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Great for use across multiple teams
What do you like best about the product?
Two main things that I like:
- the ability for tasks to be assigned to multiple projects or boards, this helps when we want to draft out a quarterly plan and then assign the individual items or subtasks to team boards
- the new boards feature! It doesn't have all that Trello brings but is good enough for us. Plus we get a list view, which is much easier for tracking multiple items
Of course, this would be for moot if it didn't handle the basics of task management well, which it does!
- the ability for tasks to be assigned to multiple projects or boards, this helps when we want to draft out a quarterly plan and then assign the individual items or subtasks to team boards
- the new boards feature! It doesn't have all that Trello brings but is good enough for us. Plus we get a list view, which is much easier for tracking multiple items
Of course, this would be for moot if it didn't handle the basics of task management well, which it does!
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a little more complex than a simple task list, and I could see it becoming a beast to manage if there are hundreds of people on it. That said I think most software would struggle with that in some form or other, and this is a good pick.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of our quarterly initiatives together with the daily tasks
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Good basic tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like that they are constantly adding features and making things more intuitive to find. In the very beginning, they did not even have bolding, italics within the description fields. It has come a long way since then and made it easier to track project status. The look and feel keeps it fun and fresh as well. The ability to "heart" feed updates and tasks completions is a nice way for the team to encourage one another.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I most dislike is the difficulty of exporting and moving entire projects. You can move tasks around within projects but if you want to export an entire one, or move it between your shared and personal projects, you have to use other work-arounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has been my solution for tracking the status of simultaneous projects. Since Asana allows you to drill down within tasks to keep track of subtasks, it allows you to kept all the smaller detailed tasks organized. With different people working on different parts of the project, it is helpful that Asana allows you to customize the permissions within projects, even down to only making certain subtasks within a project viewable to certain groups. It also makes it easy to keep track of project status and completion visually through tagging with different colors.
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A tool that has the basics for collaboration and project management.
Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
With Asana, I can clearly see all tasks and projects in one easy view versus having to scroll back and forth or use multiple tabs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I need to install on my desktop as an app or something versus having to open a webpage because I always forget to log in and update what needs to be done and what's completed. Wish it would send me reminders when deadlines are due.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We juggle all day long. Special Events, large events, seminars, networking, training- all the above and this helps to keep each project in a virtual file folder versus one scratchpad being carried from meeting to meeting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's free to try! Take time to use the tool for yourself and figure it out before adding colleagues so that you can help direct them and answer their questions. Be sure to download the app. Something we didn't opp to do in the beginning and it defeated the purpose for instant notifications and cutting down on email.
Helpful but found different interfaces difficult to use simultaneously
What do you like best about the product?
The sharability of tasks and the help it gives to do project management in separable locations. This was a huge solution to our meshing of various different projects under the same realm in our previous interfaces. The customer service reached out to us multiple times after we got going to make sure there was nothing else that we might need (huge bonus).
The side tab has been nice in being able to quickly change to make a note on a second existing project while it's on my mind (with the craze of running a small non-profit that is rapidly growing, this was a big deal).
The side tab has been nice in being able to quickly change to make a note on a second existing project while it's on my mind (with the craze of running a small non-profit that is rapidly growing, this was a big deal).
What do you dislike about the product?
I had a hard time really using the calendar along with the project management
also wish there were more uses connected to informing our clients that a project is finished through asana when they themselves don't use asana.
also wish there were more uses connected to informing our clients that a project is finished through asana when they themselves don't use asana.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
one business problem that this has helped us to resolve was a database of projects to see patterns of the work that we may be getting more frequently as we grow from a small business.
project and program managament for sewing and woodworking.
organization! projects had certainly lacked many fine lines of what goes where, asana gave sectors for things to live in and a common diction of where to find them.
project and program managament for sewing and woodworking.
organization! projects had certainly lacked many fine lines of what goes where, asana gave sectors for things to live in and a common diction of where to find them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be weary that it is not a replacement to email. That was a difficult thing for us to sort through along with archiving being a little bit messy / having recurring orders in production was easier to do on paper than asana at a certain point of it no longer being as "user friendly" in that respect.
Great web app for managing remote projects
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great way to arrange tasks in a check list type of format. Tasks can have subtasks and it is easy for a project manager to assign people to tasks and sub tasks and know who is responsible for each item. files can be uploaded to the individual tasks and email updates will let you know when someone has made uploaded a new version or commented on a task.
