Hello reader! Welcome to The Project Corner, or how I have started calling it in more recent articles and video’s: TPC.
Continue reading New to TPC? Let’s recapWhat are Workback Plans in Planner and Teams?
Wedged between other new features on the planner blog, we read about “Workback Plans” in public preview. But not much more is shared, which is odd because it can be a cool feature. Well, there is an image, and a one liner with another link:
Workback Plan generation is now available in channels, helping teams quickly create reverse timelines based on a target deadline.
On the second page we get:
Workback Plans in Teams channels: Project Manager Agent and the Channel Agent together now support the creation of AI-powered Workback Plans, automatically generating a reverse timeline of tasks and milestones based on the target deadline and goal provided.
Last post of the year, looking ahead
Yeah… this will never rank high in Google 😉. But let’s wrap-up 2025 and look forward to another year together.
The end of Project Online
30 September 2026, that is the day that all Project Online Services stop working. Microsoft anounced this date today in their official blog article. Let’s take a moment and discuss what this means for organizations that work with the product today.
How to report on Planner Portfolios
In my last article I build a resource focussed report for both Planner, and Planner Premium “plans”. In that article I removed the Roadmap tables, because they didn’t work anymore. But what if you want to report on the new portfolio feature, which is similar in so many ways? Let’s find out together!
Resource assignment report on Planner and Planner Premium
I was recently asked how to report on resources in Planner Premium. And this got me thinking, could I do reporting on both planner (only cards and no hours/capacity) and Premium in one go?
Turns out you can, but… it takes some work to get there. Let me show you what to do, and at the end I’ll tell you where to get the template file.
Major Updates Coming to Microsoft Planner in second half of 2025
Microsoft is accelerating the transformation of its project management offerings with a significant evolution of Planner set to take place between late April and early September 2025. For organizations invested in Microsoft’s project management ecosystem, understanding these updates is crucial for a smooth transition and to take advantage of new capabilities.
In this article, I will look closer at each of the upcoming enhancements to Microsoft Planner, highlight key migration changes, and clarify which features will not carry over from Project for the web.
Launching the Voices of the Neighborhood podcast
I’m happy to share this new initiative I started!
Voices of the Neighborhood is a podcast where I talk with the Microsoft MVPs that work in The Digital Neighborhood.
Projectum, the company I work for, joined TDN a few years ago. And with that, we got access to so many great people.
And since I am not shy when it comes to sharing knowledge (blog, YouTube, newsletter 😉). I wanted to try my hand on a format I personally use on a daily basis: only audio format podcasting!
In this podcast, in each episode, I’m going to talk with one of our many (18 and counting) Microsoft MVPs. The podcast will probably be all over the place, spanning AI, Dynamics security, Intune, AR, and more. But, if you are a bit like me, you don’t mind getting interested in new topics.
So, for something completely different, take a look at the website for the podcast recordings to date:
The Voices of the Neighborhood Podcast
Or, you can even listen to the first episode (and others) right here:
Future episodes and plans
My next guest is Magnus, from the sister company Delegate. I’ve always enjoyed my talks with him and look forward to the opportunity to dig into his work.
For some reason, I can’t get my profile picture in the right format to share it on the major podcasting platforms. So, the logo might change a couple of times in the near future while I figure out what to do.
But once I have that figured out, Voices of the Neighborhood will become available on the big streaming platforms as well!
Let me know if you listened in on the podcast and what you thought, I’m eager to learn.