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Asana UX
What do you like best about the product?
I like that this platform can act as a place where me and my teams can organize tasks and delegate work to each person in a balanced way. I also like that I can browse other teams within my company who are using the platform to get a sense of what other people are working on.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform as a whole is pretty basic. I don't really like that I don't receive reminder notifications on upcoming projects that need to be completed. With the array of tools that can be used to help with productivity, it can be easy to forget about some.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My company just moved offices to a new location and this was a huge help to accomplish miscellaneous tasks with the move. Because a lot of the tasks fell outside of many employees' job description, this platform served as a good reminder of what each person would be contributing to.
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A shared To Do list
What do you like best about the product?
The well defined division between workspaces, projects, tasks, subtasks. It doesn't suffer from the problem of "infinitely deep hierarchy in an outline format". It helped me focus.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a large application that consumes a lot of resources. Some features seem to require keyboard interaction.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to coordinate work between people on a single goal, but the work itself wasn't that coupled. We didn't have the issue of a supervisor setting priorities for another worker. Our main issue was accountability to ourselves and each other. Asana worked inasmuch as it allowed us to see each others lists. We had different styles, however, and progress would appear different across different lists. Still, that wasn't too much of a problem, and it probably eased Asana adoption.
Also, the general idea of how to divide the work in to workspaces, projects, and tasks can vary. I think we went too quickly into using workspaces to divide our project up, and that resulted in less communication.
Also, the general idea of how to divide the work in to workspaces, projects, and tasks can vary. I think we went too quickly into using workspaces to divide our project up, and that resulted in less communication.
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I have also tried some other products, like Trello, and find Asana is a better fit for me. I'm primarily working solo, while Trello is intended for groups. I needed to comprehend a lot of information, and execute sometimes fairly complex tasks that broke down into many smaller tasks. Asana allowed me to take extensive notes, and share them, while keeping them organized.
The perfect project management tool
What do you like best about the product?
The interface- it's beautiful. Our entire team loves it and finds it a pleasure to use. We are constantly finding new ways to integrate Asana into our workday. It's invaluable to us.
What do you dislike about the product?
We found the premium version to be poor value for money. Sometimes Asana can be slow to load or to create tasks- which can hold us up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This stops us wasting time on group projects. The time saving benefits are massive. As is the benefit of being able to have a top level view of projects at any given time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Determine how you will use asana with your entire team from the beginning. Have all members of team in asana. Top-down implementation is key here.
Best Online Project Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the design of ASANA, the user interface is very neat, i was hoping to find bugs or errors navigating the dashboard but none, it is perfectly done. I have used ASANA as a collaboration tool for my programming team, really great to see things prioritized properly and projects being done on timely manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
When there are many task the dashboard it has some clutter, i dislike it but I can live with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a blockchain project on which we add more features, We realized that we are getting things done to document and further review the work flow and task.
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Collaboration and Project Management Made Efficient
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite aspect of Asana is the ability it gives my team to stay aware of what everyone is working on across multiple clients and projects, as well as helping us all stay on track with progress on individual tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we were able to create folders with shared information without setting tasks that need to be completed. It is useful to have a shared area to keep documents and resources, but not all of these fall into tasks that can be checked off, as some are ongoing or weekly projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an agency based in a small physical office but with freelance staff located across the United States. Asana gives us the ability to communicate easily with staff members that are not always physically present at the same time and location as we are without sending complicated chains of e-mails that easily get lost or unintentionally ignored.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Regardless of what size your team is, this software is valuable at helping you assign tasks and complete them. If you have staff you manage projects for, Asana will notify them with new assignments, and gives you the ability to see when they have finished them, as well as prompt them with deadlines. It's really worth checking out if you struggle to keep track of everything you are working on and collaborating on with others,
Robust but easy to use task and project management
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes it really easy to get and stay organized. Just start typing and you can create tasks. Grouping tasks into projects is a really simple way to keep everything organized and if you have some cross-cutting concerns, you can use tags to easily identify what things go together across projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only complaint I have is that there's no nesting hierarchy for tasks in a single view. Within your project you can just see the tasks assigned to that project and if any tasks have sub-tasks, you have to examine each task to see what they are. I really miss the simple indented hierarchy from Google Tasks, but this minor oversight isn't nearly enough to stop me from saying that Asana is the best task management app I've ever used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used to all manage individual task lists, this made it really difficult to see what other people were working on and you could only assign something to someone else by directly telling them. Once we started using Asana everything is in one place and we can easily see what others have on their plate and you can assign something to them quickly and you can be sure it's on their radar. This has really helped enforce our Getting Things Done attitude and you can stop worrying that things will fall through the cracks.