What do you dislike about the product?
designing task precedence is a little difficult because there are only tasks and subtasks from what I have seen. I believe this is being developed, but it still does not allow for complex task networks the way microsoft project can. While the strengths are in assigning and tracking tasks, as a PM, I have not found a way to monitor KPIs or track overall project efficiency other than looking at the task deadlines and completion dates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This works well for software or document based projects where the goal is to have documents reviewed in cycles. Asana makes it easy to delegate and track project deliverables. Asana is especially useful in remote projects where the team is not co-located and the PM may be in another city. the comment section is great for explaining the status to a task and linking to people required to address the problem.
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it is a good task based application for simply laid out projects that are primarily computer based.
Great tool for mid size teams
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using Asana to coordinate with a remote team and it seems to work fine. The boards concept is pretty nifty and helps you keep everything in one view ! User management and assigning works very fluently.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that the boards functionality took forever to be released. I had used that standard list view for long enough. For a considerable time I had used trello for that one single reason. Be great to have a simple view of tracking which user is trailing and set up alerts and reminders from Admin.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had rolled out a major project involving localization and we were working with multiple small teams for translation. We could keep a very clear track of our project, completion rate and attack the timeline very aggressively. We were able to track, assign and get things done very swiftly - without opening emails :)
Thorough task management tool with a learning curve, but a overall worthwhile investment
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a great tool for holding teams accountable for all tasks that need to be done--and it takes the tiny tasks you have to complete into account. The tool makes it very seamless to assign individuals in a team work to be completed for a project and has a nice interface that makes sense once you can take the time to learn the software. The hierarchy and division of tasks is really helpful as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to get used to at first, but definitely worthwhile when you invest the time to get used to it. It is also impossible to assign one task to multiple individuals on a team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work with a small team that deals with many facets of the larger business. So for me, it was hard to personally keep track of all of the smaller/fleeting tasks that were assigned to me as they came up in conversation or at the end of meetings. Asana helped streamline the transparency of tasks and made it enjoyable to keep up with work and help me manage my own tasks according to my own priorities.
Confusing all around.
What do you like best about the product?
It's a good system to manage tasks, and it's nice that I can assign them to different people and get an update on their work. It's also nice that everything can be consistent between projects. You can also add multiple files to a task.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system is really confusing. First off, I wish there was a way to organize by client or project number, and I wish there was a way to have different task templates for different projects without having to make a copy of every task. Also, maybe I'm just using it wrong, but I can't seem to figure out how to assign a task to multiple people so they all get updated. The program isn't very self-explanatory, and we have huge documents at work to train us on how to use it. Most of the time people get confused and do it incorrectly and the rest of the team gets confused. It would also be nice to be able to set up reminders for recurring tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's definitely better than just sending a task request through email where it can get lost. It also gives us notifications when our project is finished so we can just go to our dropbox and start using it immediately.
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I feel like it's a system that requires a lot of practice and adherence to protocol. Depending on your company's needs you'll have to come up with your own system.
Asana is user friendly and very flexible
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is extremely easy to use and very user friendly. I've used it for the last 4 or 5 years, and I've also tried a few other project management/task management apps. I've always come back to Asana. I love the fact that you can add sub tasks to regular tasks - that's a HUGE plus for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that you can't organize your tasks with anything other than 'Today', 'Upcoming', and 'Later'. I currently try and use 'sections' to organize my tasks a little better, but I'd love if I could sort of rename those 'Today', 'Upcoming' and 'Later' sections and add additional ones so I can collapse and hide tasks that I know I'm not currently going to be working on. I have a lot of other 'sections' I like to organize my tasks under, such as 'Design', 'Development', or 'Waiting on client', 'In Progress', 'Follow Up', etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana really helps team members stay organized and helps other team members know what's on a certain team member's plate. With traditional email, you have no way of knowing exactly how much a person has on their plate at any given moment. You also can't really get a sense of where exactly a project is. With Asana, you can have everything in one place and solve all of those problems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can use Asana for free at any time, so give it a try and see if you like it. I feel that with any type of task/project management system that's the only way you're going to know if it's going to work for you. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Good Product
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a good task management and communication tool for teams. It is great at helping teams collaborate on different projects while managing who can view and have input on them. It allows for great opportunities to give feedback and updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have different teams it can be hard to track projects or rather being sure who are looking at the correct team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it with our communications team. They create graphic designs and other promotional products and marketing tools. This has allowed us to see how they are doing on projects, what needs to be started, and gives other a chance to provide input.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a great collaborative task manager with a clean and easy workflow this is the product for you!
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