How To Use Microsoft Planner As A Kanban Board. Microsoft planner is a planning tool and shall not be used to collaborate on documents. It’s a hugely powerful piece of software, but it’s also complicated and not therefore may not be suitable for your business.
To add a kanban tab, click add a tab to the right of the tabs in a channel and choose vsts. “kanban boards visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. The planner tool bundles up with microsoft 365 and is used for personal planning and group planning activities.
Using microsoft planner, you can create a plan, assign tasks, compile a team and update the status of the associated tasks.
I’ve been using planner now for my latest project, and it gives me everything that i want in a digital kanban board, without all the fuss and complexity of project. When you choose “new plan” from the side menu, you’ll have the chance to title your new plan, describe it, decide whether it’ll be private or public, and give it an email address. Select “azure boards” to add it to the channel: So that we can use this meaningfully with microsoft planner, i recommend a quick refresher of the model, which is very nicely described on the kanbanblog.