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Great Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
The great thing about Asana is how detailed you can get, even in the free version. We currently use the free version as we are still new to it, and it has a lot of different options. I also like how it integrates with Slack (we are starting to use that too), and when someone comments on a task, we can reply in Slack and it documents into Asana.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be very helpful to be able highlight sub-tasks in a color, like you can with regular tasks. There is a work-around (tags), but that takes more time, and we tend to forget. Also, it would be great if we could archive columns in projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are very disorganized with lots of ownership questions within different projects, so this program really helps to identify who does what, and then good to be able to look back and see what was decided.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want more organization, this is a very good product. However, it is very important to know how your office works and the different tasks for each person in order to get this going. It can also be a rough transition if you aren't using anything prior to this.
Excellent Project Management
What do you like best about the product?
I love the organization in Asana and how easy it is to create projects with team members, tasks, timelines, and invite clients in to collaborate with us. The task list makes it super easy to see how your day/week looks and makes you feel accomplished when you can check something off.
What do you dislike about the product?
Conversations get lost sometimes in the news feed. When several people are collaborating on a project it's sometimes hard to loop the third person into a conversation since it can only be assigned to one person at a time. It'd be great to be able to assign one task to multiple people rather than assign a copy so that several people can be included in the alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization of project time lines and people's to do lists. We also introduce bigger clients to asana to work with us in the software and they love it. They have the capability to be involved in the project and see progress as we work on it. It helps alleviate email and make sure that projects are not falling through the cracks. It is also a great communication tool for leadership in the company to keep ongoing private notes and remind ourselves of important things on a monthly/weekly basis if needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We are still playing around with the pros and cons of pin boards versus lists for projects. They offer both views but you cannot switch it once you choose. Some project timelines work better on boards than others, but tasks don't disappear which is sometimes annoying. So it does take some testing on what works best for your projects and sometimes starting a project over with a new type of task list.
Best Team Management App
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is such a helpful tool. I absolutely love the usability of it, and all of the tools that come with one simple system. Asana is incredibly helpful, especially when a group of people are all working on a similar project or working together. It is really easy to assign and track tasks, build projects, and keep everything organized in one clear place.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I think is hard to do with Asana is ensure that you get notifications for everything and sometimes when you mark one thing off a list, I found that others would disappear but I wasn't sure why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The major business problem that we solved by using Asana was the management of tasks. Before using Asana, tasks and projects would get lost and there would be little way of knowing who was working on what project. Once we started using Asana, there was no question who was working on a project and what stage that project was in.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
My biggest recommendation to other users of Asana would be to take full advantage of all of the capabilities. Asana can work really well as a sharing and communication app if the tools are all used. Once the organization I was working with started using Asana for messaging as well as document sharing, it was so easy to know that everything was all in one place.
Great Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
I need to have all of my tasks written out or I might forget asana helps me categorize and list all my needs and due dates.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was easier to include a team so we could all use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My role is a mixture of case management and admin and HR. Lots of different tasks but all need to be completed. I’m way more on top of it with Asana.
Clean, Smooth, Productive Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a great platform for teams to have a synchronized and well-laid out platform to assign and complete different tasks. What I like best about Asana is its organizational structure. It provides a simple and streamlined way to create tasks under specific topics and gives a wide range of options for each task such as notes, assignments, comments, and alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Asana/What I think can be most improved is its calendar feature. It would be much more efficient if the calendar were able to sync with Apple or Google Cal so that the events are able to merge with more commonly used calendars for users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me, I used Asana for two major projects. First, as a Captain of a Dance Team, I used Asana to organize logistical tasks and set timelines for certain events, such as applications for competitions, timeline to learn certain choreography, etc. Second, I used Asana as Co-Founder of a non-profit, where I used the capabilities of Asana to better understand the long term timeline for the organization and make sure that certain tasks are completed in order for larger goals to be reached. I think the benefit I realized through this process is how Asana makes it easy to breakdown larger goals into small more realizable aspects that we can reach step-by-step.
