Planner

Planner is a visual tool that helps you to organize your team tasks. It helps you stay on track, thereby making it easier to manage the ongoing project.

Planner is not a comprehensive project-management solution like Microsoft Project, but it provides lightweight task-management capabilities, such as the following:

  • Creating tasks (or cards) and boards
  • Assigning tasks to team members
  • Specifying due dates
  • Sharing files
  • Having conversations

Planner also lets you visualize your tasks by allowing you to sort your project tasks by team member, task status, or task bucket, all from the same screen. It does this by laying all your task items on a planner board.

The board is like a dashboard that displays all of the tasks in a given plan. ...

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