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What 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.

Asking the Channel Agent what it can do. Note: the channel is called Planner

The PMO and Artificial Intelligence, AI, weekly post #05

Straight from Corfu, Greece. Here’s my latest update article on AI and the PMO.

Ancient Greek Project Manager, working on a hillside with Athens in the background. mosaic. — Ancient Greek Project Manager, working on a hillside with Athens in the background. Mosaic. – Bing again.

The PMO and Artificial Intelligence, AI, weekly post #02

Another week has passed, did you enjoy my last post? Let’s take a look at the Artificial Intelligence developments, specifically focussed on Project Management and the Project enthusiast.

Asking Bing for an image for “The Project Management Office and Artificial Intelligence”.

The PMO and Artificial Intelligence, AI, weekly post #01

The world is changing, and the current world changer is Artificial Intelligence. How do we, as Project Management professionals adapt? This is the first of a weekly post regarding anything I can find related to Artificial Intelligence and the wider Project and Portfolio Management world.

A image created by Bearly, using Stable Diffusion asking it for "The Project Management Office and Artificial Intelligence. — A image created by Bearly, using Stable Diffusion asking it for “The Project Management Office and Artificial Intelligence”.

The difference between Project for the web, Project Web App, Project Online and Project server

There are a number of “project” applications in the Microsoft landscape. The ones in the title aren’t even all there is. So, when I got this question from one of my readers I was interested to help out:

I need an article to remove my confusion about the difference between Project for the web, Project web app, Project Online and Project server
Varun Kumar Gupta, through my questionnaire

Let’s tackle this beast as my first article of 2023!

Nov-2025 update: please be aware! Project Online (with Project Web App) is going away as of September 2026. Also: Project for the web is renamed to Planner.

The screen on top of Project Online home pages in November 2025. — The end is in sight for Project Online. Look for alternatives if you are still using it.

Project for the web Feedback portal update April 2022

New features come in monthly. And for Project for the web there’s a Feedback portal that we can use to let Microsoft know what to build next. This is the fourth post in the series regarding the Feedback portal. And if you have been following along you might already know what’s coming. Previous posts can be found here, here and here.

For all the rest of you, I’ll look at previously discussed feature requests. And I’ll pick a new one and discuss the feature. If it’s a cool feature you might want to vote for it, it helps Microsoft focus on creating the features we want in the tool.

Project for the web Feedback portal update March 2022

Project for the web is a Microsoft cloud-based solution that gets new features regularly, as you might know from my YouTube series on the topic. This blog series is about the Feedback portal that we can use to let Microsoft know which new features to include in the product.

This is the second update since the introduction post. I will briefly look at the progress on previously mentioned feature requests and I will take a look at two additional features that might be interesting for Project for the web.