{"id":2027,"date":"2016-06-13T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:15:40","slug":"microsoft-takes-aim-trello-asana-launching-planner-misfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/microsoft-takes-aim-trello-asana-launching-planner-misfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes aim at Trello and Asana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Last week Microsoft announced the launch of is new project management software called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-us\/business\/office-365-planner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planner<\/a>, a hybrid of Trello\u2019s UI and Asana\u2019s functionality for project management software market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">For most industry observers, it was inevitable that Microsoft would play catch-up in the fast-growing work collaboration segment.\u00a0\u00a0 What was surprising was the lack of originality on the part of Microsoft and the apparent \u201ccopy-cat\u201d nature of its new offering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Let\u2019s start with what Microsoft got right: its UI is clean and elegant. It looks easy to use, and it\u2019s integrated into Office 365. Although there is a cottage industry of analysts and journalists who like to predict Microsoft\u2019s demise, in the last year the company has fared <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/microsoft-launches-planner-a-trello-like-project-manag-1780875831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well relative to Google for Work<\/a>. In other words, Office 365 is not going away and for the millions of Microsoft customers who have transitioned to the platform, Planner will be a nice-to-have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The one overriding negative is that Planner is too lightweight to compete in the Enterprise space where Office 365 dominates.\u00a0\u00a0 In other words, larger companies looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online project management software<\/a> and collaboration tools will be underwhelmed by the Planner.\u00a0\u00a0 At the same time, the Small and Medium Business segment has been slower to adopt Office 365. In many cases, these companies use Google Docs for file sharing and are unlikely to use the Planner.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2031 size-full\" title=\"Microsoft Planner\" src=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner.png\" alt=\"Microsoft planner\" width=\"1246\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner.png 1246w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1246px) 100vw, 1246px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>What is Microsoft\u00a0Planner?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">From what we can tell, Microsoft\u00a0Planner is a combination of file sharing and task management. There are \u201cHubs,\u201d \u201cCards,\u201d \u201cBoards\u201d and \u201cBuckets\u201d to organize projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">A \u201cHub\u201d provides a snapshot of the progress of each individual project. Tasks that have not yet started are coded yellow, blue signals that tasks are in progress, red indicates delays and green is for completed tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Within each \u201cBoards,\u201d there is a list of all the tasks associated with a project. The project teamwork is organized in \u201cBuckets\u201d of tasks. Buckets can be added by simply dragging and dropping. If this sounds familiar, that is because Microsoft has simply renamed some of the basic elements of the Kanban board with some new terminology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Below are images of the Binfire and Trello Kanban boards:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Binfire Project Dashboard (Kanban Board)<a href=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2029 size-full\" title=\"Binfire UI\" src=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire.png\" alt=\"Binfire Kanban Board\" width=\"1350\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire.png 1350w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Binfire-768x360.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Trello Kanban Board<a href=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2028 size-full\" title=\"Trello UI\" src=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello.png\" alt=\"Trello Kanban Board\" width=\"1358\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello.png 1358w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello-1024x412.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Trello-768x309.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1358px) 100vw, 1358px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Our assessment is that the difference between Planner and Trello is primarily on the UI.\u00a0\u00a0 Microsoft scores higher points for look and feel, but lower points for functionality.\u00a0\u00a0 Comparing Planner and Asana, Microsoft scores equally on UI and slightly better on functionality.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2030 size-full\" title=\"Microsoft UI\" src=\"https:\/\/34.136.207.224\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Planner UI\" width=\"1259\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1.png 1259w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Microsoft-Planner1-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Microsoft Project versus Microsoft Planner<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">How does Planner compare with MS Project?\u00a0\u00a0 Microsoft Project is still the 1,000-pound gorilla in the project management software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> Although some would argue that Project is more a dinosaur than a gorilla, the fact is that many enterprise-wide projects are Project-based.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When it comes to Microsoft, Project continues to be a (smallish) cash cow that does not get much in the way of R&amp;D attention.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Very little has been done over the last few years to update Project or to integrate it into Microsoft\u2019s broader Information Worker offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Therefore, anyone hoping that Planner would be a light version of Project will likely be disappointed.\u00a0\u00a0 There is no integration between Project and Planner and this is unlikely to change any time soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Asana vs. Trello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">How will Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-us\/business\/task-management-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planner<\/a> impact Asana versus Trello? Many people thought that Microsoft would buy an outside project collaboration suite, so there are probably some unhappy investors who heard the news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">From a functionality perspective, Trello is a basic Kanban board whereas Asana has some extra functionality such as commenting on tasks and groups.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Trello works well for small teams, but it is hard to scale. It does not have advanced functionality such as subtasks, dependencies and Gantt Charts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Asana is somewhat more advanced than Trello because it supports grouping of teams and projects without the Kanban board option. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">However, the UI does not support nested subtasks well and it is cumbersome to use if you have a large number of tasks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Asana does not offer advanced concepts such as dependency and multiple task assignments.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Gantt Charts and Time Tracking are not native. In order to use these functionalities users need to access third-party tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Closing Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">We always welcome new technologies into the online project management software ecosystem. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Competition is good and drives innovation.\u00a0\u00a0 At this point, Microsoft Planner is not likely to have much impact on Kanban-based solutions such as Trello or simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/introduction-task-management-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">task management software<\/a> like Asana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Other comprehensive project management software solutions which incorporate collaborative task management plus the ease of use and Agile nature of Kanban boards, such as Binfire are out of reach of Microsoft Planner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Do you currently use Trello or Asana? We\u2019d love to hear your perspective on Microsoft Planner and whether you would consider a switch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Is the fact that Planner is part of office 365 helps or hurts its chance of adoption?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">We have published a nice infographic about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/project-management-best-practices\/\">project management best practices<\/a> that you might find handy.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"> <div id=\"wen-cta-9842\" class=\"wen-cta-wrap wen-cta-template-default\"><div class=\"wen-cta-inner\"><div class=\"wen-cta-content\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\" https:\/\/www.sagekick.com\/project-tracking-software\/ \"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ad-1-300x129.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ad-1-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ad-1-768x330.png 768w, https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ad-1.png 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><!-- .wen-cta-content --><div class=\"wen-cta-button-wrap\"><\/div><!-- .wen-cta-button-wrap --><\/div><!-- .wen-cta-inner --><\/div><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Microsoft announced the launch of is new project management software called\u00a0Planner, a hybrid of Trello\u2019s UI and Asana\u2019s functionality for project management software market. 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