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Not for new startups and small teams
What do you like best about the product?
It shows a roadmap of tasks and manages teams efficiently. The more things and people you add to it the more complex and overbearing it gets. It may be better to have everyone manage their own tasks separately in a system like Trello. There less of a learning curve there. Plus, if you're a small team or a startup with a budget, Asana is too big for you. This is for larger teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
It wasn't the right fit for our company, but I could see benefit. When it first came out, productivity software was fairly new and it was trying real hard but lacking in actually brining organization and increased productivity to our team. Too many features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Productivity, task management, team accountability. All work in Asana if you work at each of them. Asana doesn't work unless you do. Just be sure the software matches your company needs.
If you're in a small business or solopreneur, this will work for you
What do you like best about the product?
I like the simplicity of this software. Whenever we onboard non tech savvy clients, I am so thankful that Asana is simple and straightforward, it doesn't take too long for our clients to adapt to it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the fact that you can't assign one task to multiple people. There are certain tasks that would need collaboration and I really prefer if there's a way for Asana to make it happen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management of casual or ad hoc tasks from different clients. Because of Asana, we're now able to have a better visibility on every team member's workload plus all client tasks in the pipeline. This has become an interactive gantt chart for the entire team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Kudos to Asana for introducing a new feature yesterday RE start date. As for another feature, I'd really want Asana team to find a way to enable us users to assign one task to multiple people.
Great collaboration software for distance workers
What do you like best about the product?
I think the number one feature I love is that I can add tasks to the system via email. I use Infusionsoft to manage all aspects of my business, lead gen/sales and operations. I love that I can have tasks added to my remote workers' "ToDo" lists automatically, as a person moves through my fulfillment pipeline.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that tasks can't be scheduled to show up at a time in the future. Sometimes, when doing web management for clients, they want something added for a short period of time (a sale, for example), and I'd like to be able to schedule both the "add content' and 'remove content' tasks at the same time instead of having to calendar the removal and then manually add at that time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The greatest benefit for me is task management for my remote workers. I have people on several continents that do work for me and keeping track of everything was quite cumbersome. With Asana, I can keep all the tasks for every one in one simple location.
Asana makes Project Management easy for non-tech-savvy users
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of access is great especially on mobile. Even my older users who are not tech savvy love the program and their ability to see the day's tasks at a glance and complete tasks as they go. Email notifications make it easy for me to see what is being accomplished on a day-to-day basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloud services are sometimes unavailable and I have difficulty uploading large attachments to tasks. Photo thumbnails seem to pick and choose when they show up vs when they appear as a hyperlink to the photo. Ability to edit team members (names, access to certain subtasks, email notifications to them vs the project creator/owner only, etc) would be nice, maybe this is something available with premium membership that I am not aware of. Would also like to see a more responsive calendar section that is not tied directly to a task list, and an option to email notify of upcoming events/tasks based on parameters set when making a calendar entry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of access for use in the field on mobile devices has been greatly helpful.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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The most organized I've ever been in my life!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how Asana allows me to divide projects into tasks. It really helps me to keep every detail in mind while communicating with all of the team members involved.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no features that I dislike, but I do think that the platform takes some time to get used to - for example, it's hard to remember that if I don't tag my supervisor in a task, she won't see my comments and know that the task was completed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has definitely helped us solve organization issues regarding the flow of projects and also brings transparency into our team's workload. Before, each individual team member as well as our manager would get emails asking for a certain project to be completed and only those who got the email knew about the project. We were tied to our inboxes for insight on what the day would be bring and we were unable to divide the workload evenly amongst everyone because we all had different requests from different people. With Asana, all project requests come to one place where we can all see them, assign them to someone, add due dates, and monitor progress.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana can definitely bring organization to your life - especially if you're managing projects for a team of 5 or more.
