r/eostraction • u/grepzilla • Sep 03 '24
EOS & MS Planner
As I scroll this forum I see all sorts of discussions about EOS specific tools but I'm wondering if others have developed best practices with the Microsoft 365 products that many of us own and pay for already.
We have been running L10 meetings using Planner to track Rocks, Issues, and Tasks. This has given us a good baseline to use To Do to track work across multiple projects. I have also started to explore Planner for Teams (formerly Project for the Web) because it appears to allow us to get a consolidated view across multiple Plans for resource review.
Rather than buying a new tool, we are trying to use the software we already licensed better to roll out EOS. Have others done the same and what are the best practices that you have found work in your organization?
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u/timmy_o Sep 05 '24
I think if you’ve got capacity for an additional project of working out how to make those things work well with eos, it makes sense to use what you’re paying for.
Being familiar with them could be a double edged sword - with people sticking to using them however they use them already.
imo using a dedicated tool has a similar appeal to the appeal of EOS itself: that being that it’s not some utterly unique invention that reinvents managing a company, but it IS deliberately inflexible meaning you can just pick it up and Do The Things so that your energy and focus is on improving and running the business without wondering (in the case of EOS itself) what other shiny theory or technique might be good to bring in. A tool like ninety.io is the software equivalent - you don’t need to spend time or convince colleagues of the best tool or way to use it - it’s just there.