![]() ![]() Instead of continuing to waffle on, I’m going to paint it clear as day for you and show below a table comparing Lists to Planner. While Planner on the other hand, has given us confetti on completed tasks and a few other small things. Since then, Lists has continued to add functionality and be more and more visible to end users who might never have thought of using them. Until lists in SharePoint, like Pinocchio, became a real boy thanks to magic from Microsoft, and emerged as a standalone product – “Lists” – in mid-2020. Unfortunately, not a great amount changed since then, and so the lists functionality, while still useful and used a lot, became something for the hardcore SharePoint users. With every version of SharePoint Server, the lists functionality got a big bump in features – especially in SharePoint Server 2007. In fact, document libraries are technically lists, so therefore lists have actually been around in SharePoint since 2001. Similar to Planner, lists in SharePoint was introduced a lot earlier than people realise. Even posing a challenge for those of us who had moved on to Microsoft Teams, because we wanted to get back together with our ex. The difference is that Yammer finally came around and virtually re-invented itself, making up for lost time. Sure, the average user still thought the product was good, but those who scratched beyond the surface quickly realised the shortcomings. Development and creation of new features was minimal. The product integration was heralded as the next big thing, people like me jumped on the bandwagon full of hope for the future… which never came.īecause the product stagnated. But then, it started to become clear that this was becoming similar to when Microsoft made Yammer part of the Office 365 suite. But it was designed to be enough, that the average Microsoft 365 user (Office 365 back then) wouldn’t need to look for an external solution.įor a time, things were great. It was never intended to compete with Trello and its clones, never offer the same level of functionality. Microsoft unveiled Planner as an ad-hoc group-based task management tool for the new age. Agile was starting to emerge as a hero, and products such as Trello and Asana were starting to take the spotlight. The world was turning away from the “waterfall” view of managing projects. Microsoft Project was too expensive and difficult to use properly without training, Project Online was providing a cloud alternative but still provided the same challenges and lists in SharePoint had stagnated. We needed a new task management system back then. I’ve been working with Microsoft Planner for many years, since it was originally revealed to the MVP community as “Project Highlander” around 2016. ![]() In the short term Mindmanager is assigned to a narrow functional responsibility in our law firm.(UPDATED 4th Feb 2022 with additions to the comparison table, removal of the Power Apps line in the table, link to Gantt chart JSON sample for list view formatting, link to a follow-up post showing how to migrate from Planner to Lists) This all seems like a discussion about a future a way away. Tasks are quickly becoming the work unit of our law firm and the task structure in Planner provides a solid foundation for this work.Īs MindManager is already a Microsoft tilted platform, its seems that the experience of working with Cohuman could easily be adapted to Planner and Teams if Microsoft will play ball. Security infrastructure around Azure and O365 is also attractive. So tasks need to be managed at a whole of organisation level and work across multiple applications. I think we now have to start rethinking tasks form the perspective of running a hybrid workforce across an enterprise and not just for a person or within a small team. ![]() But I still believe that when you see this attached explainer video, you will agree that we should re-use the investment MindMnagaer did in this approach and product. I also know that we have already brought some stuff like the KANBAN view into MindManagerĪnd, and. Now I know that there is a lot more video's for you to see the huge benefit There is no reason why they should not introduce this again in the current cloud based functionality. MindManager had invested in a wonderful task tool already in 2011 called Cohuman. It is good to see that Task based approaches are coming into action -again.
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