This is by design! You can create tasks, sub-tasks, assign them to users right within the browser! What are the core features of Project for the Web?īelow I would like to summarize its core features and capabilities.

Once you do that, you will notice Project icon in the Office 365 App Launcher (or you can also navigate to this URL: ) Please reference this link for more info on licenses. Project for the Web is not part of the core Office 365 plans and requires separate licenses.

The first thing you would need to do is purchase proper licenses. Released in the fall of 2019, Project for the Web is my latest love story. Well, this brings us to Project for the Web. We lacked something in between – a tool that was web-based, intuitive, can be accessed and used by everyone, and that allowed for a bit more sophisticated project and task management than Planner. On the other hand, Planner, while web-based and easy to use, was too informal. MS Project, while powerful, required that the user was proficient in the software and the discipline of Project Management. But, being a desktop tool, it is limited in terms of “collaboration” – it is really meant for project managers. With that being said, this was a costly solution both in terms of licensing and configuration costs.Īnd of course, we had and still have MS Project, which is a desktop tool that allows project managers to create sophisticated schedules with dependencies and resource management. Project Online allowed for project and portfolio and resource management not just within a project, but also across the portfolio of projects. On the other hand, we also had Project Online, which was meant for large enterprises and those with mature Project Management Office (PMO). Then we got Planner, which was purely web-based, modern, and intuitive, but it was only meant for small and informal projects as you could not manage dependencies between the tasks or resources. Its most significant appeal was the ability to synchronize it with MS Project and surface up the tasks to the users via the SharePoint site. Of course, we always had a Task List, which was just a custom list with metadata – it was not very user-friendly and did not have the intelligence of project software. Up until recently, there have not been too many options for team task management in SharePoint and Office 365. Current task management options Task List So let me use this opportunity to introduce you to this beautiful tool and hopefully share the excitement I have.

This topic is dear to my heart as I spent 15 years in IT Project management before establishing my own SharePoint consulting practice. Remember how Cinderella, after years of misery, found her Prince? Well, this is how I feel like writing this article, and “my prince” (or princess in my case) is the new tool we now have in Office 365 called Project for the Web. I wanted to write this post for a very long time.

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