BrightWork 365 Near Term Product Roadmap
We realize it is helpful for our Customers to have access to the near term BrightWork 365 Product Roadmap to learn the planned direction of the solution, including the types of capability the Product Development team is intending to add. Below are our current near-term planned priorities, taken from our backlog and informed by conversations with customers. Important notice - as you would expect, this is open to change based on feedback from our Customers.
Grid
We will continue to add new capabilities to the Grid that was shipped in our 2026-1 release and updated in our 2026-2 release. Current candidates include:
- Multiple Task Manipulations (e.g., Indent, Outdent, Drag and Drop, Assignees, Quick Update Task Status).
- Increase Task Name Character Limit.
- Task Discussions.
- Excel Import and Export.
- Default Fields to Display.
- Add Custom Fields.
- Copy and Paste Single/Multiple Tasks.
- Quick Mark Task In-Progress.
- More Task Column Filtering.
- Task Single Column Sorting.
- and more!
New Gantt Chart
Over a few releases we will build a new Gantt Chart to replace and improve upon the existing Gantt Chart. The first release or two will deliver the new Gantt with new capabilities not available in the current Gantt, including:
- New Read-Only Gantt for Portfolio with Programs and Projects.
- Read-Only Gantt for Program with Projects.
- Read-Only Gantt for Project.
- Read-Only Project and Program with Projects.
- Gantt that is configurable for Print to PDF.
During this period, we will leave the existing Gantt and all of its current capabilities in place. Thereafter we will fully replace the existing Gantt with a new Gantt, where the left hand side of the existing Gantt (i.e., the Grid portion of the Gantt) will be the new modern and more flexible Grid already shipped since our 2026-1 Release (as described above), so we are well underway!
Document Management and Teams Integration
A few releases back we changed the way in which BrightWork 365 integrates with SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams for collaboration and also for document / file management. We now intend to make enhancements and additions to this capability set based on the usage feedback received. Candidates include:
- Allow the Program Management Office (PMO) Manager or a Program Manager to setup a Teams Channel and a default library for various projects.
- Allow Project the option to benefit from a default set of documents / files.
Project and Portfolio Dashboard Reporting
- Deliver a Power BI weekly and monthly Snapshot Report over the out of the box historical values of key data points from the Project Status Reports (e.g., Health, Time, Cost, Scope, % Complete, Start and Finish Dates) – with the option for our Customers to include their own added indicators.
- Add “Project Archive Project” capability, to remove projects from the current Views and Reports.
- Make enhancements to the Project Management Insights report set delivered in our 2026-2 Release based on customer usage feedback, so that our Customers can use this information to improve / evolve Project and Portfolio Management practices.
Notifications
- Use the Power Platform (i.e., Power Automate) capabilities available to our Customers to send the Notifications.
- Allow for event driven (e.g., New Task Assigned, etc.) and schedule driven (e.g., Weekly Report of Overdue Tasks, etc.) Notifications.
- Allow customers to turn “on or off” these new Notifications.
- Add a knowledge base article explaining how easy it is to add Custom Notifications with Power Automate.
- Add a knowledge base article on how to add Notifications with Copilot assistance (for our customers that have access).
Automated Project Percent Complete
- Give Project Managers the option to auto-set the Project Percent Complete on the Project Status Tab from the calculation in our Scheduling Engine and add the option to default in the Project Template.
Lots More!
We have many other very cool capabilities on our Roadmap, in addition to the ones listed above. If you are an existing Customer and do not see your own #1, #2 or #3 item on the above list, please send a note to support365@brightwork.com with your feedback. We want to hear from you.
