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Asana has a long way to go
What do you like best about the product?
You can create tasks and assign them to people. There's also a chat function where you can mark people with @ so they will be notified.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's just not very intuitive. It's slow to load. There are too many tabs. When you comment on a task and attach a file, the file is always at the top instead of next to the latest comment. If there are too many comments to display, they collapse and you can only see the most recent ones. I wish you could just scroll without having to expand/collapse. When you get an email when someone mentioned you, the preview of the task is always cut off so it's not helpful to even have a preview.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking for a task management software that's not focused on software engineering.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would not recommend Asana.
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Simple, beautiful way to stay on top of your workflow
What do you like best about the product?
I love the design & UI and how simple it is to use. Bright colors makes for easy organization and a pleasant, upbeat "feeling" when staring at the things you need to do still.
What do you dislike about the product?
The mobile app was weak when I first started using it. They've definitely made some improvements over the last year or so, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. I'm actually in the process of moving away from Asana because of CRM integration complications and not being able to view Gantt charts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Staying organized and on top of projects and tasks is extremely simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great overall solution. Much better from a task standpoint than tools like Trello or 17hats in my opinion.
Project Management, Quick and Easy.
What do you like best about the product?
The array of features are one of the things i like most, everything is at your fingertips. You can easily do tasks with or without a whole entire project, the option to communication via email to the threads is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really haven't run into anything that I dislike about the software, the features that it doesn't have because of the pay tier are worth paying for in my opinion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the past I've struggled with maintaining order once i've hit a threshold of projects at once, asana gave me the features i wanted from basecamp at a price that I can't beat, FREE.
Very robust. The free version is better than expected.
What do you like best about the product?
Tracking, organizing and searching through multiple projects in one cohesive platform. It saves me from wasting tons of time searching notes, emails etc., to remember who wanted what.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit too robust. Adoption has been very difficult among my organization. Not always intuitive and a bit daunting to new users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saves me tons of time tracking all the threads of multiple projects. Deadlines keep projects tracking and the multiple user conversations keep everyone informed, which has been particularly useful with staff distributed in various locales.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The onboarding is the most difficult process. Adoption has been reluctant with the result that we continue to use multiple tools to communicate, although I rely heavily on Asana. Even after more than a year, I don't use, much less know all the features available, but it's highly doubtful I could wean colleagues off their Outlook Calendars to use Asana's instead. So...if you don't have the buy-in off the top, or tech-savvy colleagues, it could be a struggle getting widespread adoption.
Easy to use!
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about asana is it is easy to use, easy to assign tasks and know that tasks are being completed in a timely manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing at this time that I dislike about ASANA because it is so easy to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems I am solving with asana is account ability, not knowing when events are and when tasks are to be completed. The benefits that I have realized is that more tasks are being completed in a more timely manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great tool to get more organized, hold people accountable for tasks and great tool for meetings !
Good project management application
What do you like best about the product?
Asana offers a good structure for managing a project or event including delegation of tasks and subtasks, setting deadlines, attaching files, and segregating your projects to specific team members while still keeping everything within one organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the integration with Google calendar was better so I could assign a working time for a task on my calendar instead of just a deadline where it shows up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana allows me to better track progress of my staff on their various projects and efforts. It gives me the freedom to allow Asana to remind them of deadlines once I have set up (or they have set up) recurring tasks.
Useful For People Who Love Organization So Much It's Practically a Hobby
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to label, group, and manage tasks. I especially like the fact that it's mobile friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
That there's a better, paid version. I understand they're a for-profit business, though - and I can manage with the free version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My role requires the completion of a variety of tasks. These tasks range from very time-consuming to practically taking no time at all. It's easy for the latter to slip through the cracks while working on the former. Asana (as long as I remember to add each and every task) is my memory insurance.
Helpful to consolidate all projects and priorities
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite part of Asana is the seamless flow of information from all my team members to me, across multiple platforms. For example, our project manager can be on his phone while travelling, and he can check up on what has been completed and what is still outstanding. The platform is very easy to use and someone with no experience at all can pick it up in less than a day. Plus they have all these fun plug-ins haha. The snow fall for winter, the bats that fly around, and of course, Tab B.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much I dislike. I wish that some of the search functions were even more customizable, but we have learned to work around what we have. Maybe a few more report options, and an actual app for the Desktop, because sometimes you either forget to open the web browser, or, even if you have it automatically start, you may accidentally close it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before, the project managers used to have to manually type up the list of priorities each week. That would take up hours of their time. Of course, setting up the program the first time is pretty time consuming, but once you get a solid template, it becomes very easy to see the work flow, and realize what is needed for another step to be completed, etc. And the weekly meeting notes are now automatically populated and print directly from asana, all you have to do is adjust a few of the dates and you are good to go. So it has greatly improved the communication between our team members, especially since our company has grown from 7 employees to around 30 in the last few years, and many are now working remotely. Communication is key to meeting deadlines, and that's what Asana provides for us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When considering Asana, it is very helpful to just give it a shot. The trial is free up to a 15 member team? I think. It was 15 members free when we first started, so that might have changed, but if you have multiple teams in your company and you are a larger company, it is worth a shot trying it out on one of the teams. You will quickly see them fall in love with it.
Great, free product for managing group projects
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it's free, it's easy, and highly customizable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I'd like to have a non-browser app for the desktop
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Service Now is great for managing incidents and requests, but this has helped us make our projects realizable
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It takes literally minutes to sign in and create your team. Getting other users on board is a simple email link and makes it super easy to kick off. When we decided to start using Asana we were up and running with projects in queue in under 2 hours for a team of 15 IT staff.
Great for task management but needs some scheduling functionality
What do you like best about the product?
Task management is the primary reason we use Asana. It is easy to use, very intuitive and easy to assign things to other team members. This gives us better visibilty of the progress of certain projects. Unfortunately due to our limited size and capacity we have to prioritize things quickly. With Asana we can instantly do that by changing due dates.
What do you dislike about the product?
The calendar functionality is very limited. Unfortunately we do a lot of content marketing we need better visibility to see what is being done on this end and see what is ready to be published. Without a calendar tool things may have been completed but since there is no scheduling function we need to create a task to say simple things like "Publish content". We also use agencies so this adds additional complexities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since we have a small team with limited resources we have to prioritize our tasks. Asana makes it easy and we end up less with "I thought you were doing that". It is easy to update, access and instead of wasting time updating things we are actually completing work. We eliminate the need of having things written down on paper and determine what needs to be done by who and when it needs to be completed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
To manage your tasks Asana is an exceptional tool and elminates the need for finger pointing.
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