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Great project management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has been so helpful to my team. We create dashboards for our projects and we can invite people from outside teams to join our project dashboards and make contributions to the tasks. I like the ease with which you can create new projects, tasks, subtasks, attach and share files, and track tasks. Dashboards are customizable and intuitive to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
With the free version, you can't create dependent tasks that automatically change the due dates. You also can't create gantt charts. There are a lot of great features with the paid version that I wish were available for the free version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team is able to continuously stay up to date with all of our projects. MY boss is able to check in on all of our progress without needing to talk. We can also assign tasks throughout meetings, which solves the need to send follow up emails.
For those who can get past the tone of micromanagement
What do you like best about the product?
Its a great tool for transparency and virtual real time progress monitoring for those who's priority is to get the project done
What do you dislike about the product?
i personally love the transparency and the tool's support in holding myself accountable to a team project, but there seems to be a psychological aspect where folks feel like the person assigning the tasks and creating the skeleton is micromanaging. on the one hand, the more broken down the steps the more likely they will get tackled and completed but the more micromanagement is felt. vs. assigning roles and responsibilities...
There is also a huge hurdle for folks who do not consider themselves tech savvy to grasp how to use the tool
There is also a huge hurdle for folks who do not consider themselves tech savvy to grasp how to use the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
benefits of transparency and virtual/remote management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure the team buys into the goals of the project and the importance of using the tool to achieve it.
Have project management asana timelines and templates ready and roles clearly understood.
The tool can highlight gaps in lack of role clarity and decision making processes. Be prepared to address them.
Have project management asana timelines and templates ready and roles clearly understood.
The tool can highlight gaps in lack of role clarity and decision making processes. Be prepared to address them.
Very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how I can keep track of all my projects with my teams
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn’t anything I dislike. This is a very seamless product. My team loves it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing and tracking of projects and tasks
Easy, Effecient Tast Managemetn
What do you like best about the product?
Organization, flexibility, and collaboration. I can organize tasks on the fly or way in advance and only see what is relevant to my day right then. The software is flexible enough to fit a ton of custom solutions. I have taken advantage of this to make all kinds of flow boards, dynamic projects, and interactive to-do lists. Finally, the collaboration and communication on Asana has absolutely changed the way our whole company functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The iPhone and iPad app lacks just a few features that make it a little less intuitive. This by no means should prohibit anyone from becoming a user. However, if they would add the keyboard shortcuts and an archive all feature to the inbox it would be pretty close to perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We actually do all of our internal communication on Asana. No texts, emails, or products like Slack needed. We use it to approve drafts, share design files, and collaborate on documents. It really has become an all-in-one communication tool for us.
Good for managing an tracking tasks
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to assign team members specific tasks and the email reminders are helpful in making sure deadlines are met
What do you dislike about the product?
some of the dashboard functionality is kind of confusing. A cleaner interface would help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easy to track work and ensure deadlines are met
Asana fits the bill
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of Asana is that it's easy to manage my home and work life in one app. With easy mobile or web apps, I'm able to note the task for whatever comes up regardless of where I am.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although you can add tags to the favorites, I wish tag management was easier. Using GTD method, tags are essential. Also wish it would integrate with Harvest. Still need to use another task management system that does to manage tasks that require time tracking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because Asana has a good free option, I'm able to set up new teams for each client.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
With a little time and effort you will be able to set up Asana in a manner that works with your company's work flow. It might take a few tries but by trial and error as well as looking up what others are doing on YouTube, you can find a solution that works.
Wonderful software - Time consuming set up
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a wonderful CRM and project management system. I currently use Asana to manage clients everyday tasks as well as one time projects. One of the features I love is that I can customize the software as I need it and I don't have to upgrade to do so.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a huge learning curve when setting up Asana. I had to not only watch video tutorials but I had to contact support many times during the customization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Asana for project management and day to day client operations. One benefit is the use of the software with no cost associated.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are considering Asana, watch videos and tutorials before trying to set it up. The videos and tutorials will save you a lot of time.
Detailed Tracker
What do you like best about the product?
Due date reminders on email and tagging team
What do you dislike about the product?
List view topic descriptions are not always obvious
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping everyone on the same timeline and being notified
Takes a while to get used to, but works pretty well
What do you like best about the product?
