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The Project and Roadmap apps provide tools for managing, tracking, and collaborating on group projects within Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft Teams
has received another set of features, notably the new Project and Roadmap applications.
The Project and Roadmap apps provide tools for managing, tracking, and collaborating on group projects within Microsoft Teams. Both have been integrated into Teams to help users keep work and work-related conversations in the same place, which according to Microsoft had been one of the most common requests from users.
The Project en app allows team users to create new projects or roadmaps, or open existing ones, regardless of their role. It offers the same features and capabilities as the Microsoft Project for web services, allowing users to schedule and assign resources to projects within Teams.
For groups that juggle multiple projects at the same time and need visibility into all work in progress, Roadmap allows Teams users to connect projects to each other so they can be tracked and viewed across the organization.
Users can create a consolidated timeline view of Microsoft Project and Azure Boards projects and plan larger initiatives, with milestones and milestones, so all work is visible.
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“data-credit =” Image: Microsoft “rel =” noopener noreferrer nofollow “> Teams users can create new projects or roadmaps, or open existing ones. Image: Microsoft
In announcing the new features, Microsoft said: “Today, each of us has become a project manager. To stay on top of the ever-changing requirements of our jobs, we need tools that are simple but robust enough to support any requirement, flexible enough to support any type of project and, more importantly, easy enough to collaborate with anyone no matter where they are or what device they are using. “
All Office 365 users will be able to view shared projects and roadmaps within Teams in read-only mode, Microsoft said. Users with the appropriate Project for the Web licenses to create and edit projects and roadmaps will be able to do the same from Teams.
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During its earnings call last week, Microsoft revealed that there are now
115 million people using Teams
daily, an increase of 40 million since April 2020.
October brought
various updates to the platform,
including live captions with speaker attribution; the ability to pin specific posts and video feeds in a meeting; a read-only mode for Microsoft Whiteboard; and the ability to store call or meeting recordings in
OneDrive for business
or
SharePoint.
Furthermore, an updated roadmap from Microsoft Teams has revealed that the platform will increase the maximum number of participants who can join a meeting from 300 to 1,000 starting this month (November).
A Microsoft Teams engineer also revealed in a post on the platform’s User Feedback Forum that desktop users will soon be able to directly quote and reply to a specific message within Teams, much as the mobile version currently allows.
The engineer didn’t give any indication of when the functionality would be available, but said Microsoft was tracking it as a “top request” within the public forum.
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