Asks, tasks, and projects in Microsoft 365 provide an integrated way to manage work across the Microsoft ecosystem. The document discusses: 1) Asks are any request for action, while tasks are a specific type of ask to be completed by a set date. Not all asks are tasks. 2) Disconnected systems, distracted workforces, and security risks can hurt productivity. 3) Microsoft 365 features like Teams, Planner, To Do and Project enable organizing and prioritizing work through a cohesive experience across apps and services. This includes breaking large tasks into steps and suggesting important tasks.

1. Asks, Tasks and Projects
Nancy Pearce
National Specialist, Collaborative Work Management
nanpear@microsoft.com
Project Virtual Conference 2020

2. What are asks and tasks?
All tasks are asks
but not all asks are
tasks

3. Challenges to
productivity
Distracted workforce
Disconnected systems
Security and compliance risk

4. Tasks in
Microsoft 365
Empower every person, team
and organization to feel in
control of achieving their
shared goals in life and work​
Organize work and life
Optimize business processes
Security and privacy you can trust

5. Core principles of tasks in Microsoft 365
IntegrationIntelligenceCoherence

6. Simple, familiar look and feel across every experience
Maintain user expectations
Enable actions, navigation, and discovery
Coherence

7. Leverage intelligent services across Microsoft stack
Help users with proactive suggestions
Assist in organizing and prioritizing
Intelligence

8. Connect any task-related experience to logical endpoints
Create experiences applicable to all types of users
Scale task capabilities from individual use to organizational workflows
Integration

9. Teams
Dynamics
Planner in
SharePointAutomate
Sticky
Notes
CortanaAlexa
Outlook
Microsoft
Graph
IoTLOB
Azure
DevOps
Tasks in
Office docsEdge
Microsoft
LauncherOneNote
Completed
In progress
Longer term
To Do Planner Project
Tasks across Microsoft apps and services

10. *List view is the only view available on mobile at launch; additional views coming soon
Tasks in Teams: a more cohesive task experience

11. Plan and manage your day
Be more intentional about what you
want to get done with the My Day list
Focus on what’s most important
See your most important tasks with
Suggestions to prioritize your day
Make tasks manageable
Break tasks down into simple steps, add
due dates, and set reminders to keep you
on track
Get more done, together
projects and get things done faster
To Do: your tasks in one place

12. Familiar, collaborative teaming
Manage your plan in Teams and access
relevant assets through robust task cards
Fast, visual status
See your plan’s visualized status, down to
who’s assigned to what task, in a single click
Microsoft 365 platform parity
Get all the same security, compliance,
scalability, and performance benefits as
other Microsoft 365 solutions
Simple, organized experience
Build plans in minutes and organize
tasks the way you want in a familiar Office
environment
Planner: tasks across shared goals

13. Project: depend on each other for tasks
Fresh new experience
Collaboration made easy
Project Manager empowered
Innovation platform

14. Teams work the way they want
Enterprises get the results they need
Microsoft’s work management vision

15. The modern work management suite
Microsoft
Teams
Planner To-DoAzure
Boards
Project Workplace
Analytics
Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power Automate Microsoft Power Apps Microsoft Power Virtual Agents
One ecosystem that spans your work

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