the planner with sharepoint task list and gantt chart would prevent the requirement for finding management solution elsewhere. Until then its unusable, there are more integrated planning and online email solutions available.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Planner needs to be integrated to share point, makes no sense at all to have them a part.
    Is there a way to do it?

  • Jonas Sonberger commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Three things would make PLANNER the ultimate cooperation tool for our organization. One - easy integration to Sharepoint so that you could add new tasks to the Planner-board directly from your project site in Sharepoint. And vice-versa - add to Planner board and get it visible in Sharepoint task list.

    Two - ability to show tasks in a listview instead of boxes - more like Jira/trello works today.
    Three - ability to add features like "priority" to a planner card.

  • Andrea commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There needs to be a dashboard page that integrates all of the apps (SP, Planner, etc) and shows a general overview of each project. It's hard to convince people that it's efficient to use when they have to click into 3 or 4 different apps and piece a project status together.

  • Jon Fox commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This makes so much sense to be able to integrate SharePoint and Planner as tools and to aid migration of existing plans from SharePoint into Planner

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would like to have one single dashboard that has planner data (tasks) and sharepoint lists in it. PLease integrate this

  • Guilherme Mercante commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We use SharePoint as the main Operation Review tool, the idea of Microsoft Planner it's nice, but we really need to integrate it with SharePoint. We want to focus the Action List in the Planner but also using the SharePoint as the Agenda.

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