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Asana Review
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a current list of tasks that are complete and incomplete. What I love is that it is capable of sharing the list/tasks with others and they see visibility on the project as well. Also, members of the project can add tasks as needed as well and then it notifies others, even if it's assigned to another member.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it would sync with my outlook calendar. Currently, it added in another calendar and is separate. It would be helpful if it synced in one place vs having calendars overlapped to see all the items due. Other than that, Asana has really great features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to get every individual to switch over to this task manager has been a challenge only because they're use to what they've been using. Once they've moved over, it has helped us in managing a project and making sure we see it all in one place. At times, we've added the customer as well, which then gives the client visibility on how we're doing as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great program for those wanting to share tasks/projects with internal AND external individuals.
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Great for working with a team
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has lots of options and features for tracking tasks and collaborating with a team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes Asana isn't as intuitive to use and you can click around and create a bit of a mess in your profile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to keep track of one-time or recurring tasks and get status updates from members of my team or another department.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great product, even the free versions helps in your work. The paid version obviously comes with more bells and whistles, but you don't need that until you have a decent amount of people you'd like to collaborate with.
The most powerful task list
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a tool that is open and powerful and lets you use it how you want to use it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The personal workspace isn't treated the same as other workspace, it has limited options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My marketing team tracks all of our projects and tasks in Asana. It allows us to communicate back and forth without crazy email chains.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Play around with it. Don't be afraid to break things or try new organizational structures out.
Amazing for individual use and for team use
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can add tasks from my phone or from my computer. I love that I can create tags for all of my projects and easily focus on work based on tags or workspaces and projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a place to catalog all of my tags. I tend to forget what some of the tags were that I used and it would be nice to have a catalog of them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My entire team uses Asana to track our publication calendar. We would have so many emails and mail pieces dropping all the time that Asana helped us space out publications so that we weren't creating fatigue for our constituents. It also has helped us realize that we are very email heavy at the beginning of the month and not towards the end of the month. We were able to space out our publications and be more strategic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think the tags are the best part about this program. We are able to tag projects based on emails, phone or mail solicitations but we can also tag which quarters they dropped, who the target market is and if they were for an event or solicitation. Then when it comes time to focus on a certain area we can just click on a tag and pull that up. For example- what do we have comming up in Quarter 2? Click it and there are all the tasks.
Absolutely Love Asana
What do you like best about the product?
I love the visibility that Asana gives our Stakeholders. Through using Asana we've taken what used to be 3-4 hour meetings and trimmed them down to 30 minute meetings!
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that they don't have a solid Windows Phone app is the only thing that i would say that i dislike about Asana. Considering the tools that Microsoft provides to easily make apps that bridge all 3 platforms, i don't know why people continue to treat us Windows Phone users like the black sheep!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Integration was easily implemented. Ability to associate tasks with one another while keeping them organized by area of concern, while still providing great visibility and notification of progress has been life changing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely give Asana a shot if you're at all unhappy with your current task software
Excellent task tool for broad, cross-functional teams
What do you like best about the product?
One of Asana's best qualities was the ability to cross-list tasks and projects across many different groups and individuals. It recognizes the cross-functional nature of modern work and allows you to label or tag projects as many ways as you want to get work properly sorted. This allowed us to use the tool for both things like our release planning but also content editorial calendar and have those projects intersect where appropriate.
What do you dislike about the product?
My graphic designers had some issues with it because we had to link everything out to Dropbox for graphics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I loved the dependency management and the ability to cross-link through multiple groups at the company. This allowed project managers to get a huge at-a-glance view of their projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a trial period and certainly take advantage of that.
Good all around team management
What do you like best about the product?
The fact the no features are disabled for small teams. That makes it perfect for a startup, who is looking for the innovative features, and is a good candidate to scale up to the larger paid account.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a dislike per se but my team members are reporting that the use of the software is not fun. Asana has not cracked the problem of "burdening" feeling when using these task management apps. It feel like a chore to have to report everything after doing it.
True, that the ability to communicate within the app is very helpful to that effect, but it is still not ideal.
True, that the ability to communicate within the app is very helpful to that effect, but it is still not ideal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to manage day to day activities and to allow visibility within the team.
The main benefit is visibility and the ability to plan ahead and track the past. We are not using Asana forinternal communication in an optimal way, i.e. all comm is not done via the app.
The main benefit is visibility and the ability to plan ahead and track the past. We are not using Asana forinternal communication in an optimal way, i.e. all comm is not done via the app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try to have ALL your communications recorded in the app i.e. cc the relevant tasks in all relevant mails.
Great for use across multiple teams
What do you like best about the product?
Two main things that I like:
- the ability for tasks to be assigned to multiple projects or boards, this helps when we want to draft out a quarterly plan and then assign the individual items or subtasks to team boards
- the new boards feature! It doesn't have all that Trello brings but is good enough for us. Plus we get a list view, which is much easier for tracking multiple items
Of course, this would be for moot if it didn't handle the basics of task management well, which it does!
- the ability for tasks to be assigned to multiple projects or boards, this helps when we want to draft out a quarterly plan and then assign the individual items or subtasks to team boards
- the new boards feature! It doesn't have all that Trello brings but is good enough for us. Plus we get a list view, which is much easier for tracking multiple items
Of course, this would be for moot if it didn't handle the basics of task management well, which it does!
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a little more complex than a simple task list, and I could see it becoming a beast to manage if there are hundreds of people on it. That said I think most software would struggle with that in some form or other, and this is a good pick.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of our quarterly initiatives together with the daily tasks
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What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and segmenting the project individually are the best things about asana, i personally tried most of the softwares which are available in the market I feeling nothing is equal to Asana
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing can be team based instead of user based which makes it more expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management we have multiple projects running into the company so asana plays the role of tracking and knowing what exactly happens
Good basic tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like that they are constantly adding features and making things more intuitive to find. In the very beginning, they did not even have bolding, italics within the description fields. It has come a long way since then and made it easier to track project status. The look and feel keeps it fun and fresh as well. The ability to "heart" feed updates and tasks completions is a nice way for the team to encourage one another.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I most dislike is the difficulty of exporting and moving entire projects. You can move tasks around within projects but if you want to export an entire one, or move it between your shared and personal projects, you have to use other work-arounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has been my solution for tracking the status of simultaneous projects. Since Asana allows you to drill down within tasks to keep track of subtasks, it allows you to kept all the smaller detailed tasks organized. With different people working on different parts of the project, it is helpful that Asana allows you to customize the permissions within projects, even down to only making certain subtasks within a project viewable to certain groups. It also makes it easy to keep track of project status and completion visually through tagging with different colors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A tool that has the basics for collaboration and project management.
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