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Slow and steady wins the race
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how agile the platform is. I'm able to, very quickly, get a team working together on a shared deliverable, even if some participants are new to Asana. We can use boards, lists, and run reports to see our projects in different ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sub-tasks are a huge opportunity. It's unclear which tasks contain a sub-task. Tasks can be completed with no prompt indicating that sub-tasks remain to be completed. Sub-tasks don't appear in Timeline view. Sub-tasks don't inherit custom fields. Sub-tasks are only visible when viewing task details. They could be indented below a task in the Main pane.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana for project management (usually small to medium sized projects). We also use it to capture and communicate insights from our frontline teams to specialized support/project teams. We find it to be a great way to get everyone in the same tool for task visibility and accountability.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a great product, but the best part about it is the community and the support. The Community Forum is the best moderated forum I've ever experienced, but it's common for Ambassadors, Certified Pros, and Forum Champions to respond within minutes or hours. It's incredible!
Is this the right SaaS for my team?
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about asana is the simplicity of it all. Easy to navigate, solid notification options, and great for collaboration. Marking changes or providing updates, happen pretty instantly. This is key to keeping the team all on the same page and helpful when working remote and others are following along within asana. Took most of my team a couple of training sessions to become very comfortable in asana.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few areas where asana can improve. 1) Better migration options from other software. Telling someone about asana and then having to add disclaimers depending on where they are coming from isn't ideal. 2) Another is the limited customization options. More are being done with improvements, but as an example: using different types of number formats would be helpful. 3) the in between notifications. Currently feels like all or nothing users are okay with notifications, but the middle is unsure. They either end up getting too little or too much notifications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration, updating, and efficiency. These are a few of the problems asana has helped solve/improve.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a great tool and can be exactly what you are looking for. I good place to visit to find out if out if you will need to make workarounds is within their API documentation. Importing certain types of files links are not easily supported within asana. May need to create a more thorough transition plan in advance.
Asana has taught me how to prioritize and handle all of my tasks.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes everything visual and very collaborative. It is easy to work as a team, and to work across projects. It is a company-wide tool, any department can find it beneficial. It is very user friendly, with lots of training to go with it!
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of features and things happening. You really benefit from reviewing the training courses and making sure you fully understand what a feature is for to fully excel within Asana.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a small startup company, and we are in the midst of rolling out a support tool. At the moment, we are using Asana as a tool to track and log our support tickets.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go through the training guides! They have so much information and are hands on.
Best PMS we've used!
What do you like best about the product?
I like all the integrations that are available and the mobile app version. These were two very important factors for our business when determining which PMS to use. The visual appeal of Asana and ease of use were just a bonus.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that templates are only available with paid accounts and that it was complicated to set-up our company privately. I also really dislike the amount of hoops you need to go through in order to contact customer service. There is no way to reach an agent by phone and many of the chat reps are limited in how they can help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving our bandwidth issue and advanced scheduling of communications by using Asana. Having all of our daily work accounted for in one system has been immensely helpful to refer to during meetings with upper management as well as for annual reporting at year end.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare it to the other leading PMS and decide if Asana meets your musts list. To us, it was the one that hit all the checkmarks whereas the others all missed one or two areas.
Best platform to organize your to-dos!
What do you like best about the product?
Asana made project management and tasks easy to keep track of. I'm big on using board views to get clear timelines on projects we need to have done and it's awesome to track the steps the project/task has gone through before handing it off.
What do you dislike about the product?
My only complaint will have to be that Asana doesn't have their own time tracking. We use time tracking to make hours billable to our clients. We currently use Harvest which integrates well with Asana, but a native time tracking tool would make Asana a more complete tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Asana, we had trouble keeping track of progress on tasks especially ones that required feedback from various team members. With Asana, we are able to keep everything structured and makes comments tied to tasks so we don't have any missing pieces.
Project Management Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
I love all the integrations, it makes me feel like I can have a suite of tools in a central hub. It's easy to learn and navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a calendar feature in the Portfolios section, so you can see what tasks are do when for a selected amount of projects
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizational issues. Enabling process, and providing reference to all documentation for each project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give yourself some time and explore. Once you start using projects with Asana , you'll learn how to organize things better
Asana Makes Everything Better!
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite aspect of Asana is that I can be away from work but still be 100% up to speed on all projects!
