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Excellent Project and Task Management Software
What do you like best about the product?
I really like that Asana's free version still has several essential features for effective project management like creating tasks, establishing timelines, sharing files, and tracking progress. Its ability to integrate with other software is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm a huge fan of Evernote for many reasons, but particularly the ability to work offline via its desktop app and also having sync data between devices. I wish Asana had a desktop app for this purpose.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Normally I use Evernote for my task and project management. However, after giving Asana a shot, it helped me tremendously with finishing a final project. I was able to break my project down into manageable tasks, organize them by date, and track my progress to completion.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try out the free version first - it has everything you need if, especially if you are a small organization.
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Can't go wrong
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to create project specific teams. This allows us to assign employees, designers, and even clients to a specific project and not have them in others to keep things completely organized.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing we didn't really like about their current setup is that we have to remember to add individuals to each task for them to receive updates. The way we use Asana if you're in the project you need to be updated for each task. This is more of a usability thing on our end, rather than a dislike on Asana though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We finally found the project management software for our team. The template feature has been a huge plus for our design agency since all of our designs utilize the same process, so we can pre-build templates and just load the template for each new project we receive. This ensures that we don't miss a step when setting up a new project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a careful look at your team size. They bill per user on the same domain name as your account. So each @yourdomain.com email address is considered a "user" in their system. You can, however, have unlimited guests, which are users not on your @yourdomain.com emails.
This web app has drastically improve would function as a development team.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup new tasks, assign tasks to others, create and manage teams. Decent reporting although we haven't used that much. Very robust create of custom projects and custom fields in the task setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
It isn't easy to set a task for a specific time and if you do there are no notifications. However I guess that's not really what this app is targeted for. If you need that use Apple reminders app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
managing and keeping track of development and business tasks across a development team of 4 users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Other solutions we had tried were more individual and team focused leaving many tasks getting lost in the shuffle with everyone kind of doing their own thing. Asana helps keep your team organized and productively on task.
Easy to Use, Helpful for Team Collaborating
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it's super easy to create your own boards however you want, label them appropriately, and they can become templates for projects beyond what I'm currently doing. YouTube has a ton of tutorials to use it in different ways and I think it's very easy to introduce into my routine.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to dislike - if anything, there's almost so much openness that it could use a bit more structure. But once I create the structure myself, it works nicely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communication between myself and team members - we don't have the same office space.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend checking out the YouTube videos of how to create templates and such in Asana. It made it exciting - the work to set it up is a little heavy, but once you get it, it's good.
Great tool that makes project planning easier
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to create task lists or boards; ability to assign tasks to different people; ability to create projects, tasks and subtasks to further breakdown the anatomy of a project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inability to assign multiple people to a task
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As our team moves into a mix of remote and in-office work, Asana makes is easier to keep track of all our projects and everyone's unique role in them. It is also a great way to keep people in the loop without having a ton of meetings and eating up valuable work time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great product of anyone looking to streamline their project management and keep their team in the loop and on-task without wasting time with a ton of meetings. You can plot out entire long-term projects from start to finish and assign different members to different tasks, which makes it a great way to see the whole picture of a project while also making sure that every detail is accounted for.
Asana: Task manager and team collaboration made easy
What do you like best about the product?
At first sight, Asana can look over complicated and intimidate with all those options on the same page. In fact, after a couple of days, I found it very easy to work with and handy to follow the progress of our software development projects. I like most the conversation tab and task comments that really drop down our email exchanges. On the free version, you can work really comfortable.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is just a project manager. No CRM, no clients records. I have to use a separate CRM and match the info of the client. The client is part of any project and the main contact should be there and see the progress of his project.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better work quality on our projects and better communication between members of our different teams: marketing, design, programming.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for project management and task assignment. Very good team communication. Use the Free version to start with and get used to it and upgrade when/if you need it.
Been using Asana for over 4 years, for a variety of purposes
What do you like best about the product?
The overall concept within Asana for tracking tasks within Projects is similar. Over the past year they have added new features for a Card Board versus a List Board, as well as other premium-only features, such as task dependencies.
