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Asana - a bit complicated, but does a good job
What do you like best about the product?
It is used as a task management and project management tool. Its easy integration with the Gantt charts made it very suitable for the needs of our company. Create tasks, assign them to different people, set deadlines, download files, discuss discussions on each thread.
What do you dislike about the product?
Adding options to chat on the platform would be great.
This is very difficult, and in order to use all the specific functions, everyone must follow all the textbooks, which requires a lot of time.
In most cases, it's difficult for me to find what I'm looking for, because there are sections, subsections, project names, etc.
This is very difficult, and in order to use all the specific functions, everyone must follow all the textbooks, which requires a lot of time.
In most cases, it's difficult for me to find what I'm looking for, because there are sections, subsections, project names, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used as a task management and project management tool. His easy integration with the Gantt charts contributed to his meeting the needs of our company. Creating tasks, assigning them to different people, setting deadlines, downloading files, leading discussions on each thread are just some of the features that the platform offers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is well suited if the company is ready to organize training for all employees so that they can use all the functions of the platform. If you need a simple task management tool, Asana is not suitable, because it is too complex.
Best free tool for task management for team members
What do you like best about the product?
I like asana as is its free for a small team, we can assign task to team and they will get notification. Once task is completed we can get reports and all. We can add comments for progress of task and timeline for team members to do project task.
What do you dislike about the product?
user interface was little heavy ( which was taking time to load ) but its been taken care in new version. Now everything is good so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are managing tasks for team, progress of project work and requirement change can be commented on task. Checking reports of project task and team performance, time taken for a perticular task etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its good tool for small business and small team to manage team work and individual team members task for perticular project. You can have multiple project and add/assign tasks to team members accordigly.
A Great Collaboration Project Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Asana lets you build a full picture of your tasks and by adding some in-house rules like making sure those tasks MUST fall under a target project it ensures all those tasks are on point, focused and will help move the needle.
If I find myself working on a set of tasks that do not fall under a target project, I can throw them into a hidden "drawing board" project to review and refine later when we're investigating new ideas.
If I find myself working on a set of tasks that do not fall under a target project, I can throw them into a hidden "drawing board" project to review and refine later when we're investigating new ideas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana offers a lot of powerful tools of which one is the different views you can use to organise your projects. Asana doesn't currently support switching between board view and list view which is a shame as people work best in different ways. This has a knock on effect; if you create a project and add tasks but realise the project would suit the view you didn't choose, you need to recreate the entire board including all the tasks you already created. This has happened to me a few times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a multi-faceted organisation with many parts making up the whole. We work on key projects aimed at improving our services and these projects often span several departments. Asana helps us by looping in relevant people on projects whilst maintaining the department structure.
Asana also provides full visibility on what people are working on, so you can monitor pace and offer help if things slow down anywhere.
Asana also provides full visibility on what people are working on, so you can monitor pace and offer help if things slow down anywhere.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend setting up internal conventions that people must adhere to and create templates for task requests. The danger with using these kinds of tools is how easy it is to create tasks but forget the assignee has no context/knowledge of that task.
The most flexible project management software
What do you like best about the product?
Asana was the first PM software that I've used. But, after researching and getting to know other tools I abandoned Asana. At that time Asana was good, but not great. Since them I used Trello, Redbooth, Wrike and other tools. Then, in 2016, I decided to give Asana another chance. And I was surprised to see that there were many new functions and A LOT of improvement in the basic features. Nowadays, I think Asana is the best, most complete and most flexible PM software that I've ever used.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its time to put more formatting options for the description and comments areas (Markdown would be great). For newcommers and people that are not used to work with PMs, the interface may be a little overwhelming when compared with other PMs softwares.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management, tasks organization and prioritization, team communication and time tracking trough Everhour (integration)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think Asana is the best option for "task first" mindsets. The features that it gives the user for breaking tasks in smaller tasks and prioritizing your work, as you get it done, are the very core of this system. For project overviews and complex tasks workflows, maybe other tools are a better fit.
Even the free version is great!
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to not only assign tasks from the platform, but also email tasks directly to the platform or set up zapier tasks to create tasks in the system. The calendar feature is awesome and the platform is so easy to use. It gives the ability to both create checklists of tasks or a post on a board to track and organize tasks - so you can modify your management to however your employees work best. Plus, you can set vacation time on your account so you aren't assigned a due date for when you'll be out of office - brilliant!
What do you dislike about the product?
That there are a lot of cool features I miss out on because we don't want to pay to upgrade to Premium. For the free version, you really get to do a lot. We don't have access to timelines, templates and priority settings but if we upgraded, Asana would definitely prove to be that much more powerful for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing our major projects into manageable chunks. Getting our team on the same page and managing workloads and timelines properly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a large team that needs to organize tasks, definitely go with Asana. It's so easy to use and it's very inexpensive. Even the free version helps us take care of everything we need!
