Microsoft Planner

Status Reports for Microsoft Planner

A weekly Microsoft Planner status report template: what to include, how often, and how to keep it consistent across plans.

Capacity Planning for Microsoft Planner

A worked example: planning weekly capacity across eight people and three Microsoft Planner plans, eight weeks at a time.

Microsoft Planner RAID Log: Risks & Issues

How to run a risk, issue, action and decision log against your Microsoft Planner plans, with owners, severity and due dates.

Executive Reporting for Microsoft Planner

A five-plan portfolio rollup for executives: sources, risks needing a decision, and what Planner's Charts view can't show.

Financial Management for Microsoft Planner

Where budget, cost and benefit data for Microsoft Planner actually comes from, and what still has to be entered by hand.

Resource Management for Microsoft Planner

How to see workload and capacity across every Microsoft Planner plan you run, not just one plan's Assignments view.

Microsoft Planner Alternatives

Asana, monday.com, Smartsheet, Wrike, ClickUp and Jira compared as Planner alternatives, and when adding a portfolio layer beats switching.

Capacity Planning Across Planner Plans

Four ways to see capacity across several Planner plans, what each costs in effort, and the three questions that decide which to use.

Resource Management for Microsoft Planner

Planner shows who is assigned, not who has time. What the Premium workload view covers, where it stops, and what real capacity planning needs.

Microsoft Project Portfolio Management in 2026

What Planner Premium inherited from Project Online, what has no successor at all, and the three ways organizations are closing the difference.

Microsoft PPM in 2026: The Four Options

Project Online retires this month. The four routes to Microsoft PPM in 2026, what each costs you in ownership, and where Copilot actually reaches.

How No/Low Code in Project for the Web Cuts Costs

No-code and low-code with Project for the web automate project management tasks without heavy up-front spend. What can be built with it, and how ROI improves.

How to Build PPM with Project for the Web

Doable steps for building a project portfolio management environment in Project for the web, including the customization an out-of-box deployment leaves out.

How to Create a Gantt Chart in MS Planner

Creating a Gantt chart from an MS Planner project timeline in three steps, including Planner's reporting limits and how connecting it to PPM Express works.

Portfolio Management for Microsoft Planner

Planner runs the work beautifully and was never built to run a portfolio. What each edition actually holds, the five gaps, and four ways to close them.

Microsoft Planner vs Project in 2026

Planner or Microsoft Project in 2026? What changed after Project for the web and Project Online, how the two compare, and what neither covers.

Time Reporting in Microsoft Planner: Is It Possible?

Microsoft Planner has no built-in time reporting, so teams turn to middleware or Project Online. What that gap costs and how PPM Express Time fills it.

Excel in Project Portfolio Management with the “What is PPM?” guide

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