The role of Microsoft Teams within Project Management

Collaboration and communication across the organization is essential for project management teams. So it's important that project management teams have the right tools to be able to work effectively. Microsoft Teams provides a channel of communication that contributes to project management success.

Using Microsoft Teams out-of-the-box for Project Management success

Microsoft Teams provides a platform for project management teams, enabling real-time conversations, document management, and much more. This blog covers how you can effectively use Microsoft Teams for project teamwork.

• Accessible group work with Microsoft Teams
• Department wide updates using Microsoft Teams
• Streamline project communications
• Microsoft Tasks by Planner and To Do
• Making Teams a powerful platform for Project Management Work

Accessible group work with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams links with OneDrive, Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint, allows all documents to be stored and accessed in one place. Project Management teams can utilize the Microsoft Office suite to collaborate in real-time on projects and documents. This is particularly useful when working on projects where time is a factor.

Department wide updates using Microsoft Teams

By creating channels for the department, Project Management teams can quickly provide updates, feedback and coordinate work projects. This allows for a quicker and leaner work process that benefits the Project Management team.

Streamline project communications

With Microsoft Teams, Project Management teams can streamline project communications and collaborate more closely on key accounts.

Microsoft Tasks by Planner and To Do

This app is available in Microsoft Teams and consolidates your To Do tasks and your Planner tasks in one place. This project management tool tracks and manages all project tasks in one convenient app. Create, assign, and track tasks individually or collaboratively with your team, and see everything come together in one place.

On your left-side navigation bar of Microsoft Teams, you may see Tasks by Planner and To Do. This was previously called Planner. If you don’t see this, click on the Ellipsis icon at the bottom of the navigation list to add the app.

This can be also be added as a new tab within a Teams Channel.

When to use Microsoft To Do vs. Microsoft Tasks