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Seamless Task Management with a Rotating Team
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has a multitude of layers that I believe really contribute to its success. The Project>Task>Subtask workflow has quickly become a vital key in my office, allowing a shifting staff (many of our staff are traveling at different times - our most regular workers are student employees, and even then their schedules are variable) to keep near-perfect track of planning processes throughout the year.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest complaints rest in a few quirks that are able to be gotten around but could be easier, the foremost being that there's no real way to track if a Task's subtasks are only half-finished without opening the task. The interface as a whole could be developed to be a bit sleeker and perhaps provide more info from the overview.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prior to utilizing Asana, we had archaic system built around Gmail tagging and Drive spreadsheets. Asana has made tracking and communicating within the office a million times more efficient, as well as easier.
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What do you like best about the product?
User interface is very friendly. Easy to navigate and laid out in a very organizational type of way.
What do you dislike about the product?
The reports section was not always accurate and did not lay out my tasks that I had completed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Long term project organization and assigning tasks to everyone on our team so there is no confusion about who needs to do what by a certain time.
Asana is one of the simplest task management softwares out there, yet it has extreme complexity.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is simple. But it allows you to go into more depth with custom fields and projects. Within a single project you can have multiple custom fields. Essentially, planning for a big event, website launch, office move, or anything else can be easily organized. And once this is done, task management for the week is done within minutes. We also use Scrum in Asana. I cannot go into depth here, but Scrum is a system for helping run your company.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana is very laggy and slow at times. This is due to the fact that Asana is one of the largest task management softwares out there, and they sometimes have outages (like 1% of the time). But, nonetheless, it would be nice to see the system create a completely native OSx and Application. This would blow me out of the water.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Planning at our company used to be cumbersome. Now we take a week and plan out the quarter. And we use a system called Sprints to plan every Monday for the entire week. Asana is flexible enough to incorporate these systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is the best task management software out there. It is flexible enough to fit into any industry.
Actually fun to use
What do you like best about the product?
The organizational structure of project tasks is to-the-point and helps you to easily plan work. The unique themes and fun animations that are prevalent throughout the app make it a joy to use rather than a chore. The tasks and their descriptions store history so you can track changes to project specs.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't really much to dislike about Asana. The application is easy to use and there isn't much you can't do with its current capabilities. One striking limitation when compared to a tool like JIRA is lack of full-fledged support for ticketing-like workflows (i.e., attributing tasks to application versions, attaching extra files, etc.).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps with the everyday problem of planning large projects/applications. You are essentially forced to break down projects into detailed task descriptions and provide points / rating for them. This simple rubric helps you to divide work and forecast time to completion.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a simple, easy-to-use project-planning application, Asana is a great first stop. It has a intuitive look and feel (shortcuts are a bit obscure) and you can quickly get started and onboard a whole team to get into using Asana.
Asana is my lifeblood
What do you like best about the product?
Asana keeps me accountable. For so long I struggled balancing simple to-do lists with more complex projects that require team collaboration and multiple step processes. Asana fixes that by having a super easy to use system that is good from the most basic reminders to the most complex team projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some basic features that I wish it had - a better ability to change project formats, and a more intuitive way to take advantage of premium features. I also feel like the dashboard has some great potential but is lacking in follow through and reporting capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest one is keeping our team on the same page. We’re always in the loop with what each other is working on and that makes it far easier to be effective in our efforts across departments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Trail oh and a sauna are the closest competitors that I can think of in the space. Try them both out, for your business you may find one is better than the other.
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What do you like best about the product?
2 things about Asana actually. First is the ability to create "project boards" and second the ability to collaborate through the system. It's very helpful to keep a record of all communication related to a project including attachments and images.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think that the reporting could be a little better. I wish that there was Gantt Chart capabilities since that's what our team is used to seeing for project management and keeping track of project progress.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping up with fairly complex projects with multiple stakeholders. For us as an e-commerce company selling a physical product, we use Asana "boards" or projects for all of our new product additions. Individuals from all of the functional areas of our company participate in products additions and Asana helps us make sure everything gets done.
