

Taking advantage of Office 365 like that saves a lot of preparation time, like adding people to an enterprise resource pool in standard Project fashion.

The Project web app lets you start simply in a grid view that looks rather like Microsoft ToDo, creating a project by making a list of tasks the way that you would in a task management app and assigning tasks to people who are already in the system because they're in Teams, or just in your Active Directory. Now that service has launched, where does that leave the desktop version of Project, and which one should you be using? Beyond boards That version of Project Online was more or less a placeholder for a new project management system that Microsoft was still building on top of the Common Data Service for Apps platform that powers Dynamics, using the powerful scheduling engine from the desktop and server versions of Project, but still being hosted by SharePoint Online to make it easier to share documents and chat in Teams. When we looked at the online version of Project a year ago, it was a fairly basic service built on top of SharePoint with support for modern Groups and a handy feature called Roadmap for getting an overview of multiple projects.

