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Fantastic project management tool - everything you need in one place!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how tactile the interface is, you can choose from a variety of different set ups (boards like Trello, lists, etc.) It's really easy to colour code and customize - you can assign to people and visually see who is in charge of what. It's the best!
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of the features that I would love (tasks depending on other tasks, templates) are in the paid version, which is understandable. It's quite a robust tool at the free level, and I'm not prepared to upgrade to the paid version yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping myself, my team and my clients on task during projects. Ensuring that nothing slips through the cracks!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's free so try it out! There are lots of different ways to use it - find what works best for you! My favourite hack is syncing the deadlines with your calendar!
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It's a great organisation tool but doesn't quite do everything we need it to
What do you like best about the product?
Asana became roughly 100 times more useful to me after they introduced the Trello style project boards (why wasn't I using Trello to begin with I hear you cry? Probably a good question...), as I was able to use it effectively to share project timelines with clients in an easy to understand visual format.
What do you dislike about the product?
With multiple projects in there everything quickly gets clumped up together and I found that things were getting lost easily, if you try and use it to document everything you very quickly end up with a big admin task to complete. It would be nice if there was a slicker way to mark projects as complete (such as specifying a 'complete' column on the project boards which automatically marked them)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an agency we were a bit haphazard with our task management so Asana brought some order to that.
Colorful and Fun! But Functionally... Eh
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoyed the design of Asana. I felt it was well-laid out, fairly easy to use, and quick to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
I tried to use Asana to do a great many things, none of which the program could complete. In no way is this program meant to analyze any of the data that you put through it; it is simply an a-to-b project management tool. Do not try to create KPIs or measure growth or design based on the tags that Asana uses to track things from a-to-b, because it does not have any kind of data aggregation based on tags.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We briefly used Asana to rout and maintain projects at my place of work. Initially it was a very strong tool for keeping track of who-gets-what-and-how, identifying projects in different work areas, and making sure a proper flow was executed. We soon developed a reasonable system for categorizing and tracking, but that is right where the functionality of the project stops. No look-back data analysis can be performed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If ALL YOU NEED is something to track and manage the flow of project materials, then Asana will be a good tool for you. If you need it to do ANYTHING else - to look back at the projects completed and analyze the number of specific tags you've used, or compare finished to unfinished projects, or run any kind of analytics - then stay away. It doesn't do that. Asana categorizes and manages projects. It doesn't do data.
Excellent Tool for any size team
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is the best tool I've used for task management, particularly when it comes to documentation. So often things are lost in emails, and here everything is recorded so it is easy to refer back to things.
What do you dislike about the product?
There aren't things I necessarily dislike, but I think there are improvements that could be made to take it to another level. Adding "assignee" would be a big one, as well as being able to assign a task to a team and not necessarily an individual.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Task management and cross-functional team communication. We use this to better communicate not only within our teams, but to assign tasks outside of our team and communicate deadlines in one place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Train your team so everyone is using it in the same way. I think this goes for every technology though, but setting a standard so no one gets lost in the many subtasks or projects will help everyone adopt quickly and effectively.
Useful team project tool but has some kinks
What do you like best about the product?
I like how organized the system helps you to be - it keeps a record of your projects and tasks, allows for collaboration and communication
What do you dislike about the product?
Often times I get tasks that duplicate for no reason and there is no way to save aspects of a project or tasks for future reference if you're not the project owner. It would be nice if time tracking was fully integrated...they have a plug in but it's not useful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it for freelance work to manage projects, deadlines, and communicate with my peers
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great tool for collaborating
The best task management app
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity and the variety of features makes the app easy to use. The clean UI makes adding and managing tasks easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it gets too cluttered to use the app. For example, whenever a recurring task is added, it gets confusing to organize it according to the due date.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team management for research work. The benefits are regular up-to date progress of team members and monitoring the tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can use it both for small as well as large teams. But the true power of Asana is revealed when large teams handle multiple projects.