A great task management tool.
What do you like best about the product?
After shopping around a bunch, Asana had the best interface for my needs. It was clean, simple to use, and very modern looking. The plentiful integrations also made Asana a great platform to branch out from. We integrated with Everhour to improve our time tracking.
What do you dislike about the product?
There really isn't much that I dont like in Asana, and the things that do come to mind are very "nit-picky" or small issues. I wish the left nav menu in the app was more streamlined. There is a lot of real estate devoted to headers or groups of reports/favorites/etc. that take up too much space, even when fully collaped. For exmaple, we don't use the favorites section, but collapsed it still takes up an inch and a half of left nav space.
Like I said, very nit-picky. The only other complaint is the lack of built in analysis tools for the projects. Asana exports to Google Docs, which is very helpful, but requires an intermediary step.
Like I said, very nit-picky. The only other complaint is the lack of built in analysis tools for the projects. Asana exports to Google Docs, which is very helpful, but requires an intermediary step.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed greater levels of transparency into our group for our management, and Asana gives us that.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Personally, I found using the built in template for deploying Asana helped greatly. It gave me a lot of pointers on how to get a successful deployment and how to get some traction with using Asana with my team. The built in templates are not just templates. They offer some good educational/training resources in there. Be on the lookout for little Easter eggs all over the place as well.
Found it!
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many different ways to keep organized for projects and day-to-day work. My note-taking, lists, and various paper to-do lists were not cutting it to keep me organized. I am not trained in MS Project, nor do I consider a lot of my work to be in heavy project management practices. Asana met me where I was at with my different kinds of work/projects, allowing me to stay organized, collaborate with others, and easily keep track of files, deadlines, notes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I suppose it would be nice to be able to make tasks private within a project. And, the license thing is a little funky to understand, but it's not too hard to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Asana, we can operate as a project team without others feeling like they are in a very formal setting. We get work done together. We get work done alone. It works for both. It's a common ground for 1:1 meetings, organizing our agendas and collecting thoughts throughout the week. The benefits have been exponential and all around the business--not something I would anticipate from a PM software.
New Timeline feature-perfect timing Asana
What do you like best about the product?
The first week of every quarter we have a strategy week. This feature has made it easier to plan out the whole quarter for our team!
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I haven't found anything to dislike about this feature-I'm looking forward to this for long-term projects to see how effective it is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides an at-a-glance view of what is happening now on a project and what's to come. It's easy to use and the layout is attractive and simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The direction Asana is heading is going to be extremely helpful for our team and increase our efficiency. They continue to add features that really work and we really need.
Love, LOVE this product!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the simplicity, yet efficiency of the product. It's user-friendly, easy to learn, easy to keep up with. I've used it on multiple projects with a couple of different teams. The ability to tie conversations to tasks and keep related items related is phenomenal. Being type A - I love the ability to check things off and see them disappear off the list. That's the best part. :)
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing - it's an excellent product. Great to work with and perfect for teams. Can't say there isn't really anything I don't like about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used it for project management - both for work and for personal. It's easy to collaborate with a team during a project, get feedback on items you submit or things you put in the list. The gantt chart add-in is also very nice and easy to use. The ability to tie in various programs make it very fluid to work with while developing. It's also good just my personal use. I can enable the app on my phone and keep up with my lists as I go. Doesn't seem to put too much on the phone either.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
PLAY with it. Explore the software when you first get it set up. there are so many little bells and whistles that you may miss out on some neat features if you don't. Also, check out the add-ins - some of them are extremely helpful and beneficial. Play with those as well - you can't hurt the software or "mess" anything up. Collaborate with others in it as much as you can. It's a flip from traditional correspondence but it's so much more efficient.
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