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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.
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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.
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!
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
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