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Asana is a critical part of our working day
What do you like best about the product?
It's task focused. Each team member can see what tasks they have open and when it's due and it is this view that orders our team's day.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the alerting for overdue tasks was better. It's more of a manual review process to see what's open.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an IT firm so at any given time we have 100 to 200 open tasks which fold into 5-7 ongoing project. Without Asana we would would not have a meaningful way to organize, assign and schedule all the related tasks. Our team works in Asana throughout the day, adding, completing, and commenting on various tasks. The task focus enables are our team to work systematically through open items. Fewer things fall through the cracks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely give it a try. If your team is task and due date focused then Asana is your tool. It's simple to adopt. Has a clean interface. It leaves off many of the bells and whistles of other project management tools, but most of those are simply noise anyway. Asana will show you what and when something is do. If you have the discipline to log EVERYTHING in there, and your team commits to it, you will start to get more work done with greater efficiency and speed.
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Love using Asana for project management
What do you like best about the product?
I love that through Asana we have the ability to set up projects with specific tasks and deadlines for each member of the team. We use Asana for each of our marketing clients in order to keep their contracts in order and keep track of tasks that need to be completed for them. The ability to mark tasks as done and only see remaining tasks is awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that you have to pay to use custom templates. I feel like the other paid advantages are worth paying for, but the custom templates should be free, even if you only get 2 or 3 free ones.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps my team to keep our office organized and keep track of what we need to do on a day-to-day basis. We have realized benefits in our everyday organization and in ensuring that none of our tasks get forgotten about.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Begin your organization early, if you have too many unorganized projects it can stack up on you. But Asana can be great for setting up projects for multiple clients and keeping everything organized. We have had a much easier time ensuring that none of our tasks get forgotten about.
Great, simple interface, clean task, team and project management
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is intelligent enough to manage your projects and tasks, and only as intrusive as you set it up to be. We have weekly summary emails, and reminders on days where tasks are required.
The interface is clean an uncluttered, yet there is enough depth in functionality to manage complex projects, with subtasks and categories.
The interface is clean an uncluttered, yet there is enough depth in functionality to manage complex projects, with subtasks and categories.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would love to be able to assign tasks to multiple team members.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiple complex client and project management - it has kept us focussed and 'on-task' and enabled us to schedule tasks realistically.
Simple tracking and collaboration on free version
What do you like best about the product?
straight forward and clean interface, has task dependency
basics there; keep a task list, collaborate with colleagues, email to projects, upload files, calendar
Task details can be handled in comments, tagging etc
Good for simple work management, I'm using it for my private day to day projects (with a small p).
basics there; keep a task list, collaborate with colleagues, email to projects, upload files, calendar
Task details can be handled in comments, tagging etc
Good for simple work management, I'm using it for my private day to day projects (with a small p).
What do you dislike about the product?
Simple swings both ways; the single task list is a big limitation. Even BaseCamp's multiple task lists sometimes seem limiting to complex project work. Tried to get around it by tagging tasks with categories, but that didn't get me there
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manage simple projects, store project info in a structured way
Tracking Projects Was Never This Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to use multiple levels for a project down to the task level. Interaction is available not only in the app, but also via emails tied to the app. "The mobile app is excellent and allows Asana to function as the central point of our projects. We keep all our data there from the moment an agreement is signed until completion.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like any collaborative space, someone has to be in charge and willing to set rules for the way the organization uses the product. That's more of an org issue, but it's related to how any collaboration can effectively occur. Our org does great with Asana. I watched someone at a client try to get buy-in from others and eventually stop the project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is one place for assignments and interaction regarding tasks. When something comes up on a phone call or during any sort of contact, we'll immediately say "Put it in Asana". We even have a bucket list of projects and tasks that we want to keep centralized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Test with 2 or 3 users first and see how the software fits your organization. We had an easy time, but we saw another user fail after they didn't pre-plan and couldn't get buy-in. I tested it with another person and then we rolled out to a remote team.
Keeps me on track, even when I'm juggling competing priorities
What do you like best about the product?
It's hard to choose just one thing. I really enjoy the clean feel to the dashboards, and how it's easy to see see so much information all in one space. I particularly like how I can add files to tasks - this has kept my desktop from being home to all of the files that I haven't had time to sort through yet!
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much comes to mind here - I generally keep Asana open all day long on my second monitor, and would be somewhat lost without it!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm always working on multiple projects that often have overlapping deadlines. Asana has helped me break these projects into clear, well-defined tasks. I've found on multiple occasions that when I build a project in Asana, it keeps me honest! It also keeps me from inadvertently skipping a step or two (a natural born project manager I am not). One benefit I hadn't expected is that Asana has helped me refine the processes I use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
My recommendation would be to try Asana out and really get your hands dirty, so to speak. I was somewhat skeptical about yet another project management tool, but I'm well and truly converted! One of the things that I really like about Asana is how it enables all of the members of your team to engage with it - a number of the past tools I've used have been owned by the PM exclusively, and other team members have only had the ability to view information.
Good organization with Asana
What do you like best about the product?
I like how flexible Asana is, and how you can kind of customize how you use it based on your needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you know how YOU use Asana, someone else may be using it VERY differently, so there could be confusion if two of those ways collide for any reason.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes task organization much easier, especially when you are able to ASSIGN tasks. It helps a lot with accountability.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend getting your own system of organization down for using Asana, and communicating it well so it is consistent across your team.
Great resource for small non-profit
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy that I am able to track my team's progress on projects and use it to delegate tasks as needed. It helps keep work moving smoothly when working with mostly volunteers. Ease of use is also important and there are no issues with understanding this application from myself or my team.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the free version allowed more users since we have more than 15 people who could be using the application but have to limit it to people with the most important roles or the most active people. We cannot afford a paid membership at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to better keep track of the progress of important tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Figure out the best way to break up tasks. I recommend tasks that take 1-2 hours and them add them to Asana. If they are taking longer or shorter amounts of time your productivity will hurt. Breaking tasks in the app to 1-2 hours helped our agency be most effective.
For an anti-task manager user, I like Asana
What do you like best about the product?
The top two features available in Asana is nested tasks and drag/drop functionality. It also auto-integrates with a lot of other platforms like Slack. Honestly, you can do quite a bit already with IFTTT but I feel more comfortable with the built-in integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice if the things labeled (like projects or tasks) give more direction on what should be included. I've had plenty of managers and team members misuse the product because they don't know when to use certain elements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana helps bring together teams that telecommunicate and don't meet physically regularly. It also helps keep track of all tasks big and small. It also lets you update external parties on their tasks statuses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
YOU MUST TRAIN YOUR EMPLOYEES. Asana is great and powerful but if you don't teach your employees to use it, it will fail. Also, make sure your ADMINS know how to use it properly.
My first time using a project management system
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the flow of all of the boards, and how the tasks were able to move across the board to different stages. I also like it's simplicity, and ease of use: you can just click and type, no need to click and then click an edit button. Also, I like that there's an overview of your assigned tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the little to no integration to tasks being completed by a merge request on some kinda of version control repository. I see you can just add a comment with a linked url, but I think it'd be better to reference a merge request number.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was just purely used as a project management for our planning documents, because of its lack in github integration to tie tasks with merge requests.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think this would be a better product of you offered more integration with outside resources than it just being a simple project management tool. It's nice ease in use, but I feel like it's lacking in actual tracking abilities. I only say this, because my group ended up just switching to GitLab completely, because of issue tracking that can be used as project management tool.
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