Asana
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Great task management with room for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes task creation and editing project timelines easy thanks to its very user friendly design. Very few steps are required to get a project set up and everything is very clearly laid out, so there's little excuse for an individual not to know what's happening with a project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like many PM programs, Asana could use improved reporting and exporting. You can export project data into a google sheet, but it's very raw data that requires organizing in order for it to make sense for supervisors. You can also print the project timeline as a list of tasks and due dates, but it becomes a much different looking task list that is not very clearly organized and hard for others to know what they're looking at. For such a nicely designed site, that user friendliness doesn't translate once you take data out of the site.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving issues with accountability for tasks and outcomes. It takes project tracking out of email and puts it in clear terms, as long as you set up the project well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure the paid version will satisfy your reporting needs before you move everything into this program. There are also a lot of integrations you can use with Asana which is helpful to fill in the gaps. We use the Instagantt integration and it's a nice compliment.
Great Task Software
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can drag and drop in files. Makes it easy. You do not need to go researching opening, etc. You can simply drag and drop right into your task and makes it easy for everyone to find.
What do you dislike about the product?
I hate how you can't mark items urgent or low priority. This would make it easier as projects make come in and they sometimes need to be worked on asap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
That is it centralized and can be utilized in many different aspects of the business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it! It is a fun system.
Asana: Perfect for Digital Filing Needs
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is amazing because it can keep all of your digital paperwork in an organized manner per project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana is a strong application that is organized but at times could do better in it's organization of it's calendars and sections within a project
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I know where all the paperwork for every project is and know I can rely on it if I ever need to go back and find anything
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's very good about keeping files organized and searchable. The amount of tabs can get overwhelming if not maintained well
Great For Organization
What do you like best about the product?
I like how clear the platform is. Very intuitive and easy to follow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having it as a web browser is awesome because of the live updates and all but when my internet is down I am screwed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team communication
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its fantastic for communicating with your team on tasks.
Simple and Flexible
What do you like best about the product?
Asana's shining characteristic is its balance between ease of getting started and your ability to flexibly adopt features as and when you like.
What do you dislike about the product?
The distinction between list projects and board projects feels artificial and unnecessary. It seems like they should be different views of the same data. The distinction makes the workflow slightly janky if you want to move a task between different between projects of different kinds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Task management, project management, team collaboration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can use Asana as a simple shopping list of tasks, or you can use it as an enterprise-level management tool. This flexibility creates a danger: it is easy for the list of tasks to become a forest of forgotten ideas and dead projects. Go in with a plan.
User Friendly
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use. Easy to create tasks, and helpful when you have recurring tasks that your need to get done every week. A great way to keep things organized and helps you not forget anything.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not as helpful for tasks that only happen once. It's still ok, but more ideal for recurring tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps managers see what has been completed and helps me keep on tasks.
Easiest, smoothest and one of the most collaborative tools there is..
What do you dislike about the product?
Connecting sub-tasks between different teams, especially different projects is a really convoluted process. You need to move the task up, then drag to main task, then move to a project and then move to another project. That is so many clicks and moves -- just super annoying.
It is easier to re-create the task in another project and close out the earlier one.
Very difficult to connect JIRA tickets with Asana. Wish there were some connecting SSO projects within Asana so instead of copying URLs of JIRA - we could just add it in the right fields. That would have helped a lot with reporting.
It is easier to re-create the task in another project and close out the earlier one.
Very difficult to connect JIRA tickets with Asana. Wish there were some connecting SSO projects within Asana so instead of copying URLs of JIRA - we could just add it in the right fields. That would have helped a lot with reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to assign tasks to different team members.
Easy to add followers, create sub-tasks as they arise from main tasks.
Provides the bigger picture to the executive leadership.
Easy to add followers, create sub-tasks as they arise from main tasks.
Provides the bigger picture to the executive leadership.
Super easy onboarding, Brilliant UX
What do you like best about the product?
It's super easy to get started and super easy to use the system. You can create new tasks in no time and assign them to the relevant member.
You can create new project easily and invite external members for ad-hoc missions for free as part from your current plan.
You can create new project easily and invite external members for ad-hoc missions for free as part from your current plan.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no templates for managing Agile product. You have to add and manage your own custom fields.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Smooth communication between our team member and sub-constructors.
- Help us to be on top of everything.
- Speed up our development time
- Help us to be on top of everything.
- Speed up our development time
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I LOVE the new feature to integrate with Slack. I use it all the time. The little characters that pop up as a reward randomly for finishing a task are fun.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were more creatures for what pops up when you complete a task. Also, it is not as "idiot-friendly" as I'd hoped.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our team track who needs to do what on our projects in an organized manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is fairly easy to use, but not as easy as I'd hoped. It's solid product and easily integrates with Slack.
Good for PMs to check overall progress
What do you like best about the product?
I like being able to see others’ projects so that I know who’s working on what, when, and possibly with whom.
What do you dislike about the product?
I’m not a fan of the default view settings. Due dates should be able to be filtered right away, without having to change that view each time. I also think that clicking on a task shouldn’t mean that you automatically want to edit that task; just view more infor or sub tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration is always hard, so in Asana it’s much easier to view how many people are working on a single project/client. It’s also nice to add a specific document link so that the assignees know exactly where to put their work.
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