Great for Small Offices
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is really easy to use and very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
It might just be the way my boss has it set up but I wish I got email reminders if a task is coming to a due date, or if the due date has passed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We would put our clients "on hold" while they completed a specific task such as see a doctor. Before Asana, our clients would just kind of get lost in the shuffle and no one would follow up. Now we have a centralized place to list our clients on hold, why they are on hold, expected dates of their task completion, and a date at which we have to follow up. As a result, we are losing less business by keeping track of our clients, and our clients feel they are truly cared for because they get a follow up call and anyone they talk to knows what is going on in their case.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great software for groups that share responsibility for tasks.
'Do yourself a favor and use this!!
What do you like best about the product?
Everything. Literally everything. I first used this program when I worked for a company out of Australia. I was in the USA. We had been using email, skype, and all this other stuff. We came across Asana and oh my word did it make life easier! We were able to assign projects, upload files, add people in, and you could set email reminders as needed or desired.
What do you dislike about the product?
At first it was a little weird to change an owner of a task. They fixed that problem though. I honestly have no complaints about this program. It seriously saved me a ton of time and saved my email inbox from being flooded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Emails were filling up faster than we could go through them. My boss would send me a project and then send 20 other emails clarifying, adding things on, sending additional info as she thought of it. With Asana they are able to assign me a task and then update that task as needed. I was able to adjust my settings so I did NOT get an email each time they made a change to a new project. That way I could just go look once everything was setup and begin my project. I was able to upload files or work done and not worry that it got lost in their email. They could go to any project and look and see what I had completed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just give it a try. Don't cancel anything you use now, just add this to your routine. I promise you will end up loving it.
Client relations & marketing associate who's been loving Asana for 2 years.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is very user-friendly. It's easy to move things around, make adjustments, and all of the functions work smoothly. Nothing is clunky.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Asana team is always improving their product & introducing cool new features. I don't have anything that I dislike about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am a client relations coordinator, so I''m always managing projects, timelines and inter-departmental tasks. Before Asana, I wasn't using any type of system to keep track of all of these tasks. There was so much that was missed, and it got really messy. I don't miss anything now that I use Asana.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use tags! They help with organization and you can search by a specific tag, if you're ever looking for a certain task.
Excellent Collaborative PM Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to easily create, assign and prioritise tasks for a project, as well as being able to create subtasks and mark dependencies is very helpful.
The conversations view allows basic email tracking to log communications with clients, which is incredibly helpful. And although still basic, the Timeline view gives a good overview of a gantt chart view.
The conversations view allows basic email tracking to log communications with clients, which is incredibly helpful. And although still basic, the Timeline view gives a good overview of a gantt chart view.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is quite weak, your currently can't report on subtasks which are important to how we manage our current projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All our companies Projects are managed through Asana. This allows us to organise and plan out our current a future workloads. It also allows us to easily provide customers with updates based on the progress of their project and any tasks outstanding.
We have multiple projects that follow the same process, with a lot of duplicate tasks and a few specific to that project. We can use the template feature to recreate these projects and update the specific tasks as necessary.
The integration with Instagantt is also very helpful allowing us to update Asana timelines and view them in a Gantt chart, and calculate individual or team workloads.
We have multiple projects that follow the same process, with a lot of duplicate tasks and a few specific to that project. We can use the template feature to recreate these projects and update the specific tasks as necessary.
The integration with Instagantt is also very helpful allowing us to update Asana timelines and view them in a Gantt chart, and calculate individual or team workloads.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a great tool even if just used at a basic level. However there is a lot of added benefit from spending time learning all the additional features that can be used and turn it into a very powerful project management tool, such as task dependencies, recurring tasks, sharing tasks between multiple projects etc.
Best Project Management Software, Free or Otherwise
What do you like best about the product?
I love their super slick web app, everything works better than expected. Love the ability to mention other members of the team, have lists/sublists. The text editor works great, emoji shortcuts, lots of shortcuts for doing whatever you want... Ability to select multiple items with Shift+Click and assign them at once... They also have a great API for custom integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really have nothing bad to say about Asana, they're a great service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps us keep track of all our assignments, big projects, or small to-do's, Asana is great!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try, it's free, you've got nothing to lose.
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