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Simple and Effective Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
Easy communication with co-workers, task management that is simple even for the most disorganized mind. It is easy to invite new collaborators. Fits perfect into nearly every workflow. Can self-assign tasks or receive task assignments. Love the ability to upload files, which is so helpful for working remotely. Ultimately Asana can be an all-in-one shop for maintaining relationships with contract workers, volunteers, even vendors. Of course, the fact that it is free is any amazing bonus as well! It is also very helpful as a contractor to be able to link different accounts.
What do you dislike about the product?
The email settings are not as customizable as some people would prefer, and can be a bit clunky. The workflow can tend to get a bit cluttered without diligent upkeep. Wish there was more ability to copy old project templates to new ones. I find I spend a lot of time manually entering tasks that could probably be automated on another platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communication between people in different departments and roles. It's easy to stay on task personally, and to know when other teams are on task. Creates a healthy culture of accountability that benefits everyone. In fact, we went away from Asana for a while, and now we are coming back. It is unrivaled by any other project management system I have used, and is definitely better than no project management system at all.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try, there is nothing to lose since it is free!
A decent tool for project management
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a solid tool for managing multiple projects in an organization with multiple people. You can easily break up projects into tasks and assign those out to whomever needs to run with them.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't seem super great if you are running development projects. We run a scrum process and it doesn't do a great job of providing a clean board to see everyone on the team's progress easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed us to be more organized and keep communication around different projects and tasks organized. It also makes it easy to see who is responsible for what.
Good software for project management
What do you like best about the product?
I love being able to check off items as I go. Additionally, I can see all of my tasks all together in one place, which helps me plan out my time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I also use monday.com (used to be dapulse), which allows you to assign priority to tasks and generally allows you to add more details that you can see up front. So in comparison, Asana is a little bit shallow in features (though I'm pretty sure I use the free version of Asana, there may be more features in paid versions).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana for project management and task tracking. Primarily, we use it to track smaller tasks that simply need to be checked off as they go. It helps keep us organized and keep us from forgetting to do things.
Significantly improved product
What do you like best about the product?
It's really easy to track all my projects, goals, and tasks in a single location.
What do you dislike about the product?
I used Asana many years ago, and wasn't thrilled. However, I gave it another chance and significant improvements have been made. I can now add sub tasks and documents to the projects. My goals are in there and they are trackable. However, I'd really like to be able to search for other related items in an easier way for cross team collaboration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management for complex projects.
Great for Projects
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to manage my project as well as have the ability to task my colleagues with things that might help me.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel like there is a little bit of learning curve to really utilize Asana to it's utmost ability
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeps various operational challenges in mind and helps me move forward with things that could be seen as extraneous instead of concentrating on putting out fires. It allows me to attain the big picture items instead of getting bogged down in the day-to-day
Recommendations to others considering the product:
if you get bogged down in the day-to day and need a way to keep moving on the big items. this is it!
Perfect for agile teams and and small groups who need to keep track of project tasks and status
What do you like best about the product?
Asana have a very easy to use web interface and is easy to setup, organize, assign, and comment on tasks. The built-in communications tools are top notch and keep each individual conversation targeted and moving. I also like how responsive the Asana developers are in bringing new features and improvements to the app.
What do you dislike about the product?
The mobile app on Android needs improvement with UI. Unlike the web interface, I am constantly trying to figure out what to do next on the mobile app and have accidently marked tasks as done more often than intended due to some confusion on when to swipe to a new screen and when a swipe marks tasks as done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bringing insiders and outsiders in on projects and keeping everyone apprised of status and tasks remaining to complete a project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana seems to be a great fit for teams looking for agile or GTD development structures. If a traditional PM software with dependencies and waterfalls is required, this is probably not the app for you.
Great Reporting, UX Needs Work
What do you like best about the product?
We switched to Asana from Basecamp because we found the reporting and prioritization rather lacking in the latter. Asana has much better reporting tools for managers and the ability to prioritize tasks and projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
While we loved the collaborative tools and the user interface of Basecamp – it was easy to use every day, all day – the interface of Asana is still kind of a mess. Asana came from the minds of some former Facebook employees and there are some elements that will seem/look similar. However, commenting or having conversations, especially on tasks is horrible. Comments are not threaded (you can't reply specifically to a comment) and threads get truncated after only a few lines so you may login to find you've missed dozens of comments which have all been collapsed. We've moved to Slack for our back and forths, but giving creative direction in Asana is a chore.
Additionally the "Lab" elements you can enable (such as covering your screen with tabby cats or getting a flying unicorn for completing a task) are cute, but hardly useful. I wish they'd focus on cleaning up the UI.
Additionally the "Lab" elements you can enable (such as covering your screen with tabby cats or getting a flying unicorn for completing a task) are cute, but hardly useful. I wish they'd focus on cleaning up the UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are definitely are seeing reporting improvements, but I wouldn't say anyone on our team is in love with the platform.
Basic Team Task Management Software
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is helpful for managing tasks with our student staff in the office. It has a sleek interface and has an app that makes it useful for on the go work as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a limit for the number of people you can use for free and the cost to add additional people is a bit much for a small organization. We are still working to get everyone in the office regularly integrated into the system. Once we have successfully done that we will evaluate whether the cost is truly worth it to pay.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We began using Asana in order to find a way to effectively communicate with a staff of work-study students who are often not all in the office at the same time and who are also not always in the office at the same time as their direct supervisors. This program has allowed us to create teams where the professional staff member can assign tasks to their student workers and, when the teams aren't in the office at the same time they can even communicate back and forth via the comments. The calendar option is also useful but we have not utilized it as much.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is great task management for small offices. The limit on users is the only thing to consider. However, we have been able to create teams and follow up on tasks within our individual teams that allow for performance evaluation and task management as well.
This is best for organizing and monitoring projects.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is an opportunity to eliminate chaos and organize the workflow in order to optimize it. The service has excellent design and functionality and, at the same time, easy to use. I like the function of organizing projects for each participant and for the team as a whole. This helps to assess the pace and dynamics of the project. And also makes our communications within the team easier and more efficient. I see Asana's great potential.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any bad problems with this platform. Actually, I found that software useful and understandable for all working team.
This is not a minus, but my wish: I would like to be able to monitor and evaluate the contribution of each participant to a particular project.
This is not a minus, but my wish: I would like to be able to monitor and evaluate the contribution of each participant to a particular project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Asana was very effective for our team. It is an ideal service precisely for collective cooperation. We can prescribe tasks, set dates and deadlines, comment something, and much more. I also use this service for personal purposes. Notifications about the timing of my tasks, allows me to be more organized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a need to control the performance of tasks assigned by your team, then Asana will be very useful. Because it is the best tool for organizing projects, setting tasks and controlling the entire work process. The service is easy to use and helps to establish communication within the team.
I recommend Asana for both business and personal use.
I recommend Asana for both business and personal use.
Asana is Awesome
What do you like best about the product?
Asana does an incredible job of providing clear tasks and deadlines to a complex team that covers a multitude of projects. Asana also has a great commenting function, so that everyone in the team can discuss each project, assignment, and subtask. Asana keeps everyone in the loop and moving forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be quite honest, Asana does everything that I could want. The only slight change I would make is to provide even more sorting options and criteria for tasks, people, and projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking all projects to ensure that nothing slips through the cracks. Clear deadlines help assignments get completed on time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are struggling to find a software that seamlessly tracks all projects and makes sure everything gets done in a timely manner, then Asana is the product for you.
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