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Ease of Asana
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is very easy to use. You can have different teams and projects and also assign certain viewers to them. You assign tasks to which users will be responsible for them and then they receive an email and will input their progress for everyone to see. We used this for weekly and quarterly meetings, special long term projects, and anything else that needs collaboration with several people.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not a fan of the "consider updating your project" emails that I receive as an administrator. I use one of the same projects year round and just add to it every quarter but Asana sends me emails asking me to consider updating my task. I also don't like the new upgrade they did to the viewing page but it isn't difficult. I just liked the old one better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used this for our Traction L10 meetings and projects. We put the L10 itinerary on there with sub tasks. It helped us keep track of things we have had problems with and also things that we need to do to get things taken care of. With Asana everyone on the team can see what everyone is working on and they can communicate with each other.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a very easy way to help keep track of projects and tasks. It has made my life easier.
Team Assignments
What do you like best about the product?
I like how tasks are built up in to projects using multiple tiers, and I like how the tasks can be assigned to individual people with due dates.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think a GANTT-like project overview option would be useful for discussion with a team
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana really helped flesh an idea out from conception to reality; identifying what tasks will solve the overall project and issues and who will do each portion.
Asana
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Asana is being able to effectively assign projects within the team that I work with to get assignments done.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that I dislike about Asana was that it was a bit confusing to navigate as a first time user, but it became easier with continued use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Asana, my coworkers and I are solving problems that we face on a daily basis in our field or E-Learning.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great product!
Asana is a dream come true!
What do you like best about the product?
I can see tasks assigned to my team and get emails when they have added updates or completed tasks which keeps me informed in real time. I am not glued to an app constantly checking on the status of everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
The app isn't as easy to use as I would like for managing team lists. It is mainly focused on "my tasks" but I like to see what others have pending. You can see it but there is a lot of drill down to get there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everyone on my team knows that anything task related goes in here. It keeps things from falling off teh radar and we all know who did what. We rarely have anything fall off the radar these days. It allows for recurring tasks and has a beautiful and easy to read layout both in calendar form and task lists. I have real time updates from my team. It allows for an ongoing history of closed out tasks that I can refer in a very easy search method to view if need be. I keep copies of emails in some tasks so it is easy to print to PDF and tuck the correspondence of what had happened throughout the project in with any other documents. It is a life saver - no doubts about it. I prefer it over Slack (only used it briefly) as it is more task oriented, not all the chatter, and I can get email updates in real time that to keep me up to date without being glued to an app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just try it for a week and you will enjoy it.
4+ years of using, it's evolved nicely
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has all the features you'd want, but I've never felt overwhelmed or "lost" in the app. New feature releases seem to be folded in nicely as opposed to wide-scale change.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have any issues with Asana that would cause me to use it less, to be honest.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Staying organized is the biggest benefit, as we use it to track our weekly exec scrums.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a team of less than 50 (I've never used it in a larger team), I'd suggest checking out Asana if you have multi-function teams that collaborate on larger projects.
It's pretty easy to use (I don't think I ever got trained on it - I just started using it) and it doesn't overwhelm you like some PM solutions can.
It's pretty easy to use (I don't think I ever got trained on it - I just started using it) and it doesn't overwhelm you like some PM solutions can.
Good project management app for tasks
What do you like best about the product?
I often use the Kanban boards for our weekly team meetings
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not a true tool for project management compared to many others, but it is sufficient for basic task tracking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of tasks / to-dos and setting reminders to keep myself accountable to them
Project Management Heavaen
What do you like best about the product?
It allows me to have all the projects in one location and to use one email to move across the various business entities that I have.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that you must purchase 5 licenses in order to upgrade your plan. I have been using the software for a while but I don't need 5 licenses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time and Project management. I can have everything in one location and I can be more effective and efficient when working with my clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that you have written out your process flow in great detail. Because you will have to included additional integrations for things that are necessary for your specific needs.
Asana Has Brought More Transparency to Our Team
What do you like best about the product?
Instead of using a previous interface (another company), Asana's interface allows us to see where our candidates are and at what stage. Based on this, we no longer have to ping fellow recruiters or team leads to get updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when we categorize different folders I find it difficult to locate my candidates (as to which folder they are in). I would like to see a different search bar function that would precisely locate them for me when I type their name in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana to communicate with Hiring Managers and other recruiters as to whether an engineer would be a good fit for the team they hire for. The benefit is that we can see a thread on a specific candidate to see , in real time, what feedback is being given (or which feedback we are still waiting for) and overall we have more transparency and openness.
Great Communication and Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I love the checklist/task feature. It feels so good to write down all the tasks I need to complete, including the deadline and dependent tasks, then check it off.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don’t like how there aren’t automated categories for type of projects. Our team has a lot of different types of projects (billable, marketing, admin, etc) but we can’t add those kinds of qualifiers when creating a project to auto organize them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I like that our team can see everything each other is working on so we can stay in the loop on workloads, projects, etc. Before no one really knew what others were working on but now we see it laid out clearly.
Makes project planning easy
What do you like best about the product?
separate projects, personal tasks, deadline management
What do you dislike about the product?
Not to lack feedback, but I don't have any dislikes of Asana. It does what it does very well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I often have a hard time keeping track of and enumerating my to-dos for the day, week, etc. Also, I'll occasionally have a task that has an actionable item weeks or months down the road. With Asana, I can put it on my schedule well in advance, and the task will fall in line with my other tasks scheduled well in advance or otherwise.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good project and schedule management platform.
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