Project Management Asked by Jason H on October 26, 2021
The division I work in has 3 PMs that share resources. We have a three fold need we’re trying to engineer a solution for within the Microsoft Office ecosystem.
Each of the PMs manages their projects via separate project plans and we are migrating to Project Online. We don’t have access to PowerBI, which would allow aggregation across multiple Project Online projects.
I believe I can solve requirement 2 via a Flow path from Outlook to Project Online.
For items 1 and 3 however, I’m stuck and would love some insight or ideas.
I’ve investigated using Planner, but without the 2-way integration that isn’t going to work. We looked at trying to use Flow to link Project Online -> CDM -> Planner, but that doesn’t surface data properly that I can see.
I’ve considered going from Project Online -> Sharepoint -> Planner, but I can’t get the start/end dates or resources into Planner properly via Flow.
I’ve looked at Project Online -> Sharepoint. This seems to work, but it is a flat task list instead of an Agile-esce bucket view like Planner and will require multiple Flow plans to manage everything Planner does on its own. This also doesn’t handle task completion very well.
I’ve looked at Power Apps, but it appears to have limitations that prevents accessing data across multiple projects.
With all that being said. I’m really looking for any insights on how we can accomplish our needs within the Office ecosystem.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. MS Project is just a pile of hot garbage. You can't do stuff like this in MS Project. A friend of mine tried to do something similiar and it didn't work. He tried to synchronize some calendars and ressources but MS Project does not support it in the way he wanted to.
MS Project is like a very uncomfortable train on bumpy, old rails. It gets you where, and only where the developers intended you to go and this in the most uncomfortable way possible. If you want to do anything that is not planned by the developers you're just plain out of your luck. Try to migrate to a real PM system. I've heard good things about Trello.
Answered by user32793 on October 26, 2021
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