Task Management Misery

[PaigeHilliard]

In my humble opinion, the various task tools are seriously lacking. You can create and manage To-Do's/Tasks in 4 different areas of 365. 

1.) Project Site Task List 

2.) Planner

3.) To-Do's

4.) OneNote

None of these seem to speak with eachother and I am sure that I speak for many when I say that having to go to four different apps to manage my tasks is rather tedious. We need a way to integrate or push updates between the apps for Tasks. While I understand OneNote wouldn't really connect to the rest for various reasons, I think there still should be some sort of the solution for the rest. 

In my perfect world, the new To-Do's app would be the hub for any task assigned to you (whether in Planner or a Project Task List) as well as a location to create separate To-Do's for yourself. 

As is, I and our users find the lack of integration between all of the different task managers tedious and many tasks get lost in the shuffle.

[dixus]

If yo do so, please consider also VSTS work items.

Regards,

Holger

[karaoan]

Completely agree. The Planner integration with Flow is currently woefully lacking with many of the key attributes e.g.  "assigned to" not being available. I really wonder how much thought went into this process from the MS side when an absolute key field attribute is forgotten to be enabled.

[scotwitt]

Agree. That's why my team hates using Teams- the promise have one place still isn't realized in O365.

The user story is simple for the user view of this:

As any user able to access Office 365,

When I open Teams and reach the appropriate Teams view,

Then I want to view, reply and delete Assigned Tasks, New e-mail (user defined), conversations, setup meetings

And not lose current Teams features.

Now, my 20 years as an Agile Business Analyst and PM/Scrum Master that this isn't going to happen for quite a while, but we'd like to hear one of your SMEs or program owners to say thisa is a defibitive goal for the "paperless office."