Asana
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If you deal with lot of team mates and hundreds of tasks, Asana is gonna save your life!
What do you like best about the product?
The best task list is the notepad, because it's simple and fast. Now imagine if you give it super powers! That's how I feel about Asana. It makes so easy to create tasks and assign them, but goes beyond a simple notepad list because you can set due dates, include followers, make comments, and much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
I confess one thing... there's a little learning curve, not so much because os Asana itself, but more about how the user will adapt the current way he organize his tasks versus the Asana way. There's some different and flexible ways to use Asana (that's what makes it so good) and in the very beginning you may feel a little lost until you find the way the best suits your needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana allows for a team to work with hundreds, even thousands of tasks in a very organized and simple way. Asana makes it possible and very delightful to stop using emails for tasks and approvals.
Easy to use and effective
What do you like best about the product?
Really easy to set up. Free package is good enough too for getting efficient project management out of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrations with other apps not available in free package. Atleast give trial option.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
project management, collaboration, task delegation etc. Benefits are that it is easy to assign tasks and keep people accountable for deadlines, progress etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is great to get your team to work together, collaborate, keep each other accountable to the tasks needed to finish a project. It also is very convenient to integrate with other apps like Slack so you can get notifications on task completions and comments being left on various project boards. Only thing is that integration is available only for non free accounts. So make the effort and pay so more apps can integrate, for example google drive, dropbox etc.
Asana is a great tool that we use to manage the status of projects as well as manage personal tasks
What do you like best about the product?
I like how I can forward an email to an address and it will create an asana task so I can move through my emails in an efficient manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was an easier way to see tasks you are added as a watcher to. There have been times when a co-worker is "assigned" to a task and I've been added as a watcher but I do not see it on my dashboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to keep track of projects, to send out weekly requests for status updates, as well as use it for operational task delegation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a great tool to keep track of projects, to send out weekly requests for status updates, as well as use it for operational task delegation.
It's fine for smaller projects
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is simple to use and great for organizing small-scale projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
For larger projects, Asana doesn't do a great job with organization. It is hard to move tasks around.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps with tracking tasks, and assigning tasks to people. It is simple to use and the user interface is very intuitive. I work with a software team of 7-10 people and it is great seeing who is working on who. However, we have tried to use this with 30 + people and it got hectic. Therefore, it is most useful splitting it into smaller groups.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is simple to use, and easy to keep track of projects and members who are doing tasks. However, it can be hard to organize because it is difficult to get too granular with tasks and keeping them up to date.
Best for project mgt!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to user - I get notifications on my phone if I"m out of the office, I get emails that I can reply a response right in Gmail, and managing any project or tasks is easy and intuitive. I love assigning 1 task to multiple projects, creating due dates, collaboration and subtasks to flush out 1 task into all the things that need to happen, and assigning each subtask to another person.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much. Their support articles are great, anytime there has been a change to the UI or they've moved something around, the support desk always points me in the right direction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing projects, staying on top of deadlines, communicating better with our company, and also the history of tasks - going back to grab a doc or image that was uploaded to a task that you can't find. It's great!
Easy to use to organize your tasks
What do you like best about the product?
I like the multiple board's feature of Asana. I can dedicate a board to each of my clients, and include the to-do list items on each. With Asana, you can include the client on the board so they can see what you're working on, and how it's coming along.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes time to get it organized and set up. If you don't have the time to dedicate, then you may not want this option.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows people to keep in constant communication. You can aks questions, and get answers, you can assign the task to someone new, and you can add subtasks to any task.
Asana for collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to keep track of tasks assigned to your team. I also like how easy it is to mark a task as complete, to start new projects with different team members, and keep yourself up to date on the progress your team is making. I like how each team member is assigned a different color so that it is easy to see which team is working on which project, and that different projects can be run from the app without having to log out and log back in.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how the notifications don't always specify if a task is relevant to you. Also, for mobile it is hard to tell whether or not you have a new task or simply a new message in your inbox. I also dislike that adding new tasks and projects with the app isn't as intuitive as it could be. Being able to see all of your open projects in one tab would be helpful. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how to create a new personal project separate from a current project instead of simply adding a task to that current project. An easier UI that provides for better flexibility between projects would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving the problem of not always being able to work with my team face-to-face, so being able to assign, reassign and keep track of tasks related to our project. I am also solving the problem of being able to share and assign tasks related to different projects with my team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be able to manage your team efficiently.
Global tool
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is great to keep us organized. It helps our boss keep an eye on what we are doing without wasting our time going over each and every product is a boring meeting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mobile app is not as flexible as the online version. But I can live with that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I like Asana because we can effectively keep track of project and progress even though team members are in different countries. It is very efficient in keeping all our our projects and deadline in front of us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the free version on a multi-site basis and you will upgrade to the enterprise versin
Simple and powerful tool to manage tasks
What do you like best about the product?
Task reminders and the fact that there is the My Tasks screen, where you can lookif you find yourself doing nothing. Oh, and it's great for tracking responsibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that you don't need to save or confirm anything. It's a hidden pro, really. It makes the work way faster but it takes time to get used to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization, task management, responsibility tracking, and always being on top of things. Well, provided that everyone marks their progress and comment on tasks. Oh, and it's a great place for discussion, including file sharing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The tool is great but good luck contacting their support. All I got were automated messages. To be fair, we fit in the free user category so maybe they prioritize paying customers.
Task Management for Teams
What do you like best about the product?
The search function is pretty good at finding every task or file related to your search query (even on completed tasks). Tagging projects and tasks helps our team keep campaigns organized instead of just floating around somewhere in Asana. When you upload images, they upload with a thumbnail preview so you can see what the file is before even opening it.
The addition of "boards" allows our team to move projects from one stage to the next and is a nice visual element to Asana. The "copy task" functionality saves me time on repeated tasks, which is huge for me each week. The abiilty to "pin to top" is especially helpful for long threads because you can keep important messages and/or files in clear view instead of buried within a long conversation back and forth with team members. Finally, the two-verification method when deleting a task is nice because the platform doesn't just get rid of something immediately--it makes you confirm it before deleting it from the backend.
The addition of "boards" allows our team to move projects from one stage to the next and is a nice visual element to Asana. The "copy task" functionality saves me time on repeated tasks, which is huge for me each week. The abiilty to "pin to top" is especially helpful for long threads because you can keep important messages and/or files in clear view instead of buried within a long conversation back and forth with team members. Finally, the two-verification method when deleting a task is nice because the platform doesn't just get rid of something immediately--it makes you confirm it before deleting it from the backend.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest drawback of Asana for me is the inability to edit comments. Users can only delete and type a new one. This seems like a simple thing to add especially when followers and @ mentions get an email notification of every new update to a task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
More organization with projects and campaign management.
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