Integrating the Microsoft Project Online Project Site with Microsoft Teams
Many of you that use Project Online are aware of the Project Site. The document library is great for storing project artifacts related to your project, such as construction documentation, functional specifications, gap analysis reports, and more. And Issues list lets you track items that are currently impacting your project. The Risks list lets the project team track events that have the potential to impact your project. A Team Calendar highlights important team-related events and there is also an online OneNote notebook for all those team meetings. In working with customers I have noticed many situations, including internally, where users will create a Team in MS Teams, or a Channel withing an existing MS Team, to facilitate collaboration on projects. While this is a great way to help centralize collaboration, I've often thought about what happens after the project has concluded. Let's say 6 months down the road you have about 20 or so projects completed. Would you like to move the project Team or channel location in order to reduce clutter and stick to having active projects in MS Teams? If so, when using the inherent "Files" in MS Teams your are going to need to migrate the information elsewhere. Conversely, if you use MS Teams as merely the mechanism to service as a hub, yet keep the functionality in the Project Site, you merely use Project Site URLs and the tabs in a Team or Channel to bring that collaboration inside teams. In this video I quickly demonstrate doing just this. A project channel is created. Followed by a link to the Project Site Documents, as well as the Risks and Issues lists. This is a very easy process and one I hope you find helpful.Microsoft Project Online
Microsoft Project Online is a web-based project and portfolio management solution in Microsoft 365 that is great for:- Managing multiple projects
- Tracking work on timesheets
- Balancing broad resource needs
- Project planning
- and MUCH more!