Seamless Visualizations and Organized Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
The platform offers seamless visualization through dynamic timelines, allows for organized management of customer request forms, and facilitates direct communication regarding specific tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
An excessive number of notifications can quickly become overwhelming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana optimizes project delivery by reducing unnecessary emails, ensuring that campaign milestones are met on time, and providing complete transparency into the team's actual progress.
Effortlessly Easy to Use
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and I find it great for organizing my projects
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to pay to access most features,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing our upcoming content on a month to month basis
Keeps Me Focused and Organized Every Day
What do you like best about the product?
Asana helps me organize my monthly tasks, which allows me to stay focused every day.
What do you dislike about the product?
To review and complete your daily checklist, you must use either a computer or a mobile app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All my clients are able to view their daily tasks that we manage for them, which helps clarify which tasks have been completed and which are still pending.
Essential for Collaborative Project Management
What do you like best about the product?
I like using Asana to stay on top of our projects and client management without needing to have meetings to update. The ability to collaborate with the team and manage projects is great. It's also nice how Asana lets multiple people manage our clients and communicate effectively. Assigning tasks when needed is straightforward. The initial setup for Asana was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have no issues so far other than the pricing for small businesses needing HIPAA compliance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Asana to stay on top of projects and client management without needing meetings, and it lets our team communicate and assign tasks easily.
Effortless Collaboration and Organization Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
It helps me organize my work and to collaborate with my colleagues and also with external partners. It's really easy to use, highly flexible when it comes to adding or changing values or fields for tickets and I also like that you can add absolutely anybody free of charge as External collaborator, and that it also always reminds you via eMail about ticket status updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really don't like the way Asana is pushing people to subscribe to a higher tier. Also i dislike the pricing policy, it is really expensive, when having plenty of people in the system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to organize work and track projects. It solves the communication problems we do have at work.
Effortless UI and Seamless Sync Across Devices
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of using UI and perfect synchronous software.
Also available on Android app which enhances multi utility
What do you dislike about the product?
Only in my task section they need to sort based on due date, priority and provide more refined sub task
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides best task management and better written communication for inter departmental actions.
Intuitive Project Management with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Asana's intuitive interface and customizable workflows, which make seamless task tracking possible for agriculture projects or web development. The AI-powered automations, real-time progress views, and integrations notably boost collaboration efficiency. With its timeline and rules, Asana saves time on complex schedules like soil trials. I find the initial setup straightforward with guided onboarding, templates, and videos, allowing quick account creation and project starts in minutes. Asana pairs seamlessly with other tools like Slack and Google Workspace, enhancing efficiency without creating silos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana's single-assignee-per-task limit frustrates teams needing multi-person collaboration, forcing duplicate tasks. The interface overwhelms for simple projects, lacks native time tracking without premium upgrades, and customer support often delays resolutions. Pricing feels misleading with hidden costs for key features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Asana for central project management and task-tracking. It organizes project planning and deadline setting, enhancing productivity and accountability. Task dependencies, timelines, and integrations like Slack boost collaboration and efficiency.
Task tracking has streamlined sprint work but complex navigation still needs simplification
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Asana at my company is that it serves as our task management software. We use Asana to track our targets, tasks, sprints, and everything related to our project workflow. We use Asana for planning sprints and also keeping track of how the tasks are being done.
In a typical sprint or project, when we have a sprint planning meeting or discussion, after that meeting, our team leaders and management personnel go ahead and add the tasks to Asana. We review them to determine what we have to do, and we provide estimates. They check the estimates and add them to Asana. After that, we mainly use Asana as our tracking tool, and Asana usually notifies us when a task is due. We work on those tasks, mark them complete, and whenever we mark them complete, the next team will pick them up if there are any other work needed. Asana also has features such as task blocking, which helps us to have a good idea of what is happening in the company.
About how I use Asana in my work, if we sometimes forget a task, Asana will notify us that we have an overdue task. It will send an email and a notification. In that way, we can make sure nothing is missed.
What is most valuable?
In my opinion, the best features Asana offers are task management and the options it has, such as blocking tasks, adding subtasks, stages, and comments. Those features are really useful for a company like ours.
