
The Kanban “task board” is a tried and tested approach that many recognize.

Can be customized with endless additional metadata that your task list may require, and it is extremely flexible in terms of layout.Ability to create automation of tasks through Power Automate.Little to no extensibility or customization beyond out of the box configuration.Has seen some minor updates but nothing significant in quite some time.Tasks can be copied or moved to other plans.Tasks can be assigned to multiple people.Multiple ways to view information (by plan, by bucket, by progress).Support for buckets, progress, labels, assignees, dates, priority, sub-tasks, attachments, comments.Planner Tasks integrate well with our views in To Do, Teams, and Outlook.The Kanban “task board” is a tried and tested approach that many recognize and Planner has implemented it well.The reality is there is no single “best way” to manage tasks, and we are still seeing more options being added (e.g., Loop), without a real coherent strategy to tie these options together. This creates a huge amount of confusion for end users, in knowing what tool to use when and finding a way to see a holistic view of all their tasks.

They have also created a number of overlapping user experiences without providing clarity around which tools communicate with one another, and which do not.

Microsoft has offered a variety of tools to address different use cases for task management, from personal to enterprise. Where are all the places we can create tasks? There are a crazy number of ways to manage tasks in Microsoft 365, some of which overlap, while others don’t.