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some tasks that require some manual workarounds, but nothing that is too taxing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me:
1. Understand what everyone is working on
2. Keep up to date on tasks
3. Keep everyone on the same page
1. Understand what everyone is working on
2. Keep up to date on tasks
3. Keep everyone on the same page
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start slow! Don't put everything in there at once. Find a system that works for you that you can scale with your team.
Game changer!
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has changed my entire business operation. With Asana I can be more collaborative and organized with my entire team in a way that allows us to stay highly organized and on schedule.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is virtually nothing that I dislike about Asana. Maybe the Asana team could add the ability to put a time on due dates but I usually just note that in the item description.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My teams communication and collaboration are so much more effective with Asana. We are killing project deadlines like never before! The biggest benefit is that Asana provides a project overview that was previously unclear using only GSuite.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it and you’ll love it!
Best project management solution for large teams
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has a beautiful UI that is very accessible and easy to learn. It is one of the most intuitive, full-featured project management apps out there. For my company I personally reviewed specs for dozens of leading, top-rated project management solutions. In the end there were only 2 or 3 that I could seriously consider, and of those Asana was the clear winner.
It supports sub-tasks, repeating tasks, start dates for tasks, attachments, discussions (with full text formatting), teams (groups with shared projects), interactive Gantt-style charts, calendar overviews, reusable and custom templates, a great mobile app, turning forwarded emails into tasks automatically, and much more. One of the important features for me was private projects in a team setup, and Asana includes that. It works with Google Drive, Dropbox, and other services. There are many custom integrations available.
It also has an impressive development roadmap. I am super excited about where this app is going, and I think the company behind really understands what project management is all about.
It supports sub-tasks, repeating tasks, start dates for tasks, attachments, discussions (with full text formatting), teams (groups with shared projects), interactive Gantt-style charts, calendar overviews, reusable and custom templates, a great mobile app, turning forwarded emails into tasks automatically, and much more. One of the important features for me was private projects in a team setup, and Asana includes that. It works with Google Drive, Dropbox, and other services. There are many custom integrations available.
It also has an impressive development roadmap. I am super excited about where this app is going, and I think the company behind really understands what project management is all about.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the more advanced features may require a subscription that is outside the budget of some small companies. However, it is free to try, and the basic features can be used indefinitely at no cost.
At the Premium level (below Business and Enterprise plans), the Gantt charts, which are the primary way to visual resource management at this plan level, are project-specific, rather than companywide.
At the Premium level (below Business and Enterprise plans), the Gantt charts, which are the primary way to visual resource management at this plan level, are project-specific, rather than companywide.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work for a mid-sized company with about 50 employees. We reached a point where managing projects collectively became a necessity. The old methods of endless email discussions and hand-written marker board notes was not cutting it anymore. Asana allowed us to connect discussions to the projects and tasks they belonged to, which is important when you have projects that span employee turnovers, and makes it easy for everyone to stay in the loop about the current status of every project. It also allowed us to track and prioritize projects, so the most important ones could move forward, and not merely the ones with the most vocal email discussions. The support for private projects and group (team) permissions was important too, because there are projects and tasks that include confidential or sensitive information that are unsuitable for being public to everyone in the company. We have many recurring projects, so support for templates and recurring tasks have eliminated a lot of tedious manual tracking.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a look at Asana's website, where you can find great videos and documentation that show how Asana can work for you.
I. Love. Asana.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana keeps my team organized and moving forward on projects. We have literally hundreds of projects going at any given time across different areas of our team, we would be absolutely lost without some sort of project management software, and Asana is second to none. I live out of the calendar view to plan out and organize my tasks. I love that one task can be organized into multiple projects to keep things organized and streamline across multiple teams. I love the unicorns that fly across my screen when I check off a task. I can't say enough great things about Asana!
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana can do SO MUCH, it can sometimes be hard to explain to new users who aren't already familiar with the software. It appears a lot more complicated than it is. I only recently discovered Asana Academy -- I wish those training resources were more available right from the start. Now, when new employees start, I tell them to watch some of the videos in Asana Academy to get the basics before we dive in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has streamlined our project workflow. We use it as our absolute source of truth for any project. All comments, documents, and updates having to do with that project are found in Asana -- which gives everyone on the team line of sight to every project with just a quick search.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is powerful and extremely customizable. It can do anything you want it to do, just give it time and give yourself time to get the hang of it. If you love Trello but wish Trello could do more, Asana is for you!
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