Comments on: Optimizing Task Planning in MS Project Environments (Tools) https://www.theprojectgroup.com/blog/en/optimizing-task-planning/ TPG The Project Group provides a blog for project management experts, covering subjects like PPM, integration, ressource management and similar. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 By: Bettina von Staden https://www.theprojectgroup.com/blog/en/optimizing-task-planning/#comment-29357 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:50:49 +0000 https://www.theprojectgroup.com/blog/en/?p=2900#comment-29357 In reply to Hauke Basse.

Thanks for your valuable comment, Hauke Basse!

You are right. With Microsoft Project alone or the available Microsoft tools, the challenge cannot be met.

However, with our own tool TPG PSLink (visible in the screenshots), we can integrate Microsoft Project with almost any other task planning tool to achieve the desired outcome. If you want to let us know your specific needs, please fill in our contact form (English or German), and we will get back to you. From your e-mail address, I can see that you and your company are based in Switzerland where we also have an office.

Johann Strasser, the author of the article, also wants to point you to our 2022 webinar on task planning with MS Project and Jira which is available to watch on YouTube: if you jump to 14:25, you can directly view a demo of how the integration of Project and Jira works via TPG PSLink. (The webinar is in German, but being based in Switzerland, I assume you would be fine with this.)

You might also want to look at the following use cases on our website:

1. Integration of Jira with SAP, MS Project etc. (English and German)
2. TFS / DevOps Integration with MS Project Server / Online (English and German)

Lastly, the article is also available in German language on this blog if you are interested:
Optimale Aufgabenplanung im Microsoft Project Umfeld (Tools)

]]> By: Hauke Basse https://www.theprojectgroup.com/blog/en/optimizing-task-planning/#comment-29324 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:54:03 +0000 https://www.theprojectgroup.com/blog/en/?p=2900#comment-29324 The introduction describes very well the requirements for the work management stack: The PM wants to have an overview, to plan the whole project, to assign tasks, to see how much work is left, and – important – to leave the detailing to the assignees from a certain level on.
I also mentions the problem: I do rather not want to let my project member to change the MPP – and in fact, the tool is too complicated for most project members. Also, MP does not offer simplified and rights-limited project member views. So MP alone does not seem to be the solution.

But unfortunately, the article does not really show a solution that makes me think: O yeah, this will work for sure for all the project roles and their specific requirements and needs.

Worse: I am afraid, the software market is not there yet. I have not heard of a tool that brings together the project management needs of the PM and the task management needs of the other project members.

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