Best of Cost and Ease of Use
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is terrific for pumping ideas out and swiftly organizing them into their needed structures and delivery chains. It's also quite easy to get feedback and have targeted conversations about specific points and keep them going. Quick ease of use is the main benefit as Asana will make it very seamless to use day to day for a huge variety of projects and conversations.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Asana has been adding a lot of new features that were extremely critical to being able to custom label and organize content, it hasn't been very quick to release these updates features, meaning a while of finding workarounds to some commonly needed views and desired labeling.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Asana has solved the issues of organizing contractors and being able to have a shared, but easily controlled space for working on specific projects. Thanks to Asana we stopped using emails to organize projects and can now do them entirely within the Asana ecosystem.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Project Management software really does depend on some core things like how your team communicates. If your team is collaborative and likes solving problems and getting work done, Asana is one of the easiest and most attractive places to do that. If you have a lot of trouble onboarding people onto a shared space and find they don't or wont' keep track of updates and comments, or are looking to treat the software like a file storage and organization environment, then you might not be able to take full advantage of what Asana can offer.
Excellent project management tool and personal to-do-list
What do you like best about the product?
• Excellent to do list
• Excellent tagging and cross-project to do lists.
• New kanban board functionality makes my other board productivity apps redundant (I can do everything virtually from asana)
• Always developing new things
• Free version has vast usability
• The app makes it highly usable across multiple devices
• Integrates with other things like Google Calendar
• Excellent tagging and cross-project to do lists.
• New kanban board functionality makes my other board productivity apps redundant (I can do everything virtually from asana)
• Always developing new things
• Free version has vast usability
• The app makes it highly usable across multiple devices
• Integrates with other things like Google Calendar
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike to be honest. Could have more background design features. It would be nice to have a button to switch lists into board mode at will. VERY minor dislikes. This online app is one of the best I have found. There could be better options in reports. I also wish that when you make projects, that the headings in your projects would stay static so that if you sort the tasks in a project then the tasks would sort underneath their headings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management. What an amazing tool. Helps me in planning, strategy, managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Most productivity apps have free versions like this so feel free to try all at once. After a few days you will find that the apps you can't ignore (like asana for me) will be your long term app. Asana offers a really no risk investment being free and you will find that it is tremendously useful. I was also you using Trello in conjunction with Asana, but with Asana's new 'board' functionality I have suddenly had no need for Trello anymore.
Easy to use, excellent UI, plenty of features
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about Asana is how much it enables you to continue using it. With the ability to sync with any of your calendars, you are able to completely stay on top of all of your tasks at hand. Because of this, using Asana is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I wish Asana had was a dedicated application for MacOS and Windows. Sometimes it's just another browser tab/window that is taking up space. I would love to be able to have it as a desktop application which can handle alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana to handle our due dates and make sure that our developers are on top of when their current projects are due. With the developers knowing when their projects are due, we are able to deliver our projects and products to customers in a timely manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely take on Asana. It is a great product and when implemented with programs such as Slack it can become so powerful. With Slack you can have your deadlines appear from Asana directly in the chat, or private message your employees reminding them that things are due on a specific date. With Asana it has never been easier to keep on top of all of your current tasks.
Asana is my brain's external control center
What do you like best about the product?
I love how simple it is to create tasks directly from my email, which makes it possible for me to keep my inbox at zero while knowing that nothing is slipping through the cracks!
What do you dislike about the product?
If I could be granted one improvement for Asana, I wish that there was a way to have relative dates in templates. It saves me a ton of time being able to create project templates in one click, but then I have to manually set the dates on each task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage projects for my day job, my editing business, my author community, and my books in Asana. In one place, I can easily see what I need to do across all of my business projects; or I can just look at one project at a time and work in focused blocks of time. Before I started using Asana, I was always in a state of latent stress, wondering if I was working on the right task at the right time!
Great tool for keeping you team on track
What do you like best about the product?
I like how it is cloud based and I am able to track the work of my team for anywhere, even if I'm not in the office.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial set up has you getting email updates about everything. Until you change this you get a lot of unnecessary emails.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prior to using Asana we used a large white board to keep the status of our jobs. Asana allows us to track out work from anywhere is real time and keep an unlimited amount of notes about what is going on
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana has a lot of flexibility depending on how you like to work. If you are a neat and organized person who likes lists there is an option for that and if you more abstract you can set it up to work that way as well.
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