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Wasn't for me- too complicated
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can share work tasks within a team, and have different teams for different projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really could not get the hang of this, even after watching the training video and getting a lesson from a coworker. This isn't for me. I much prefer my own internal lists to get things done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I know others on my team like it because it keeps them organized, shows what is outstanding and who's in charge of what. You can see the big picture of the entire project and its to-do's.
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Email Fatigue and Confusion
What do you like best about the product?
the ability to move tasks around, report status, and attach files is fairly straight forward. The ability attach a file and mark it up with comments is great, however the markup tool is extremely limited.
What do you dislike about the product?
The notifications. Everything in Asana sends you an email. It's insane how much email this service generates and how uninviting and confusing/cluttered the user interface is. The markup tool is a nice start, but cannot be enlarged or use PDF files at this time. The markup tool does not allow for images to be rotated or enlarged, which limits a lot of true function. Aside from the promise of the markup tool, this is my least favorite project management experience by far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
None. This service buries my inbox, confuses our team endlessly, and we're only still tied to it because we made such a big push to get it online.
Asana...if you're into that sorta thing.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is great for a particular type of organizational mind. If you're that type, enjoy it to its fullest.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana looks and feels like an emotionless pit of soul crushing tasks that will haunt you until completed. The design team could have truly used more tactical empathy training.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Partners have used Asana to deliver film production notes. This could be very efficient, and at its core, it is. However, the delivery method and experience of Asana is not built for creatives, and therefore, it is polarizing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it to deliver tasks for your team if the tool fits your leadership style.
Not new user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
In theory, it has all of the built in functions I need (task assignment, creation of subtasks with deadlines, attachment of files, etc)
What do you dislike about the product?
The overall design is neither appealing nor efficient. It is not easy to navigate or easily track progress without multiple clicks. It lacks the visual cleanliness of other project management programs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're testing it out to use for project run by the education team but completed by others. At this point, many people are just ignoring it and using their own tracking methods since asana is a pain
Asana review
What do you like best about the product?
You could assign multiple tasks to team members in the program.
What do you dislike about the product?
It was difficult to keep track of assignments and not very user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to organize the project management aspect of the business.
OK, but not great.
What do you like best about the product?
That different tasks could be assigned to different people and could view longitudinal display of tasks completed, past-due, and up-coming.
What do you dislike about the product?
Couldn't adjust timeline (GANNT) view of project to get good look at overall project. Also, didn't see how to view multiple timelines (i.e., for different projects) at the same time to get a good overview of all projects organization (or manager) had under their purview.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing cross-functional virtual teams.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Something to look at and compare to other options - including just Excell, Word, and Powerpoint for tracking and reporting, etc..
Asana is ok if you don't have requirements
What do you like best about the product?
There are some things I like about Asana. I like Asana's Kanban, tags, and the copy and paste of tasks. I like that you can add child tasks. I like there's a calendar associated with each project. I think Asana is starting to build out their software and I think they're listening to their end-users.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is not a mature tool by any means. It's fine if you're using it for yourself but I wouldn't recommend introducing Asana to your team. Why?
1. Notification is all or nothing. You can either turn on notifications or you can't. You can't toggle the notifications.
2. Relying on 3rd party for burndown charts. A lot of software project management includes a burndown chart. Asana uses a third-party app, screenful.me. You have to pay for it and it doesn't give clarity into the project's status.
3. Disjointed projects. You cannot see holistically the status of your projects. This means you have to click inside each one.
4. Struggles talking to 3rd party APIs. For some reason there is an initial sync and then the handshake drops. This happened across multiple APIs.
5. If you've used other mature tools then you'll probably struggle using Asana. It doesn't provide enough clarity or detail to be able to make decisions.
6. Very difficult to prioritize tasks. You can move tasks up and down but that's it. You also can't view tasks and subtasks across a project. You can only view the subtasks if the task is open.
7. No automated workflows. Makes no sense as your team has to remember the process for doing X. If you have a lot of teams this can get messy very quickly.
1. Notification is all or nothing. You can either turn on notifications or you can't. You can't toggle the notifications.
2. Relying on 3rd party for burndown charts. A lot of software project management includes a burndown chart. Asana uses a third-party app, screenful.me. You have to pay for it and it doesn't give clarity into the project's status.
3. Disjointed projects. You cannot see holistically the status of your projects. This means you have to click inside each one.
4. Struggles talking to 3rd party APIs. For some reason there is an initial sync and then the handshake drops. This happened across multiple APIs.
5. If you've used other mature tools then you'll probably struggle using Asana. It doesn't provide enough clarity or detail to be able to make decisions.
6. Very difficult to prioritize tasks. You can move tasks up and down but that's it. You also can't view tasks and subtasks across a project. You can only view the subtasks if the task is open.
7. No automated workflows. Makes no sense as your team has to remember the process for doing X. If you have a lot of teams this can get messy very quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The one business benefit I realized was tool selection criteria needed to be tighter. I wasn't here when Asana was chosen and the tool gets in the way of progress. I inherited the role of admin.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make your PM software selection criteria list tool agnostic. Can't imagine a mature organization ever using this. Might as well use Excel to track your project at this rate.
I’ve tried Asana
What do you like best about the product?
I guess it’s like trello in its visual based so you can see everything you are working on
What do you dislike about the product?
I tend to not use these platforms bc I do not have a team I’m a freelancer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not any honestly I don’t find a need for project management software tho some might bc I honestly use apple notes and my calendar
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Probably better for team use
Good Integration capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
I like the jumping unicorn when I complete a task, but not enough to use this software exclusively for task setting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability to set recurring tasks is no good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrates well with our in-house platform
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use Highrise instead
Good time management missing some important features
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and ability to use mobile devices to track project progress. Free to try. Full featur d one is affordable.
What do you dislike about the product?
No time tracking option to make hourly billing easy. Would really like to link hours to projects to allow for easy billing to clients.
Email goes out to everyone on the team whenever a change is made.
Email goes out to everyone on the team whenever a change is made.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to corrdinate multiple projects across multiple people and track project progress in a manner so that all the people in the office have access to progress.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If your looking for time tracking look elsewhere
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