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Almost everything we need
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it's real-time and task-based. I think it's easy to use and sync with my calendar and other file storage systems like Google Drive. I'm also a big fan of the design of the interface and the fact that it's free for our small non-profit to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
My staff has trouble using it because there are fields that should be filled out but that aren't required. For example, we use Asana for monthly reporting to the Executive Director. While I can prompt staff to fill out this project/task, they can't always see it if I haven't added them as "followers." Sometimes I forget because I'm not prompted by the system to name followers. Generally I think the design is easy to use, but it must not be the case for staff less experienced with project management systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management, monthly accomplishment tracking, and website article editing and posting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure all staff are sufficiently trained and comfortable working with the software. If they are, this tool will be immensely useful for the organization.
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Truly excellent project management software
What do you like best about the product?
Asana includes just about every thoughtful tool you might need for collaborative task and project management. Our company uses it for huge projects and tiny tasks, from individual to-do lists to multi-year objectives.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it sync'd as well with Gmail as G-tasks does. Being able to instantly convert an email to a task (with an automatic link to the email) and to view those tasks in a condensed format would be great. I tried using Zapier for that but it was too slow and didn't handle conversation threads well enough to be useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our entire engineering roadmap is captured in Asana; we've streamlined everything about how we create, prioritize, assign, and execute our plans.
Great interface, but lacks usability
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has a beautiful interface and design. Each page was artfully designed and the transitions are fluid, giving it a very unique feel and environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am afraid Asana can be a bit confusing when moving from one team to another. In addition to that, it's organization of tasks, who their assigned to, and how they're displayed are not exceptionally intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organization expands four separate campuses around our metro. This makes collaboration difficult, and we had hoped Asana would alleviate some of those problems. Unfortunately, we did not find Asana to be more useful than simply scheduling and communicating through Microsoft Outlook.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
In order to be successful with Asana, it's imperative to spend enough time becoming familiar with the program. In addition, there must be a total buy-in. For my department, only a few of us liked it, resulting in too few individuals using it, making it useless for our purposes.
Requires discipline
What do you like best about the product?
Asana allows you to organize tasks in different categories and share them with different people in your organization. You can assign tasks to others or just let them know the progress of a task. There is a mobile app that works fine and lets you update progress on the go.
What do you dislike about the product?
It requires discipline from everybody in the team. Everyone should be convinced it is they way things are managed in the organization or else it doesn't quite work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This facilitates teamwork, and allows you to track tasks. It is also quite good to trace back the history of a project, only if everyone inputs their updates.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would say it is quite useful with groups working remotely, if you have frequent face to face interaction, that will replace asana to some extent and its benefits will not be obvious.
The whole team must use it and commit to update it continuously.
The whole team must use it and commit to update it continuously.
I love Asana
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it is simple to organize your tasks and keep a record of what you have completed. You can make your tasks super intricately detailed or super simple just based on your personal preference. I have found I am more productive when using asana.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about Asana!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have a multitude of tasks that I have to keep up with daily, weekly and monthly. Asana helps me to realize that I can do it!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it. You can share it with other people and set up tasks. It is so much better than using CRM or other "task organizers". Also, you can get the app on your phone and update or complete tasks away from your computer! I even use it for grocery shopping! Don't hesitate, just use it!
Asana is my default choice for managing projects and lists
What do you like best about the product?
I love Asana's simple, beautiful design. I also like the constant addition of new features and fixes, such as the Kanban boards that were just released. It's easy to teach my team how to use it and feels natural to adapt to any workflow. I've used Asana almost 5 years and it's always getting better.
What do you dislike about the product?
With all the improvements, Asana can feel a little slow at times. I think the pricing has gotten somewhat expensive if your team is large.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Asana for both personal projects and business projects. It's so easy to keep track of many tasks and projects at once. We've implemented some pretty complex workflows in Asana, too, even though the workflow system is very informal and doesn't include a real assignment or branching engines like more complex products such as JIRA. We actually used JIRA for a while and were overwhelmed by the workflow editing, the security, the "schemes", etc., and found Asana to be 80% of the functionality at 10% of the learning curve.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try Asana or Trello before going after a more complex product. The simplicity greatly lowers the adoption struggles for your team.
Beautiful way to organize your ideas across your devices
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a beautiful tool and an excellent way to visualize your to-dos across both your personal and professional life. I love the mobile app as well as desktop implementation and am most excited about their new release of cards/boards to visualize and organize tasks through simple drag-and-drop. It's incredibly user-friendly, simple and easy to navigate, and designed with care and precision.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints. Asana provides all the usability I need without overcomplicating things. Adding many more features would probably just become tedious—I'm happy with the functionality Asana has now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
While my favorite way to accomplish tasks is to schedule them onto time in my calendar, Asana is a great way to keep notes and other thoughts at top of mind or save for later. The team updates and collaboration features are handy, and I love how easy it is to rearrange tasks and update them. I'm staying on top of my many tasks as a social media manager and use it as well to keep track of personal tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool for personal/individual use, and good for teams as well—but only if you properly onboard everyone and make sure everyone's on the same page about using this. It's only really helpful for team use if everyone is committed to making updates, staying on top of their tasks, using the calendar, etc.
Excellent Collaboration Features and Beautiful Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has made collaborating with my team easy and convenient. I can assign specific tasks to specific team members, set completion date expectations and discuss projects. Also, being able to create different projects that have different team members involved has helped me stay organized with the various aspects of our business. This also allows our team members to not get notified on tasks that don't pertain to them.
What do you dislike about the product?
A realtime discussion feature would be a great addition for our team. If we could live chat about what we are currently working on it would help us stay on the same page sooner. A lot of changes that happen on our projects need an immediate response.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we manage and facilitate an online school. Write the lessons and work with third party vendors for videos and graphic needs. This software has helped manage every stage of the creation of a new lesson. Our team members are clear on what's expected of them and we're meeting our tight timelines effortlessly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The more you utilize all of the features of Asana the more useful it will be for your needs. Using the due date and reminder features has really helped our team stay on the same page.
ASANA: A Simple and Nagging Assistant (that you didn't know you needed)
What do you like best about the product?
Easy and simple to use; easy to see tasks assigned to you or by project or by tag. Calendar and conversations make work days easier; allows for less emails between teams. The help page is easy to navigate and we like that it is broken out into how familiar the users are with the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the features for the sub-tasks could be further developed and more options for what you can hide or add to the calendar would be helpful. Additional data features could be helpful; ghant charts, project data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
hidden customer wait times, on going continuous improvement opportunities, core system replacement. Able to be a part of multiple teams and efforts and track them all in one web based app
Great Tool For Productivity
What do you like best about the product?
Super easy to learn how to use. Almost no learning curve whatsoever to get the hang of using the tool and communicating with other members. Very pleased with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes multiple projects are not threaded together when the same team is using Asana. This can be a bit confusing when it comes to locating a project after login. I've found myself a few times having to click through multiple projects before finding the one that I was after.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communicating with a disparate team across international borders to achieve a common business goal. Easily sharing files and calendars for upcoming events and milestones. Helping to streamline communications that would otherwise be a hodgepodge of email, IM, text, and phone calls.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool for easily communicating with your team. Security is a bit lax if everyone has the same member privileges, so keep that in mind. It might make sense to have multiple levels of user accounts for different teams to keep silos separated for both privacy, and ease of communication. Really the only issue I've had with Asana is getting my projects mixed up from time-to-time. Otherwise it's a great tool for organizations large and small, and I highly recommend it for use by others.
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