During the past 4 years, I've used Asana for a variety of purposes, such as: software project management, kanban board, tracking interview candidates through the hiring process, tasks for new employee onboarding, managing tasks for planning an event, and tracking sales leads / customer relationship management. Although using the system for some of these purposes includes a little more manual effort than other systems, which might be specialized in these related area, the cost-savings of Asana out-weighs the cost of purchasing subscriptions for other systems.
During the past 4 years, I've used Asana for a variety of purposes, such as: software project management, kanban board, tracking interview candidates through the hiring process, tasks for new employee onboarding, managing tasks for planning an event, and tracking sales leads / customer relationship management. Although using the system for some of these purposes includes a little more manual effort than other systems, which might be specialized in these related area, the cost-savings of Asana out-weighs the cost of purchasing subscriptions for other systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
With one of the recent feature enhancements, why can't I toggle the same list of tasks between a list view and a card board view?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compared to the use-case list previously mentioned (software project management, kanban board, tracking interview candidates through the hiring process, tasks for new employee onboarding, managing tasks for planning an event, and tracking sales leads / customer relationship management), I'm currently using Asana primarily for tracking sales leads.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The system has an open, transparent philosophy - in other words, there isn't a strict permissions control system within projects.
Asana helps manage and simplify the work flow. Initiates more team work!
What do you like best about the product?
I love Asana's simple and modern layout, creating fluidity between tasks. It's easy to set up, get people on board with the system, and it's pretty straight forward. AND yet there are so many little shortcuts, that you can become an Asana wizard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I would say about Asana is that there should be a few more visuals. Sometimes the board can be boring to look at I get distracted with other sites when I should be staying on task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana makes it easy to clearly lay out who is completing what and it updates everyone when tasks are completed. It totally cuts out having to bug a co-worker to see if they've finished so you can start your work, and now, you just wait for the update. And you can even nudge them if they need to hurry up!
It cuts out a lot of unnecessary emails that can flood your inbox. I love being able to pick and choose who is attached to a project so that they all are on the same page.
It cuts out a lot of unnecessary emails that can flood your inbox. I love being able to pick and choose who is attached to a project so that they all are on the same page.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take your time to learn the shortcuts in Asana and you will be able to flow through tasks on time and organized. You can learn how to input tasks on-the-go from your email, but the app is also a huge help for my team. We can be busy and still stay connected and on the same page with a project.
Asana is for All.
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a great solutions from all-sized teams who manage any number of functions. Solutions get as simple as basic task management and as robust as full project communications support and status reporting.
Hands down, my favorite feature is the at-a-glance team tasks view that allows me to efficiently develop project timelines based on existing schedules.
Hands down, my favorite feature is the at-a-glance team tasks view that allows me to efficiently develop project timelines based on existing schedules.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana is so flexible that it is sometimes a bit overwhelming for new users who haven't gotten a sense for how to organize their projects. Other than that, my complaints are nonexistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage a nonprofit communications team and use Asana for project management across several projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I can promise you that if you're looking for a project management tool, Asana is for you. Specific need or industry doesn't matter. Asana can do it all!
Great Task Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is a slick way to bring your sticky-note to-do list into the 21st century. Erase your whiteboard, throw away the post-its cluttering your desk, and ditch the Microsoft Word "weekly to-do" document and commit to a better way of doing things. Asana helps me stay personally organized, and facilitates team conversations, document sharing, and task following that keeps me apprised and on the cutting edge of what's happening around me.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana is an excellent task manager, but some on my team have argued it is not a complete project management solution. While I agree, I think the flexibility Asana offers to organize and manage projects the way you want makes up for this. And with an ever-growing list of add-ons available, you can pretty much accomplish anything you would want from within this platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our entire department switched from Basecamp to Asana, and this has helped us centralize conversations, tasks and documents in one place and provide a collaborative portal that is a shared point of reference. I don't get emails from my boss anymore, everything goes through Asana.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Every team has its own way of organizing and thinking through projects, so the great thing about Asana is that it makes room for this variation. Take time to think through its feature and how they can work best for you, and then just get started trying something. You can always adjust your usage and team conventions later down the road. But remember, it won't be useful unless you and your entire team commit to using it.
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