Email is a terrible way to manager your projects
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is the email killer. It puts everything in context of a task or conversation, give complete transparency to who is doing what, but has privacy too, if needed. Do you ever get added to an email and it doesn't have the original attachment? Or how about the double email, opps forgot the attachment. How about an email about X and a subject line that says Y. No more with asana, context is king and managing a task or project in context kills it every time.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike about asana, and I'm being completely honest. Maybe the search could be better, but its 10x better than Outlook, so it's pretty hard to complain about it being a weakness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We manage all our projects in asana and our problem was we would be requests for creative tasks via email and a google form. Then we had to manage each one individually, without being able to see status of each. We use asana for all of that and have visiability.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Stop managing work by email, use a project tool with an app for your device.
Excellent Project Management Software
What do you like best about the product?
We have used Asana for the tracking and planning of all sorts of projects - from IT delivery & development to managing teams of people on location doing surveys. Asana is extremely flexible and through the use of tags, custom fields and views can be configured to look and work whatever way you like.
The collaboration functions between teams and individuals is excellent and relatively simple integration with email via a project email addresses makes tracking and logging of progress and discussion simple.
Task creation and tracking is simple and effective with a very nice UI and UX. Status updates on projects are central and simple making it easy to keep on top of multiple projects.
The recent addition to Asana of end dates for tasks and dependencies between them is very welcome as is the increasing number of projects templates available.
Again lots of API integrations are available between Asana and many other software packages.
The collaboration functions between teams and individuals is excellent and relatively simple integration with email via a project email addresses makes tracking and logging of progress and discussion simple.
Task creation and tracking is simple and effective with a very nice UI and UX. Status updates on projects are central and simple making it easy to keep on top of multiple projects.
The recent addition to Asana of end dates for tasks and dependencies between them is very welcome as is the increasing number of projects templates available.
Again lots of API integrations are available between Asana and many other software packages.
What do you dislike about the product?
The flexibility of the product is one of its main strengths but also one of the things that can cause problems if you are not strict about how you set up projects.
Reporting on development KPIs has not been easy to set up.
Reporting on development KPIs has not been easy to set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Asana to manage projects of differing types with people in many different locations.
It is an excellent product for helping us deliver as planned.
It is an excellent product for helping us deliver as planned.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a very flexible product and can be made to work for most setups.
Asana is Great for Collaborations & Project Organization
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is one of the best collaboration and project organization tools I've ever used. It's easy to share and contribute to projects and track progress over time. You can also keep track of multiple projects with different groups of collaborators, and I've even used this interface to keep track of a running personal to-do list. You can also set and manage deadlines. Overall, it's very flexible and intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most complains regarding Asana are in regard to its complexity; some find it less intuitive than others. The only real way to find which category you will fall into is to try it out yourself. There is a little bit of a learning curve, but I've used it now in several different contexts and have never found it to be so complicated that I couldn't figure out how to complete a desired action.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Research project management is the main task delegated to Asana from an institutional perspective. Personally, I have found it useful for creating to-do lists, setting deadlines for individual projects, and tracking deadlines. It's a powerful tool if you're willing to follow the goals you have set! And it's oh-so-satisfying to use the charts on the website to track your progress.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a good project management tool, Asana can serve you well if you bother to learn about all of its features. There are options for delegating tasks, tracking projects, setting due dates, and chatting with collaborators - it's really powerful. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's not too bad if you're looking for a way to manage complex projects; I'd say it's worth the investment.
Copyrights and Project Manager at Music Label and Publishing company
What do you like best about the product?
I like how clean it looks, very user friendly. It has a lot of features and links to other apps (i.e. Slack). You can set due dates for tasks and communicate with other team members regarding a specific task.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm still trying to get used to the different viewing templates it has. Also I'm not utilizing the "Dashboard" feature as it seems a little confusing, and time consuming to figure out. I'm sure it's great though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its great to know who is in charge of what, regarding a specific project. You know that things won't slip through the cracks when someone has been assigned to tasks. There can be multiple people following up and commenting - SO much easier than 50 different email threads in your mailbox.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I've used Basecamp with another company, and I prefer Asana! It's much easier to use.
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