What do you like best about the product?

It was a central hub for my team to make commitments and update their progress

What do you dislike about the product?

It was not as efficient as I needed it to be. It seemed easier to hold weekly meetings to get status updates vs. going to Asana.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaboration, management and accountability.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are committed to digitizing project management and are okay with learning how to do something through a dashboard vs. writing it down, then this is for you. Would likely have been better for more remote teams.

What do you like best about the product?

There are some things I like about Asana. I like Asana's Kanban, tags, and the copy and paste of tasks. I like that you can add child tasks. I like there's a calendar associated with each project. I think Asana is starting to build out their software and I think they're listening to their end-users.

What do you dislike about the product?

This is not a mature tool by any means. It's fine if you're using it for yourself but I wouldn't recommend introducing Asana to your team. Why?
1. Notification is all or nothing. You can either turn on notifications or you can't. You can't toggle the notifications.
2. Relying on 3rd party for burndown charts. A lot of software project management includes a burndown chart. Asana uses a third-party app, screenful.me. You have to pay for it and it doesn't give clarity into the project's status.
3. Disjointed projects. You cannot see holistically the status of your projects. This means you have to click inside each one.
4. Struggles talking to 3rd party APIs. For some reason there is an initial sync and then the handshake drops. This happened across multiple APIs.
5. If you've used other mature tools then you'll probably struggle using Asana. It doesn't provide enough clarity or detail to be able to make decisions.
6. Very difficult to prioritize tasks. You can move tasks up and down but that's it. You also can't view tasks and subtasks across a project. You can only view the subtasks if the task is open.
7. No automated workflows. Makes no sense as your team has to remember the process for doing X. If you have a lot of teams this can get messy very quickly.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The one business benefit I realized was tool selection criteria needed to be tighter. I wasn't here when Asana was chosen and the tool gets in the way of progress. I inherited the role of admin.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Make your PM software selection criteria list tool agnostic. Can't imagine a mature organization ever using this. Might as well use Excel to track your project at this rate.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like the ability that Asana gives me to assing tasks

What do you dislike about the product?

I wish that using Asana, the ability to track changes via comments would be easier. Communication is really helped so it would be greate to improve this

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communication

What do you like best about the product?

Asana is a project management cloud tool that projects managers can use to keep track of their tasks, projects, and assignments. We had a few applications to choose from, such as, Basecamp, Smart Sheets, etc.; however, our organization felt that moving from Basecamp to Asana would be more beneficial. If you have used Basecamp, Asana is fairly similar and just what I like to call an "upgraded" version of what Basecamp could be.

What do you dislike about the product?

It lacks features that many well built programs such as Smarts Sheets offers. I also felt it was not user friendly as you have to literally confirm 3 times to delete a task. There also isn't a progress bar feature other than something such as a drop down that you can customize to add to each task (example: waiting, in progress, on hold, etc.). A toolbar would also be a nice addition, but there is not one available. There are many features that are also hidden and you have to customize which should be very easy to find such as on Smart Sheets. Lastly, creating a template is a pain. Still trying to find where we can build a template we can use rather than recreating the entire project from scratch. Again, lacks flow. I would take a pass if you are very specific when it comes to Project Management applications. If you are looking for something less confusing and more features, I would not recommend this tool. It is good for a beginner Project Manager.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are currently using asana for application deployment, office relocation, and windows 10 deployment

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I recommend to look into an application called SmartSheets

What do you like best about the product?

1) The user interface is one of the best I've experienced falling somewhere behind Monday and somewhere before Basecamp.

Asana's UI is so clean and attractive that you'll actually want to use it (unlike many other platforms that you dread using so much you start to wonder what was so wrong with managing projects via email.)

What do you dislike about the product?

1) This is seriously the hardest platform to learn. I've used (and tested) tons of other software including Teamwork, Wrike, Basecamp, Trello, Airtable, Monday, Samepage, Quip, etc. Asana has the most difficult learning curve to utilize the premium features to their potential. When you discover there is an "Asana Academy," onboarding consultations, premium training, live webinars, detailed guides and videos that can take up months of your time--you will want to give up. I don't know who has that much time on their hands to learn Asana and then train their team. It really shouldn't take that many resources to onboard a market like Asana's, they're not target at large enterprise corps.

2) Nothing on Asana is as intuitive as it looks. Functions you're accustomed to (e.g. press enter to submit) have been thrown out the window. Now pressing enter will only create a new task even though you're not trying to create a new task. You think you can edit your comment only to find out some comments can be edited and some can't. There are like a million calendars in Asana, some of them show subtasks, and other randomly don't show your subtasks. Most calendars don't have filtering making them useless. You will constantly ask yourself why is this or that taking up so much precious real estate. You will also miss Ctrl + z function because you can't undo your last actions in Asana. Be prepared to unlearn your internet habits.

3) All the features that you would expect Asana to have, they don't, including proper file management or even hyperlinks for external URLs. Also, be prepared to pay for many extra integrations just to bridge basic gaps like time tracking. You'll see that they always advise you to use an outside integration whenever you inquire about a feature or tool.

4) Support is lacking. No phone support. Email support sends unhelpful canned responses. The forum community feels like a handful of veterans (i.e. forum admins and developers trying to market their integrations) who are annoyed with newbs complaining about the software.

5) No roadmap. Users are constantly asking for features and basically hearing that Asana can't or won't implemented said features (time tracking for example). But Asana refuses to share a roadmap of the things they can/will implement. Hopefully, you'll like wherever they're going but you won't know until you get there.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project management, team collaboration, task management.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Software should make your life easier, not harder. You don't need the extra stress.

What do you like best about the product?

Being able to pass tasks from one team member to another is helpful.

What do you dislike about the product?

My biggest complaint is the lack of clear transparency. The interface doesn't clearly show how a task has been passed around--it's just in subtle, small grey text. I'd prefer a visual diagram of what's going on. For instance, I'd like each task have a diagram showing who created it, how it's been passed around, and what has been done or said about it along the way.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It mitigates emails and centralizes tasks.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I'd try out the other options as well, like MS Planner. I'm not sold on Asana. It's awkward. But so is MS Planner.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that you can create a template for your projects if you have projects that always have the same stages or steps. I also like that you can see if a coworker has completed a task and send them a reminder directly from the app interface. You can also have different teams for different types of projects which is pretty cool.

What do you dislike about the product?

Would like the ability to create projects and alter project details via an import instead of manually. Example, I had to deliver my product within the clients dictated timeframe. Project dates were updated weekly (160+ projects each with 3 key dates) and as project dates change due dates of key project stages change accordingly, without a way to quickly update all the projects I actually stopped using Asana

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was using Asana to manage various projects that happen all at once and also one after the other. This helped keep the other people on my team on track for their projects and there was good visibility as to who should be doing what. Asana encouraged accountability and productivity in that sense.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

This can be a good way to collaborate with coworkers and get a visual on projects

What do you like best about the product?

I have been using this web service in my six-persons team for 6 months. This website is like Slack except that Slack focuses on the talking while this service is more like a projects managers. Teammates assigns a job for others and teammates marks their jobs done.

What do you dislike about the product?

It may be useful for large teams so that people can communicate effectively, and keep the project logs. However from my perspective in small teams this service is not that useful. Only three or two people working in this project and everyone's progress is almost linear: you won't have any communication problem. You are trying to solve a problem that, perhaps, does not exist at all.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Use it as a project manager, where teammates could assign works to others and teammates could mark the works done or submit their progress individually.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are working in a big team working on a single project and you could try. This is like a git: it is useful when the scale of project is large