What do you like best about the product?

The organization, ability to assign task to others, and the liking and commenting features. Overall it's a really great organizational tool, although it does work better if everyone is using it consistently, otherwise things can get lost by people not checking their Asana and seeing what's been assigned to them.

What do you dislike about the product?

If some people are using only Asana for creating and assigning tasks to people, but some people don't use it as frequently, things can get lost in the shuffle. It's really nothing against Asana itself, more on how people us it. Although I would say their notification settings aren't great, it's pretty much either all (where you're getting emails all the time for every little thing) or nothing. This can feed into that problem, if you have your email notification off, you have to go actually check Asana, so if you don't you might miss stuff, and you can't just set the notifications to email when a new task is assigned.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping some projects and tasks better organized, and helping people view what's going on within a team.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Make sure your whole team is on board with implementing Asana for project assignment, otherwise stuff might slip through the cracks from people not checking it. Also, they have amazing walkthroughs for all sorts of stuff, so you can find the answer to pretty much any question pretty easily.

What do you like best about the product?

Asana is a website where you can easily manage a company's tasks. You can easily create work groups and add employees. Within those groups, you can create tasks for each person or groups of people, and those tasks, in turn, can be returned once completed or modified with tags to make it easier to locate the tasks. It is a very useful tool for documenting, for example, work done in a warehouse or a company with many departments that need to be in contact.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I like the least is that we depend on the internet; if it goes down, we can't access anything. There should be something local, so that if the connection is lost, at least you can see what you had until then. The searches are also not entirely well done; there are more fields they should include for searching, as there are things you can't easily search for.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the company where I work, there is a before and after since we have Asana... it hasn't been perfect. Before, there was a lot of disorder in the company, now with this website, we can pass tasks to each other, write modifications on them, and pass them among colleagues and likewise, pass them to other departments of the company. It's also good for my bosses, as they can have greater control over tasks and time.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

it is highly recommended

What do you like best about the product?

Has the most features than any software in its industry. Has plenty of options, and is easy enough to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is a huge bug where if you put to many projects in one group then the tasks within it will stop showing up for people.... randomly. It's an easy fix to create a new group, however there is no warning that the group is too full to accept additional projects, so there might be some time before anyone picks up on this. This has caused my company to miss deadlines in the past and is the main reason as soon as there is an alternative our company will drop Asana like a bad habit.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to assign out work and so other teams can see what projects members are working on.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If they fix that issue and there is still not a better alternative..... then yes I guess your stuck with it.

What do you like best about the product?

Asana is very good for collaborating with team members, and tracking which tasks need to be done. It is a good way to stay on top of what you should be doing at work, especially for projects with a lot of small tasks.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is no in-progress task status or "need help" task status for projects. It would be intuitive to have a way to share with your collaborators where you are at with your project, such as "in progress" or "roadblock" or anything with an icon instead of just "task" and "complete". That said, it is a good, basic communication tool for working on projects and holding each other accountable with deadlines.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Event management for fundraisers at our non-profit. It has helped us keep on track of what we need to be doing and what has yet to get done for the event, especially time-sensitive deadlines.

What do you like best about the product?

I like using asana because it's very attractive and simple to use. I like that I can use Lists or Boards to organize projects. Tasks are easy to create and keep track of. It's useful to see where changes have been made within projects.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't like that anyone can change tasks and that there are not different user permissions. I'd like to see some more capabilities with project tracking numbers. I haven't found any useful solutions to that.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana helps me keep my teams' projects organized and on time.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Asana is simple to use and seems to be adding new capabilities and improvements. I'd recommend the platform to users who have don't have too many tasks within projects. It takes a fair amount of time to keep asana organized and useful.

What do you like best about the product?

It has few flaws and they usually update it very occasionally.

The free version is very comprehensive and serves many users.

You can have the tool on any device that has a browser.

There is an application for smartphones and tablets.

It is used to store a huge amount of data, you can input millions of documents, millions of notes, millions of photographs.

The history is infinite, the trial version which is free, we have been using for more than 8 years and they have never notified us that it is a limited version.

What do you dislike about the product?

They are continuously notifying that there is an improved paid version.

At times, you lose the connection and can lose some work, there is no way to do a restoration.

It seems that at times it goes slow because you are on the free version, it's as if they are turning off the tap to make you switch to the paid version.

Technical support takes a long time to respond to questions.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

You manage to have many people connected in the tasks that are carried out.

The best part is the history it has; you can use the tool as a database for the entire company, reviewing records from 8 years ago without any issues.

It is useful for noting down any data.

You can upload unlimited files with the trial version.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Yes, it is a free tool that I recommend to anyone who is interested in keeping a file of tasks, data, and unlimited attachments.

What do you like best about the product?