The basic idea is simple: create checklists of tasks to be completed, and make sure that whoever needs to complete the tasks gets nudges and email reminders. People can collaborate, add comments and subtasks, tag each other, etc. You can use the project structure and comments almost any way you want to denote priority, request changes, keep track of issues, etc. The whole thing feels pretty flexible. It works well as a basic task management software.
A couple minor UX notes: It's nifty the way the text in task titles and descriptions automatically saves and updates on other users' screens real-time! (Plus, they have little themes complete with animated snowflakes for winter, which is pretty delightful.) They seem to be pushing in a direction of making things cleaner, more modern, and more robust, which is great.
A couple minor UX notes: It's nifty the way the text in task titles and descriptions automatically saves and updates on other users' screens real-time! (Plus, they have little themes complete with animated snowflakes for winter, which is pretty delightful.) They seem to be pushing in a direction of making things cleaner, more modern, and more robust, which is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I first started using Asana, it was not really clear to me where I should go and how I should use it at all. I guess I missed their onboarding flows somehow. It seemed to me that I was looking at a bunch of projects that didn't involve me, and struggling to find my own tasks. I tended to just search for phrases I remembered from particular projects to land there, or bookmark the specific page, or ask someone to remind me where it was and send a link, because navigation felt really weird.
However, after a little poking around for a year and a half, I've gradually come to understand it better. I prefer Leankit for most projects, but Asana is helpful for a meeting agenda or some basic task that I'm likely to forget to do if I'm not nudged and bugged about it.
At the same time, nudging and bugging about tasks can be achieved a hundred other ways. Slack has a little bot that will remind you about something on the day and time you choose and let you mark it as done when it's done, for example. There are probably loads of other checklist apps. And sometimes I still find myself using a good old-fashioned pen and paper, because sometimes that's the best way to clear my head. Asana strikes me as overkill.
I'll admit I don't know all its features well, but I haven't found a pressing need or desire to get to know its features well. They appear to have some reporting, but when I click into it, it just looks like a list of the tasks I've recently completed, tasks I've assigned to others and whether they are complete, etc. rather than any kind of data on what percentage of tasks are completed or how long it takes, so the reports don't seem very robust or helpful at the moment... but at the same time, I have no need for such reports, so I kind of don't know where Asana fits into the overall picture and to what degree I'm really supposed to use it.
However, after a little poking around for a year and a half, I've gradually come to understand it better. I prefer Leankit for most projects, but Asana is helpful for a meeting agenda or some basic task that I'm likely to forget to do if I'm not nudged and bugged about it.
At the same time, nudging and bugging about tasks can be achieved a hundred other ways. Slack has a little bot that will remind you about something on the day and time you choose and let you mark it as done when it's done, for example. There are probably loads of other checklist apps. And sometimes I still find myself using a good old-fashioned pen and paper, because sometimes that's the best way to clear my head. Asana strikes me as overkill.
I'll admit I don't know all its features well, but I haven't found a pressing need or desire to get to know its features well. They appear to have some reporting, but when I click into it, it just looks like a list of the tasks I've recently completed, tasks I've assigned to others and whether they are complete, etc. rather than any kind of data on what percentage of tasks are completed or how long it takes, so the reports don't seem very robust or helpful at the moment... but at the same time, I have no need for such reports, so I kind of don't know where Asana fits into the overall picture and to what degree I'm really supposed to use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps a manager make sure everyone on the team has completed a task and generally keeps track of stuff that mutiple people need to work on and discuss in a way that a simple notepad or text file won't. It works for actual tasks to be done as well as items to discuss, and it's pretty flexible about the structure of your projects and tasks. Without it, I wouldn't ever necessarily miss most of the features, but I would probably think, "I need a virtual checklist of some sort."
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend taking some time to actually get onboarded to the tool, unlike me. It will probably seem better to you that way. I think Asana is also improving their navigation and adding better features all the time, so I plan to keep using it and learning more about it, and I recommend others do the same if they need such a tool. Still, if you're trying to go the lean/agile route and focus on chunks of value rather than tasks, Asana may not help you much. As far as I can tell, Asana is to be used more the way you would use a to-do list to avoid forgetting to do a bunch of little things, but you can share it with others and make sure they do their parts too.
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What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate the Interface of Asana. It´s very friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I don´t dislike anything of it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana help us to prioritize our time so we can do more tasks in less time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should use Asana ASAP. It´s really great and functional.
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