Asana Review
What do you like best about the product?
It makes my life, and that of my team, easier with the ability to keep all of our individual and group tasks and projects in one place and easy to manage. It is very user friendly and keeps us all on the same page.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this point, there is not much I dislike about Asana in it's web form. The app could use some improvement, as it seems slightly less user friendly and could use some offline support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were having issues with communication across departments, which was causing issues. With the help of Asana, our communication as an organization is improving, as we are able to assign tasks to those in other departments and are able to are able to work together better on moving toward success in our projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great product for team project collaboration, brainstorming, and personal task lists.
Asana Boosts Accountability and Productivity
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to customize it to fit how your organization works. I also think the training, both in terms of video tutorials and live webinars, is incredibly helpful. These resources also help increase buy-in from new users being asked to integrate Asana into their workflow. Asana is extremely powerful and, as you get deeper into it, it can provide a whole host of integrated solutions for project management. That said, none of the "bells and whistles" are required to get started. It can be used in its most basic level, which is extremely intuitive, and still have a huge impact on order and oversignt.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. Possibly the limitations on adding outside contractors without buying additional licenses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have dramatically increased accountability and project management since adopting Asana. In addition, we have eliminated a lot of pointless emails by having all communication live within a task or project. This has also reduced the number of meetings we need to have to get everyone "on the same page."
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it and be sure to use the training resources to get others on board. Side note: your site won't let me upload the screenshot to confirm so you can download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4wrqg7bcr8n818/asana.jpg?dl=0
Great product - a bit too robust for our needs
What do you like best about the product?
I liked how easy it was to set things up. It was fairly intuitive to set up. Its main features are pretty good. They are trying to set up a KanBan board which it's quite up to snuff, but their core product is solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lot of information that you can put on each task within the projects, but you cannot decide which pieces of information you can display on the task list view. In their attempt to keep things "Clean and simple" they force you to drill down deeper to see the info you really want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was using it mostly for task management. I work on many small projects, nothing big enough to deserve a gant chart, but there are many multi-day projects that can easily get disorganized and lost.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would stick with their core products for now. They are moving into creating Kan Ban style project management - it's still a little clunky, but I'm sure they will make it as good as the rest of their product. They give you quite a bit of functionality with their Free, not time limit offer, it's an easy way to test it and see how it works and if it works for your team. Set up it fairly quick and intuitive.
Productive, Intuitive, and Easy
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite part of Asana is the many different views that you can see your "tasks". The feature that I like the most would be the calendar view because you are able to see each departments to-do's and when they are planning and when they will be done. This really comes in handy when you are waiting on others work, for your work to continue.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that the checked tasks on lists go away. I wish they would stay so you can see what you have accomplished. I realize this is a personal preference and others may not feel the same way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Productivity, mapping out our quarters and social strategy planning.
Our productivity has increased exponentially, as well as our plans for the future or even new ideas. New ideas sometimes come and they would be brilliant but for a later time. Asana lets us house those ideas in certain categories so that we are able to revisit them when the time is right. Our social strategy has been affected greatly, as well. We use Asana to map out and schedule all of the content related posts and can stay ahead of our social game.
Our productivity has increased exponentially, as well as our plans for the future or even new ideas. New ideas sometimes come and they would be brilliant but for a later time. Asana lets us house those ideas in certain categories so that we are able to revisit them when the time is right. Our social strategy has been affected greatly, as well. We use Asana to map out and schedule all of the content related posts and can stay ahead of our social game.
Asana keeps teams organzied
What do you like best about the product?
Asana allows teams to stay organized, and for individual progress to be tracked. I love knowing exactly what is coming up, and the interconnectedness of seeing my team members progress on prerequisite items so I can prepare for a task to arrive in my queue.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana has a variety of helpful options, like sub tasks and follow up tasks, but these are hard to access and not as visually intuitive. I would also prefer tasks assigned to multiple people to stay and individual task, not split into multiple tasks, each with an individual name - or to at least choose an option. Some tasks are truly collaborative, not just repeated.
On mobile, Asana can be difficult to navigate. Because it has so many features, they are crowded together or buried in the app, or eliminated all together (such as options for sorting our how tasks are viewed).
On mobile, Asana can be difficult to navigate. Because it has so many features, they are crowded together or buried in the app, or eliminated all together (such as options for sorting our how tasks are viewed).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving the business problem of separate yet interconnected teams in a small business. I don’t want my tasks to be on a giant list with everyone else, yet I still need to be able to assign things to them and them to me, while taking into account items everyone is already working on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a perfect tool to integrate multiple teams into the tasks of achieving overall goals, yet still not sacrificing details. Use the features so see what your part is in the larger picture, or making sure your team is progressing towards the larger goal. The mobile app extends the versatility of the platform, though it does have some navigation concerns.
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