Out of those features such as subtasks, stages, and comments, I find myself using subtasks the most. Whenever I start a project or get a task in our working field, there is no guarantee that the task will be very simple. Sometimes it can lead to multiple dependencies and multiple other things that we have to do in order to get the task done. Rather than showing it as a single task, the ability to add multiple subtasks into it gives us an ability to show that these things should be done in order to get this main thing done. I am working on this thing, and it will show that as a separate task. That is a really useful feature.
Regarding the task blocking feature, it is also important. If our work is blocked due to someone else's work, such as someone else not having completed a task and because of this we cannot start our task, Asana offers blocking options. There are start-to-end blocks, end-to-end blocks, end-to-start blocks, and start-to-start blocks. Asana has all of these and we can configure them. The other person who is blocking my task will also see that because they have not done their part, I have a blocked task. They will be prompted to work on it immediately. Those situations are very helpful in Asana.
Asana has impacted my organization positively because it manages all the task management. It acts as our task manager. It has saved a lot of time and made things very efficient. We do not have to call other people and ask how something is going or how long they need to complete a task. We do not have to contact everyone to see who is working on something. Asana has everything we need and presents it in a clear view. It has really made our organization very efficient.
What needs improvement?
Asana's UI is a little bit too complex for me. Sometimes I get confused. Sometimes I mis-navigate. Asana is a very complicated product, but if it could offer a different kind of UI for different types of people, that would be better. This UI is good for a power user, but for a normal user who just comes to see what their tasks are, a simplified UI would be more appropriate.
Sometimes the navigation is a little bit clunky. Sometimes I click back on things that I do not want to click back on. Everything else is good, and the UI is the only part that I see could use a little bit of improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Asana for eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Asana is stable. The only time that we have seen a downtime in Asana was during the AWS major outage. We cannot blame Asana for that, as it was an AWS fault. Other than that, it has been completely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Asana's scalability is pretty good because it is cloud-hosted and I know companies with thousands of employees use it. It is pretty scalable. For our requirement, our company is a startup with less than 50 employees, so scalability is not a problem for us. Based on what I have heard, Asana is pretty scalable.
What was our ROI?
In terms of specific outcomes or metrics showing how Asana has improved efficiency or saved time for my team, one thing is that most of the projects that we collaborate on are available to all of us. Previously, people were sending conversations on our company channels or internal communication media, talking about things through long email threads. Currently, we just go ahead and whenever we complete a task, we mark it complete in Asana. If there are any findings or anything else that other people need to know, we put them as comments. Other people will get notifications and they can come and check it. This has saved a lot of hours, especially for developers. They do not need to tell everything out loud. They just have to go and update Asana. This has made their life very easy because developers are people who do not like to talk a lot. So in that regard, this is saving a lot of time.
Because of Asana, we are not having sprint planning meetings very much. That alone has saved us about 10 hours per week. I would estimate that Asana has saved my team around 30 hours per month.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I chose seven out of 10 because previously, I have used a similar product called ClickUp and it has a lot more features. It has chat functionality and document storage built-in. ClickUp is basically a combination of Asana, Slack, and Notion. It is offering a lot of things. Asana is only for project management. If Asana had other features baked in, it might have reduced the need for going to another product for that purpose. Its features are not limited in scope. In the project management scope, it is perfect, but another product can be integrated to it to make sure things are well connected.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Asana is to use it. Whenever someone new joins who does not have experience in Asana, maybe give them a proper introduction or show them some videos because Asana can be too much for a beginner who is starting up. Just guide them on how to use it. I would rate this review a seven out of 10.
Effortless Setup for Teams, Projects, and Portfolios
What do you like best about the product?
I like ow easy it was to set-up teams, projects and protfolios.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a dislike about the product, but their initial sales process was very slow. We were ready to buy and they wouldn't send on the document and invoice. Took then at least 4-5 days
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us project manage team and cross-functional projects all in one place. Removing friction between teams and allowing execs to see all projects and their progress in one place
Organizational Gem with Pricing Caveats
What do you like best about the product?
I use Asana for project management because it helps with timeline tracking and organization. I particularly like the organization feature, as it allows me to set deadlines and communicate easily with teammates. Everything lives in specific projects, so there's no need to try to find old messages about topics, which makes it incredibly convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that lots of additional items are only available after the 'starter' account option. There needs to be more advertising or communication on how the accounts past the starter are helpful, or at least remove options to those additional items on our starter account.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps with timeline tracking and organization. It aids in setting deadlines and makes communication with teammates easy, keeping everything in specific projects, so I don’t need to search for old messages.