Asana is a great task tracking and team collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
How quickly and easily you can get a team up and running on the platform. One of the best features of Asana is also how easy it is to add new tasks with just couple of keyboard shortcuts. Asana is also constantly improving and innovating their product. Their site is extremely reliable with an impeccable uptime.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much to dislike about Asana. The UX is extremely customizable and you can definitely tweak the way things operate to work best for you or your team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for an easy way to collaborate and share tasks among various teams on various projects simultaneously while being able to get a quick overview on how projects were progressing.
Get your entire team on the same page with simple project management
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has some great features, but what I like the most about it is how easy it is to use. The software provides several different ways to organize information. And, if you realize that you should organize it a different way, one can easily change the format or reorder tasks. If someone leaves a team, it is not difficult to search for all of their tasks and reassign them in the interim. For me, it works best to have all your information in one place, and this tool makes it easy to do so.
I even created a workspace for my personal use so I can keep track of bills, my graduate program deadlines, etc.
I even created a workspace for my personal use so I can keep track of bills, my graduate program deadlines, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
My least favorite part about Asana is the app. I love that I can take the app on the go, but I find it is not as easy to use as the desktop version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organization uses Asana for project management. Now that we have the tool, we have become much more efficient in tracking the status of a project, assigning tasks to individuals, maintaining deadlines, and tracking how long it takes to complete a project. It is especially helpful for long-term projects or future projects because we can add information or files that we need, but don't need right now.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is great for keeping many people on the same page, but ideal for smaller teams. I imagine a more robust system would be necessary for an enterprise. Additionally, it works for creative project management, but the features are not build specifically to mock-up documents so it might not be the best fit for a creative team only.
Asana is good - but not amazing
What do you like best about the product?
I like that each person has their own "to-do" list type thing. It is great to be able to view items on that list, and then click into it and see the individual steps. When I used this program as a digital marketer it was great to be able to list every small step a task may take to complete, and then show your manager your progress as you tick off each one.
What do you dislike about the product?
The way the company I was working for had it set up was that only managers were able to check off tasks, and if I mistakenly checked off a task it went away and I couldn't bring it back. This may have been our workplace set up, which I would not recommend. Its nice when you can still see the task but it has been identified as completed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana was good because there were a lot of employees and this was a good way to manage people's daily duties. We could come in for the day and see that our managers had given us new tasks, and had ordered them in priority order.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
See if you can get a demo from Asana, the product has a lot to offer but is tricky to learn everything alone. They will walk you through the finer details and really help you get the most out of Asana.
If your life is disorganized, well...organize it with Asana, you dummy.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has an insanely flexible workflow depending on how your attention is allocated. If you need long-term deadlines, immediate fixes, or need to completely change how you view your tasks, Asana can do it for you.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ability to mass assign dates is difficult. As a person that does many small tasks regularly, I need to set deadlines for myself immediately.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization. Organization. Organization. It has helped so greatly to organize folks and put the onus of responsibility on them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spend some time seriously getting to know this product. It's an incredibly powerful organizer that can help you, but you need to know all the features so it can keep you and your team accountable.
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