Course
Digicomp Code MSPL
Project management – smart & simple – with Microsoft Planner («MSPL»)
If Excel and emails are too chaotic for project planning and Project seems too complex, Microsoft Planner lets you manage projects easily, visually, and collaboratively, without any project management overhead.
Duration
1 day
Price
680.–
Course facts
- Understanding the differences between Microsoft Planner and Project Online and their possible uses
- Planning and structuring projects securely with tasks, dependencies, and buckets in Microsoft Planner
- Tracking and visualizing project progress with views, baseline plans, and reports in Microsoft Planner
- Working collaboratively through integration with Microsoft Teams and use of Power BI
1 Basics
- Difference between Microsoft Planner and Project Online Desktop Client
- Difference between licenses
- Microsoft Planner
- Planner Plan 1
- Planner & Project Plan 3
- Planner & Project Plan 5
- Navigation on the web interface
- Different views (grid, board, timeline, charts, Gantt, etc.)
- Filters and grouping in views
2 Project planning
- Creating a project with and without a template (Basic and Premium)
- Start and end dates of a project
- Tasks and responsibilities
- Structure with summary and subtasks
- Dependencies between tasks
- Attachments
- Tasks in user-defined buckets
- Task progress
- Categorization of tasks with labels
- Creating a baseline plan
- Task history
3 Customizing
- Columns and column headers
- Conditional formatting
4 Collaboration with other apps
- Migration of project plans in Microsoft Teams
- Project roadmap
- Report with PowerBI
5 Outlook
- AI-supported project management
Using practical examples, you will learn about all the planning processes involved in a project in Microsoft Planner.
This course is aimed at project staff who want to independently plan and manage small to medium-sized projects (without many dependencies and with a limited duration).
Initial experience with Microsoft 365 is an advantage.