Many web-based kanban/AGILE/swim-lane tools and project management tools in general are complex and difficult to learn. When I was presented the task of managaing a complex technical project with a team of 20+ manufacturing managers, team leads, and engineers, I knew I needed a simple tool that was visual, colorful, and inviting. After a lot of searching, I found Asana and I was very pleased. The click and drag UI with simple, clean, and colorful theme made it appealing to users and easy to train on. Even users with very little history with web-tools could go in and see what work was assigned to them and provide updates. This is a tool I will continue to use.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are some features I am not a fan of. For instance, the fact that a task can have only one assignee. However, Asana has an active forum environment and has responded to others with this issue. Their perspective makes sense - at the end of the day, you want ONE person ho can answer for a deliverable. "When everyone owns it, no one owns it." However, this is difficult when trying to structure layered teams.

Also, I was not a fan of the 3rd party integrations available and the lack of Gantt chart support. I ended up using Insta-Gantt.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Team synergy
- Work assignment tracking
- WBS
- Progress tracking

Better communication, more task/responsibility awareness, simple, short, concise, and more frequent communication intervals through comments on tasks and sub-tasks.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Spend time learning the features, setting up tags and favorites, and browse the forums. This is not only a simple tool to use, but is feature rich.

What do you like best about the product?

The projects are well organized and ASANA is user friendly. We can easily access the projects added on asana and can easily upload and attach documents as well. Asana is like a one stop shop where everything is really accessible. You don't need to find other platforms as everyhting could be in asana.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing that I dislike in using ASANA. Since I start using asana, there is no downside of it that I have found. And I have no issues encountered. It has been really a great help. And it has been one foundations of our success with regards to the projects we worked on.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asana has been used as our method of communication in taking over some projects with the clients. And it has been so easy for us because it is organized and easy to use. There are many benefits that I have experienced with asana. It has been a great help on managing projects, even though we have so many projects on going it has been easy because of the user friendly interface asana has.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I highly recommend asana to others. Most especially those people who are working in a group and working on many projects as well. Even though there are many project handlers, you can easily be on track as everything is really organized and it is really user friendly. The comments are also a great help as all the insights of the members or the handlers of the projects are being considered.

What do you like best about the product?

1) The user interface is one of the best I've experienced falling somewhere behind Monday and somewhere before Basecamp.

Asana's UI is so clean and attractive that you'll actually want to use it (unlike many other platforms that you dread using so much you start to wonder what was so wrong with managing projects via email.)

What do you dislike about the product?

1) This is seriously the hardest platform to learn. I've used (and tested) tons of other software including Teamwork, Wrike, Basecamp, Trello, Airtable, Monday, Samepage, Quip, etc. Asana has the most difficult learning curve to utilize the premium features to their potential. When you discover there is an "Asana Academy," onboarding consultations, premium training, live webinars, detailed guides and videos that can take up months of your time--you will want to give up. I don't know who has that much time on their hands to learn Asana and then train their team. It really shouldn't take that many resources to onboard a market like Asana's, they're not target at large enterprise corps.

2) Nothing on Asana is as intuitive as it looks. Functions you're accustomed to (e.g. press enter to submit) have been thrown out the window. Now pressing enter will only create a new task even though you're not trying to create a new task. You think you can edit your comment only to find out some comments can be edited and some can't. There are like a million calendars in Asana, some of them show subtasks, and other randomly don't show your subtasks. Most calendars don't have filtering making them useless. You will constantly ask yourself why is this or that taking up so much precious real estate. You will also miss Ctrl + z function because you can't undo your last actions in Asana. Be prepared to unlearn your internet habits.

3) All the features that you would expect Asana to have, they don't, including proper file management or even hyperlinks for external URLs. Also, be prepared to pay for many extra integrations just to bridge basic gaps like time tracking. You'll see that they always advise you to use an outside integration whenever you inquire about a feature or tool.

4) Support is lacking. No phone support. Email support sends unhelpful canned responses. The forum community feels like a handful of veterans (i.e. forum admins and developers trying to market their integrations) who are annoyed with newbs complaining about the software.

5) No roadmap. Users are constantly asking for features and basically hearing that Asana can't or won't implemented said features (time tracking for example). But Asana refuses to share a roadmap of the things they can/will implement. Hopefully, you'll like wherever they're going but you won't know until you get there.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project management, team collaboration, task management.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Software should make your life easier, not harder. You don't need the extra stress.

What do you like best about the product?

You have a lot of options for customize your planning, is a very good estructurated tool with a nice hierarchy for improvement your workflow and your capacity of work if all your members finish their task in time.

What do you dislike about the product?

We used both kind of accounts, free and premium, for a not very complete use, free account is more usefull than premium, with a limit of 5 members in your projects.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are trying to get a better workflow and our planning for get successful

Recommendations to others considering the product:

We are still implementing it, we have 2 kind of accounts, some free, some premium, we are comparing the use of free ones with premium ones, at this moment we are not very happy to pay an expensive service that offers a really difficult solution, creating it more problems coordinating all of us in Asana that in other platforms, is not a bad tool, but you must to test it before and know what can offer it to you, because if you pay before of it, maybe you will not be happy with this.