Question on MS SharePoint

Posted by Ken
Aug 17, 2015 at 03:43 PM

We have been slowly moving to SharePoint online at work, albeit to a highly restricted environment as they want a somewhat “uniform” environment across departments. And, we have been having basic train on SharePoint over the past month or two, but mostly focusing on the basics. In a recent demonstration, it became clear to me that my manager’s other work unit was initially using a spread sheet to track projects as they moved from stage to stage (and employee to employee) in a review/approval process. I believe they may have recently converted this spreadsheet to a SharePoint list, but that still seemed somewhat short of what so many software companies are offering teams that do this type of work. And then I began to wonder, does SharePoint offer a similar module that allows items/tasks to be easily assigned and tracked so progress can easily be followed for a number of items, or did Microsoft completely miss the market for this type of software? Programs like Asana, Trello, and their many competitors seems to be fighting for this market, and it seems funny that Microsoft does not really seem to have a horse in this race. Any thoughts or clarification would be greatly appreciated?

—Ken