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Manage small to large-scale projects with Asana
What do you like best about the product?
Asana provides visibility into project status and encourages communication between teams & departments across projects of any size. You can go deep into the weeds of a project by assigning project status as a colored tag, start and end dates so contributors can efficiently manage time, and view projects in list view or calendar view depending on how high level you'd like to go. There are several efficiencies built into the platform; for example, tagging a teammate will automatically add them to the project or task if they were not previously a follower. You can also quickly adjust multiple due dates at once for several tasks. Plus, best of all, you can enable fun animations that jump across the screen when you check off a task, a little known hack that will lead to immense satisfaction (trust me). Overall, the UX is incredibly intuitive and friendly on the eyes.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some items I'd like to be able to set Defaults for that I cannot; for example, in list view being able to auto-sort by Due Date. I always have to adjust this setting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps our department manage on average 40-50 monthly projects, per person. That's literally hundreds if not thousands of projects that we are able to communicate with the other departments we collaborate with. I literally can't imagine doing all of this through email, or even through some fancy folder structure in Google Drive. Plus, Asana's emphasis on task completion really helps everyone gauge where we are in a project, and what's holding us back from completion.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a lot of customization that can be made, including status tags and how you approach the management of projects or tasks in general. There's a lot of options, so it is best to appoint someone as lead to help craft how your organization leverages Asana.
Asana has made my life so much easier!
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to use, how simple it is to assign tasks to someone and keep track of what's going on. It's brilliant!
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to add tasks to specific time slots in a day to organise my calendar. This would help not having to use outlook to manage my calendar.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lack of organisation on projects. Asana just makes it easier by giving me the confidence to not overthink my tasks. They're all logged in there, therefore I don't have to think about them. But I also know that I won't forget anything.
It has also helped improve the logging of external queries, helping keep track of what's going on and the progress made on them.
The other brilliant thing I decided to use it for, is for the logging of new newsletter subscribes, as it has the option to export to CSV it makes it so much easier.
It has also helped improve the logging of external queries, helping keep track of what's going on and the progress made on them.
The other brilliant thing I decided to use it for, is for the logging of new newsletter subscribes, as it has the option to export to CSV it makes it so much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a software that is able to manage teams effectively - this is it. It works extremely well, it's fast and easy to run and it does everything you need.
Mastering Tasks Like a Pro
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Asana allows subtasks for a major task. It helps you break down each component of a task to keep you on track with a workflow. Asana has features like assigning a time when a task is due.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, the only thing I dislike is not being able to enjoy the animation when you click off a task. The animation tends to appear in the background and not layers on the front part of your screen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping organized on track with tasks. Having dates and time when tasks are done and having a master list of my tasks to keep me on track. I use it even for personal uses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Free version. Can not go wrong with trying it out. Excellent free version to try.
Activity Tracking for Teams
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to create custom fields and tags etc. that are unique to our team really set this task manager above others. In addition to that, the calendar view for particular tags helps us keep track of everyone's day, and everyone knows what everyone else is working on. This feature alone is the number one feature in our opinion.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some aspects of the UI.. I wish things were a bit more customizable and I wish I could fit more on my screen at once, possibly from different projects etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has helped me personally to really optimize some of my workflows. It's no longer a question of what I need to do next, I just speed my way through the checklist and I am good to go! It has also helped us tremendously as a team, to assign tasks to others and even generate discussion about what to do next within a particular project.
Pleasant to use, great for task managing with few drawbacks
What do you like best about the product?
Clean, understandable interface, tasks are arranged in a logical order. Project collaboration is a beautiful thing to witness
What do you dislike about the product?
Projects can disappear with a few wrong clicks, mistakenly completed tasks can get separated from the parent project topic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeps everyone on the same page to say the least. I dont know what we'd do without it
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make use of the templates they will save your life!
Asana for commercial cleaning
What do you like best about the product?
Asana gives us the ability to communicate with all levels of management. It allows us to find new and interesting ways to solve problems
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the structure of the projects can get a little confusing for newer users. Generally after a little bit of training and time using the product it gets easier
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has allowed us to affectively manage the projects that we have on a day-to-day basis. Instead of things getting lost in translation. Instead of things being forgot about. We have everything in one place
Asana keeps me sane
What do you like best about the product?
Asana keeps my life organized. Asana allows me to keep my work organized. What's great is that not only am I organized I can keep my clients organized as well. It's a no pressure way of reminding your clients what they need to do and they can see what you have been doing too.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the different views confusing. Sometimes finding your projects between the different tabs is slightly difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a great way to keep all my Clients organized.
Lots of features but I don't feel more organized
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes it possible to collaborate with others -- to have shared to-do lists and events with all my co-workers so that we can coordinate within our team and across various teams in order to make projects happen. I like the way it's possible to create different projects and dashboards and to assign tasks to specific individuals.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's difficult to add another site/login to my daily work process -- I find that I still jot things down on post-its or use my calendar application to keep track of things I need to do, instead of putting them in Asana. It's also difficult to track where things are in a process or to schedule the order in which things need to happen. Also, it's possible to assign things to someone, but they don't necessarily have to acknowledge/accept that the tasks were assigned.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're solving the problem of multiple people working on the same issue without coordinating. Benefits include less duplication of work responsibilities and fewer conversations about "has anyone thought of x" or "has y been addressed." It's easy to find invoices, documents, and materials related to a particular project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend you evaluate what existing productivity tools you're using, and determine whether it's better to invest more in those (or upgrade to more elaborate versions of them), or to add another tool instead -- in which case you may want to divest from some of your current business practices.
Easy, intuitive and good for small teams
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to have oversight of both my tasks and those of my team members is very important. It's easy to set deadlines and stay on track. It has also seemed to have adopted certain elements from trello and other productivity tools which have helped create a more complete product.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are better tools for more graphic-intensive projects. All users on the same domain are automatically included in the same account. This is ok for smaller teams, but for larger more disparate teams this seems like it could create some organization issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a distributed team so it is important that the entire team is able to keep track of what the others are working on. It promotes accountability and allows us to adapt as needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We did trials of a few different options, and our trial with Asana helped cement our decision. If your team is small enough it can stay free and if you're looking for a way to manage your projects, no reason not to try it.
Absolutely Love Asana
What do you like best about the product?
I love the visibility that Asana gives our Stakeholders. Through using Asana we've taken what used to be 3-4 hour meetings and trimmed them down to 30 minute meetings!
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that they don't have a solid Windows Phone app is the only thing that i would say that i dislike about Asana. Considering the tools that Microsoft provides to easily make apps that bridge all 3 platforms, i don't know why people continue to treat us Windows Phone users like the black sheep!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Integration was easily implemented. Ability to associate tasks with one another while keeping them organized by area of concern, while still providing great visibility and notification of progress has been life changing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely give Asana a shot if you're at all unhappy with your current task software
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