Thanks for your quick answers. I should have written in to check on this forum before spending time trying to find a progress-marking solution at the verse level in PT8.
I can appreciate how complicated it must be to develop a product for people who work in such a wide range of ways. I didn’t expect that features would be removed in the upgrade, but it isn’t the first time that I’ve found that I’ve been trying to use a tool in a way that it wasn’t intended. It seems that the Project Plan features of PT are intended mostly for managers and others who need progress reports for funders, etc. We had just begun using those features in PT7 for a few months within our small translation team because it was nice to quickly see which verse we had last worked on across the different books and stages in the status report.
It’s disappointing that we can’t track progress at the verse level anymore in PT8, but not something that we had yet grown to depend on. We used the note approach (that anon468618 mentions above) before we tried the Project Plan in PT7. To reproduce the comprehensive status report, I’ll probably make a custom note category for “Current Progress” that I can search for across all books in a notes window. Or go back to our spreadsheet chart, or add a field in a Trello table; something simple. I don’t know how much it will be worth for us to go through all the work of defining the scopes, dependencies, effort-level, etc of all the tasks in the project plan if we’re not using it to track our day-to-day work, though.
If the development team considers the level of granularity again at some point in the future, consider this a vote for verse-level tracking. 
Thanks for your good work.
