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Best project management app for free
What do you like best about the product?
Great user interface, especially on the desktop. Asana definitely a much more user friendly experience than some of it's competitors, like Trello and Teamwork.
The features includes tasks, an inbox, a calendar (only on desktop), and conversations (which function more as a commenting system on a particular topic).
Lastly, there is a desktop application (versus going to asana.com to login and make that a browser window). The app works great but it was a paid app unlike being free on a smartphone.
The features includes tasks, an inbox, a calendar (only on desktop), and conversations (which function more as a commenting system on a particular topic).
Lastly, there is a desktop application (versus going to asana.com to login and make that a browser window). The app works great but it was a paid app unlike being free on a smartphone.
What do you dislike about the product?
No live chat feature. What is available is "conversations," which functions more like a comment feed on a topic -- which this is not exactly the most user friendly way to organize comments, in my opinion.
In addition to disorganization comment feeds, I'd like to see better organization of the tasks and inbox. Perhaps filters, tags, categories, or even just ability to minimize what I don't want to view so that it's not simply a continuous scroll all the way down the page to view a task or inbox message at the bottom.
I dislike that the calendar is only available on the desktop version as it would be nice to be able to see the monthly or weekly view from the mobile app.
In addition to disorganization comment feeds, I'd like to see better organization of the tasks and inbox. Perhaps filters, tags, categories, or even just ability to minimize what I don't want to view so that it's not simply a continuous scroll all the way down the page to view a task or inbox message at the bottom.
I dislike that the calendar is only available on the desktop version as it would be nice to be able to see the monthly or weekly view from the mobile app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A separate location where our small team can keep organized without clogging up emails and configuring different Dropbox/Box/Evernote accounts. It is such a wonderful way to streamline behind-the-scene business activity.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the desktop version for the calendar.
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Solar Holler Asana
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility and ease of creating tasks; the ease of reordering; the ability to share with teammates and have ongoing conversations.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it were easier to use Asana as a CRM with set fields. Ideally these would not just be drop downs, but also formula-based fields for auto-calculations. I would also love to see different views and visualizations of the data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Right now, we're using it as a free-form tool for tracking leads through a pipeline. It's so nice being able to see all the projects at a glance. Being able to attach documents to the task is an excellent way of keeping track of info.
Great for Teams and Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
You are able to assign tasks to yourself, as well as colleagues within a group, or other departments. You have to ability to to customize you task list view, or view it in a per-determined display. I like that you can have a team calendar, as well as a team chat section.
What do you dislike about the product?
Whereas you can customize the display, sometimes colleagues don't utilize the tools settings and can be less detailed oriented then you are, so tasks will not appear in the same format.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team management, Task management. We are able to work across departments and achieve team goals in a more timely manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for teams both small and large, but be sure that you train your team on how you see it best fit for your company to utilize the system. It will be a very valuable tool if you can get everyone on board!
Installation Management
What do you like best about the product?
I like being able to assign tasks to different people within individual projects. I personally operate very well with postits and so I feel like Asana allows for me to make virtual postits that I can share with others.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not yet figured out how to easily set things to not receive so many emails. Also, I think the default is only seeing the tasks remaining (unchecked) but I'd probably like to see all of the items, checked or unchecked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It basically replaces the need for disparate checklists and dozens of post its. It has minimized out need for a lot of paperwork. I also like that I can access my work when I'm not at work.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is incredibly user friendly.
Very good project management
What do you like best about the product?
From organization to teams to project, Asana does a good job of organizing a project. My absolute favorite aspect is the custom fields. However, keep in mind, you only get custom fields when you pay the annual cost for Asana. It's pretty inexpensive in comparison to other project management softwares in the industry, however, it still isn't crazy cheap.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ABSOLUTE BIG DISLIKE is the lack of a mac app. We would love to have a native mac app that notified us of conversations happening, tasks being completed, etc., but that hasn't yet been developed. I would also love to see gantt charts integration in the future. Right now, it's hard to have the client see a visual of all that we are creating, but gantt charts would help tremendously.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Asana we found it hard to organize projects. But, with a paid subscription to Asana and the ability to create custom fields, it's allowing us to manage multi step projects with ease. We typically add clients to the project so they can see, in real time, the progress we are making. It allow for full transparency on how we are progressing and makes the client feel comfortable with doing business with us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a shot with the free version first. However, know that what really helped us take PM to the next level was the ability to create custom fields in each project. It makes the project tasks lists way more manageable.
Best tool to manage project tasks
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use with powers to superusers (like external integrations and custom fields).
