- Hello and welcome to our Spring 2023 Ask Me Anything.
Project Planner and To Do
have had an enormous year of progress and growth.
In the practice of project management
as well as our industry continues to transform around us
in exciting ways.
The team is excited to show you our community,
the amazing updates to our products,
as well as give you a sneak peek into what is about to come.
Work has been transformed over the past 10 years.
Teams are distributed and global,
requiring more collaboration than ever.
It takes a mix of methodologies
to coordinate teams properly.
Everyone needs to stay informed and aligned
to do their best work.
AI will elevate project managers
to new and more strategic roles.
Our vision is to connect all of the people,
processes and work in M365
to help you feel calm and controlled
as you pursue your goals and objectives.
To Do, Planner and Project are our integrated system
for managing all of your work.
The integration of all of your tasks and plans
into the Task App in Teams
has resulted in extraordinary growth
in the creation of the largest base of active users
in the industry.
We continue to improve these systems with My Day,
Flagged Mails and other sources
that all add up to a complete view of your work.
In addition, Planner continues to improve
with a new Grid View, Recurring Tasks and Rich Text.
And coming very soon,
Planner will capture all of the tasks that you create
in your team's meetings.
There will also be a Planner Loop Component,
so you can host your Planner plans anywhere in M365.
With the global nature of teams,
we are improving project
to help coordination and visibility.
A number of recent releases such as Conversations,
Notifications and Activity Feeds help that coordination.
Coming very soon, our Task History capability will roll out.
Combined with additional notification improvements,
Project will ensure everyone is on top of progress.
Almost every project today requires multiple methodologies.
Combining the speed of Agile
with the accountability of Waterfall.
Project now has the world's favorite scheduling engine,
combined with Kanban, sprints, backlogs,
and people workload views.
That can be in any and every project.
And our new templates now make it easier than ever
to get started.
With all these new capabilities and the demand for Project,
we have created a system for users
to easily try out Project and share it with their friends.
This will soon include the ability
to upgrade a plan to a Project
and invite friends to join you.
Importantly, IT professionals will have full control
of the trial process
and will be able to avoid the problems of dark IT.
We have not forgotten our professional project managers.
We continue to add features and scale to Projects
to enable larger and more complex projects.
Our goal is to help our Planner users
grow in skills and maturity
to help fill the professional project manager gap.
Managing the execution of projects is important,
but aligning on why we manage projects is critical.
This spring, we will be releasing
a number of amazing features
to enable you to manage your organization's goals
and align projects to those goals.
We will enable you to connect projects and plans
to goals in Viva Goals,
and report on the progress in those goals.
In addition, project teams will be able
to set up local goals they can use to align their team
and see how their work aligns to those goals.
All of this work is built
on the most trusted project management platform.
Our promise is that we will always hold
the security and compliance of your information
as our highest priority,
from the smallest business to the most complex sovereignty.
We also know that many of our customers
will be migrating
to the new Project for the Web infrastructure
in the coming years,
and we are preparing the tools and capabilities
you will need for a clean transition.
Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you for your passion.
Thank you for your feedback and community.
Please enjoy the show.