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Asana

Asana

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    Higher Education

Easy to add tasks, projects, and deadlines; LOVE calendar format

  • September 24, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
My team and I use this to schedule social media posts for all of our programs, and the calendar view helps us ensure we space things out well and don't inundate our followers with too much content on any given day.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can mark tasks as dependent on other people within the platform, but you can't mark them as dependent on people who aren't in the system or just as dependent without selecting a person.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Clarity and ease of scheduling social media posts, assigning tasks and commenting to team members in other buildings
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can upload pictures and documents, so you don't have to email them!


    Jon G.

The best free work management tool

  • September 24, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It has few flaws and they usually update it very occasionally.

The free version is very comprehensive and serves many users.

You can have the tool on any device that has a browser.

There is an application for smartphones and tablets.

It is used to store a huge amount of data, you can input millions of documents, millions of notes, millions of photographs.

The history is infinite, the trial version which is free, we have been using for more than 8 years and they have never notified us that it is a limited version.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are continuously notifying that there is an improved paid version.

At times, you lose the connection and can lose some work, there is no way to do a restoration.

It seems that at times it goes slow because you are on the free version, it's as if they are turning off the tap to make you switch to the paid version.

Technical support takes a long time to respond to questions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You manage to have many people connected in the tasks that are carried out.

The best part is the history it has; you can use the tool as a database for the entire company, reviewing records from 8 years ago without any issues.

It is useful for noting down any data.

You can upload unlimited files with the trial version.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, it is a free tool that I recommend to anyone who is interested in keeping a file of tasks, data, and unlimited attachments.


    Computer Software

Good platform for team management

  • September 23, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Track activities among the company and specific teams become easy
What do you dislike about the product?
People can assign tasks to others without asking permission
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team and project management


    Marketing and Advertising

Best Project Management & Task Management Software

  • September 21, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can assign a task to my team and create tasks for myself. I can see where my team is and keep an eye on approaching deadlines without having to constantly ask where my team is on a task. I love the conversation feature so that you I can discuss a task within the task itself instead of in an email chain.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any dislikes with the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the software to manage the billing function between our accounting department and our business units. It helps streamline the monthly process and helps everyone know what has been assigned to them and when their deadlines are.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great project management software for the the non-project manger folks!


    Religious Institutions

Works well for colaberation

  • September 21, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Designating tasks to different staff members has been a huge hit with the team. it has made coordinating projects much easier. Having due dates and an easy to use calendar allows for good team management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish there was more chat integration like slack.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project Management. keeping tasks on track. Getting every one to use asana has been harder than i expected. everyone has their own way of keeping their projects in order. Seeing the why behind the what has been crucial for us to ensure positive use of the software.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a product that is well worth considering as a tool for your team. Using this along with a communication tool makes a very effective tool.


    Apparel & Fashion

Asana runs my life

  • September 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Asana is easy to use, clear and easy, simple to collaborate and invite contributors and reduces complex projects into simples tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration with Slack can get annoying
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cross departmental projects are made easy!!


    Spencer C.

Excellent Tool For Visualizing Work and Flow

  • September 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Many web-based kanban/AGILE/swim-lane tools and project management tools in general are complex and difficult to learn. When I was presented the task of managaing a complex technical project with a team of 20+ manufacturing managers, team leads, and engineers, I knew I needed a simple tool that was visual, colorful, and inviting. After a lot of searching, I found Asana and I was very pleased. The click and drag UI with simple, clean, and colorful theme made it appealing to users and easy to train on. Even users with very little history with web-tools could go in and see what work was assigned to them and provide updates. This is a tool I will continue to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some features I am not a fan of. For instance, the fact that a task can have only one assignee. However, Asana has an active forum environment and has responded to others with this issue. Their perspective makes sense - at the end of the day, you want ONE person ho can answer for a deliverable. "When everyone owns it, no one owns it." However, this is difficult when trying to structure layered teams.

Also, I was not a fan of the 3rd party integrations available and the lack of Gantt chart support. I ended up using Insta-Gantt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Team synergy
- Work assignment tracking
- WBS
- Progress tracking

Better communication, more task/responsibility awareness, simple, short, concise, and more frequent communication intervals through comments on tasks and sub-tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spend time learning the features, setting up tags and favorites, and browse the forums. This is not only a simple tool to use, but is feature rich.


    Camille Angelica M.

ASANA has been very helpful.

  • September 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The projects are well organized and ASANA is user friendly. We can easily access the projects added on asana and can easily upload and attach documents as well. Asana is like a one stop shop where everything is really accessible. You don't need to find other platforms as everyhting could be in asana.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike in using ASANA. Since I start using asana, there is no downside of it that I have found. And I have no issues encountered. It has been really a great help. And it has been one foundations of our success with regards to the projects we worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana has been used as our method of communication in taking over some projects with the clients. And it has been so easy for us because it is organized and easy to use. There are many benefits that I have experienced with asana. It has been a great help on managing projects, even though we have so many projects on going it has been easy because of the user friendly interface asana has.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend asana to others. Most especially those people who are working in a group and working on many projects as well. Even though there are many project handlers, you can easily be on track as everything is really organized and it is really user friendly. The comments are also a great help as all the insights of the members or the handlers of the projects are being considered.


    Writing and Editing

1 Month Review of Premium (from someone who has used tons of project management tools)

  • September 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

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.


    Jorge E.

A very good estructurated tool

  • September 20, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
You have a lot of options for customize your planning, is a very good estructurated tool with a nice hierarchy for improvement your workflow and your capacity of work if all your members finish their task in time.
What do you dislike about the product?
We used both kind of accounts, free and premium, for a not very complete use, free account is more usefull than premium, with a limit of 5 members in your projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to get a better workflow and our planning for get successful
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We are still implementing it, we have 2 kind of accounts, some free, some premium, we are comparing the use of free ones with premium ones, at this moment we are not very happy to pay an expensive service that offers a really difficult solution, creating it more problems coordinating all of us in Asana that in other platforms, is not a bad tool, but you must to test it before and know what can offer it to you, because if you pay before of it, maybe you will not be happy with this.