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't found an easy way to look at an individual team member's calendar.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana for managing tasks across multiple projects. All the work gets tracked in terms of Asana tasks which makes it transparent for all the teams.
Good for small projects. Needs work for medium / large projects
What do you like best about the product?
The conversational model with tasks makes it great to converse with clients and get immediate feedback. Drag and drop for attachments is a big time saver and the tagging feature works great when you need to gain additional feedback from a team member.
Asana saves on the fly as you move for each field, so there is no save button to find, as opposed to other systems like JIRA, which makes for fast task entry. Once you learn a few formatting tricks, such as the > or the : symbol in a section "title", it makes it easy to break out your tasks into sections.
Tagging is quite handy as well, especially during the final phase of a project when you are identifying bugs vs features. Since tags can be anything, I've often used them to put hourly estimates on time to completion.
Asana saves on the fly as you move for each field, so there is no save button to find, as opposed to other systems like JIRA, which makes for fast task entry. Once you learn a few formatting tricks, such as the > or the : symbol in a section "title", it makes it easy to break out your tasks into sections.
Tagging is quite handy as well, especially during the final phase of a project when you are identifying bugs vs features. Since tags can be anything, I've often used them to put hourly estimates on time to completion.
What do you dislike about the product?
While there are "row numbers" that you can have visible in a project, the only "unique Id" that you have for a task is a GUID. This can make it hard at times when you're trying to point a user to a task through an alternate channel (such as Slack) or if the task gets moved around the list and you're trying to find it again. I have resorted to simply adding our own "ID" in our task titles for this kind of visual representation.
Because of this, when you start dealing with medium to large projects with a lot of tasks, the list can become a little overwhelming to look at. There is a "sub-task" feature which can help alleviate that, and I've had mixed results with that. I personally find drilling down into sub-tasks to get important details or conversation a little time consuming. If the sub-task is a simple title/name, this works out well.
Because of this, when you start dealing with medium to large projects with a lot of tasks, the list can become a little overwhelming to look at. There is a "sub-task" feature which can help alleviate that, and I've had mixed results with that. I personally find drilling down into sub-tasks to get important details or conversation a little time consuming. If the sub-task is a simple title/name, this works out well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has worked out well to get our ever changing customer base in synch with our project work for them. It has allowed us to move away from e-mail as the primary means of communication for tasks / features we are building. It allows us to collaboratively update a task, which wasn't possible before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a medium/large scale project, consider adding "status categories" and move your tasks into there are they are ready for review or are completed. While this doesn't provide a true Kanban style board (something I hope they implement) it will help make sure important action items aren't lost in the list of tasks to do.
The task system I keep coming back to
What do you like best about the product?
Asana just works. It's reliable, it's usable, it makes sorting through the priorities of a day easy, and it makes my team's progress clear and obstacles obvious. It's a critical part of my work every day on both short- and long-term horizons. I start every day by reviewing items that are due; I end every week with a review of the past week and a look forward to the week ahead, and beyond. Asana guides me through all of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pace of improvement is slow. I've been using Asana for years and, at least for my use cases, not much has changed. Even when they add something, like the ability to mark a task as "waiting on" another, my initial excitement faded when I realized it didn't do much besides, well, mark it as "waiting on." For as many engineers they have and as well-funded as they are, I'm a bit bemused as to where all their efforts are going.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing my task priorities every day; tracking both long- and short-term priorities for me and my team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try on one team. Or even just one individual. Learn the keyboard shortcuts - they're weird, but when you learn them, you can move really fast.
Good for small teams
What do you like best about the product?
Team conversations are very useful, especially when the team is working remotely from one another.
What do you dislike about the product?
The task management system needs a little more work, look to solutions like Jira's boards for an idea of quick visibility for what needs to be done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When a team is working remotely from one another, Asana has been useful in keeping us moving the project forward and communicating with eachother.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended for teams working remotely or tele-commuting. That's where I've seen the benefits the most.
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What do you like best about the product?
I love hat we can collaborate with team members to get multiple projects done. I can check the status of my colleagues projects without having to send them an email. They can also check mine as well. The process is simple and easy and it works very well for there marketing team.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike is that there isn't a way to have ongoing due dates. For example, I may have a project that has a due date of October 10-15 I have to have a task for each day rather than just one task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest project that we have completed by using asana is he creation of our new company website. We have had people all over the world working on this together and I don't thing that this would have been done without asana.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would suggest having some test users collaborate on a major project in order to see if this is something that would work for your company.
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