Microsoft has introduced a number of huge enhancements for Microsoft Planner that it has labored on during the last month. Three of the 4 enhancements apply to its Venture Supervisor agent, an AI-powered digital venture supervisor designed to streamline and improve venture planning and execution. It lets you outline objectives, break objectives into actionable duties, and execute these duties for you.

Earlier this yr, Microsoft introduced real-time process notifications for the Venture Supervisor agent in Planner in Groups. This allows you to know when a process is completed and prepared for evaluate or when your enter is required for the agent to maneuver ahead. On this replace, the Redmond large is increasing this functionality so that you simply get notified through electronic mail. This allows you to hold up-to-date with what the agent is doing even when away from Groups.

One other new characteristic for the Venture Supervisor agent, which is now in public preview, is the flexibility to generate standing experiences. For instance, you should utilize this instrument to auto-synthesize your plan’s progress, milestones, dangers, and subsequent steps, letting your complete crew know what’s happening with the venture. That is now obtainable in public preview for English customers, however further languages will get it within the coming days.

The final Venture Supervisor agent enchancment is that it now helps greater than 40 languages, bringing it as much as par with Microsoft 365 Copilot – minus Arabic and Hebrew, till later this week. This may permit individuals outdoors of the English-speaking world to make use of Venture Supervisor agent of their native language.

The ultimate change to Planner doesn’t have something to do with Venture Supervisor agent, it’s a brand new bulk enhancing characteristic that will help you enhance effectivity. To make use of it simply go to the Grid view of any primary plan after which set the duties you wish to replace by deciding on and dragging the duties utilizing the Ctrl + Up or Down arrows. You should use this to replace a number of duties on the similar time, whether or not that be assign duties, alter priorities, replace progress, or modify begin and due dates.

Microsoft used this announcement to additionally remind customers that from August 1, all customers shall be transitioned from Microsoft Venture for the online to Microsoft Planner. Apart from retiring Venture for the online, Microsoft may also retire the Venture and Roadmap apps in Microsoft Groups. The corporate mentioned no actions are obligatory for this alteration as all licensing ought to carry over seamlessly.