Being a new piece of software, its UI was built recently and based on a modern workplace philosophy and lessons learned from similar apps. It’s meant to be a Trello or Jira competitor and employs the concepts of tasks, buckets, boards, and dashboards to cleanly display upcoming tasks, their owners, and associated details.
Planner is significantly easier to use than Project and requires very little training. I’ve used both products in various roles: Project as a formal project manager at a US government contractor and Planner for managing smaller team projects in my current role. I’ll cover several the major differences to keep in mind below.
Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project have some overlap in their use cases, but you’ll want to know the impact of choosing one over the other when it comes to everyday work.
