Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Project Operations in 2026 release wave 1

Overview

In one application, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams so they can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. The application provides the necessary visibility, collaboration, and agility across the project lifecycle to drive success for project-centric businesses. Powered by Microsoft Power Platform, customers get an unmatched set of capabilities that enable everyone to analyze, act, and automate across their organization to transform their services business. It's everything you need to run your project operations, from deal management to financials, all in one application.

For 2026 release wave 1, we deliver functionally rich experiences in the following areas:

• Support for Change Orders in the modern architecture of Project Operations.
• Improvements in project planning with what-if scenario modeling, global view of resource assignments, better control, and granular availability views for resources.
• Usability improvements in the quotation, project budgeting, and contract management experiences in the modern architecture of Project Operations.
• Support for item consumption on product receipt and item reservations for projects in the modern architecture.
• Improvements to the expense management experiences on mobile for financial dimensions and team member experiences to visualize bookings and assignments, and manage them across different projects.
• Continued investment in migration from project management and accounting (PMA) to the modern architecture of Project Operations.
• Support for subscription billing in the modern architecture of Project Operations.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Project Operations 2026 release wave 1

Investment areas

Optimize Project Operations
In one application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams so they can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. Project Operations continues to invest in capabilities that improve usability, performance, and scale across key areas of the product, such as project planning, invoicing, time entry, and core transaction processing flows.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Project Operations below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

Get the most out of Project Operations