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Fast and getting better all the time
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is simple and flexible, with many ways to view tasks and progress, including on a calendar, board, list, or gantt-like timeline. It's very easy to quickly work through many tasks without leaving the keyboard. No doubt Asana will always be beautiful and and fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest challenge is finding a consistent workflow that your team can depend on over time.
The free feature set is nice enough, and it's great that they offer it for up to 15 users, but the for those small teams that need to plan even moderately complex projects, the leap to Premium or Business is substantial--$120/user/year is asking a lot for a single piece of software for a small team, especially billed annually.
Further, the product is evolving so much that features are often teased or released as free and then repackaged later as premium features.
The free feature set is nice enough, and it's great that they offer it for up to 15 users, but the for those small teams that need to plan even moderately complex projects, the leap to Premium or Business is substantial--$120/user/year is asking a lot for a single piece of software for a small team, especially billed annually.
Further, the product is evolving so much that features are often teased or released as free and then repackaged later as premium features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We juggle many competing projects and deadlines, so it helps keep everything in one big picture, in a place we can talk about individual tasks as we go along. I prefer this workflow to Slack-like emphasis on chat/email, etc. Asana's prospects for time planning are getting better, but are a bit obfuscated right now.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Decide your workflow in advance and see if you can make Asana fit in a comfortable, natural way before deciding to switch.
Very good for short and quick projects
What do you like best about the product?
Asana offers a good variety of project management features and also has a remarkable list of apps and integrations for additional functionality
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not recommended for large and complex capital projects as it lacks some features which are considered in other well known robust solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Progress Management
Schedule Management
Workforce Management
Project Planning vs. Actual
Cost Management
Budget Management
Workforce Balance
Schedule Management
Workforce Management
Project Planning vs. Actual
Cost Management
Budget Management
Workforce Balance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should consider Asana for quick and short projects. For instance: Agile driven projects, backoffice projects.
Best Tracking Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is user-friendly with interactive graphics. The software is also very easy to navigate through. Secondly, as a manager one is able to monitor the schedule and progress of their employees, which generally helps in time management.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes one some time to learn every feature of the software. Secondly, a manager cannot be able to assign the same task to more than one person.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is very essential in streamlining various business processes and organizing team members to be efficient and manage their time efficiently. There are a few people who are allowed to create tasks. This means that the software will not suit larger organisations with very many supervisors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is an effective tool for project management, makes jobs easier for both the managers and their employees.
Task management made easy
What do you like best about the product?
I love how Asana makes it easy to customize your to-do list, so you can really make the platform work for you. There are so many great features, no aspect of project management was left untouched. I love the sections feature for organizing what tasks I will do when. I also love the inbox feature, as it allows me to check up on new updtes to my tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Asana is quite overwhelming at first and takes a little while to get the hang of. There are a lot of features, which is great when you know how to use them but can overload users at the beginning of use. It would also be beneficial if there was a way to customize the color scheme of Asana, as the colors might seem overwheling to some users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana makes it easy for teams to collaborate on different facets of the same project. It makes assigning tasks extremely easy, so no one is left wondering what they have to do and when. The due date feature makes it extremely easy to get things done on time, and tags help organize even further. Asana is espcially useful for teams with many remote employees, as the ability to assign tasks helps supervisors communicate what tasks need to be done to employees, in office or not.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana makes project management easy! Use this if your team includes several telecommuting employees to make sure everyone stays on track.
Asana let's me communicate tasks with my VA
What do you like best about the product?
I love how i can create repeated tasks -- tasks that remain the same each month. I don't have to go in and recreate the task -- I just schedule it as recurring for any duration of days that I want.
What do you dislike about the product?
Every time I sign in, I forget that I'm in MY dashboard, and not my VA's. Several times now I've created a task and put it on my own dashboard by mistake, and then not realized it until it's past the deadline and I'm wondering where the work is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communicating tasks with a deadline to my VA. I love how I am automatically updated when a task is updated, through email.
Pretty good product, but honestly I find myself reverting to pen and paper for tasks
What do you like best about the product?
I think being able to assign people tasks is helpful. We also get very detailed with the tags we put on for different projects. For example we use it to categorize by which action items get brought up at which meetings. We also use it to be able to communicate about check up calls so everyone is on the same page. I also like the feature of being able to comment on other people's projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you don't have your whole team on the software it doesn't really work since you have to follow up on different channels. We use it mostly for customer support, but I also have marketing responsibilities, so it doesn't work as well for those. Again if you have your entire team on it you're better off.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to plan out long term projects and tasks within our smaller group.We have about 12 people in our team and it definitely makes our processes easier, but we just have to stay on top of keeping it updated.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely make sure your whole team is using it and not just part of your team. It makes a lot of a difference, because if someone is out of the loop it sort of throws the whole thing off. When you get set up make sure every team has their own project and that there isn't too much of an overlap, where things could get confusing.
Intuitive and easy as long as on desktop
What do you like best about the product?
Asana offers you an easy to use project management tool that nearly everybody can get behind and grasp after a couple of minutes use. Other than most "free" tools it does not only offer a very broad managing of tasks but also allows you to go into details with subtasks, links and attachments. As well as deadlines and assignements are possible.
What do you dislike about the product?
It works great as long as you are on a desktop. If you are in sales and have to use it on your phone, while being out with clients - it's horrific. It's just too detailed and you cannot find most things over your phone. You have to use the search function basically ALL.THE.TIME. Thankfully that works quite well for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're connecting two of our locations together with Asana. People can work together closely without being in the same office.
Great platform planning and staying organized
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy working with this product because the platform is easy to work with and easy to teach your team how to use. Most platforms similar to Asana get unorganized quickly when multiple team members start uploading tasks and projects, but Asana gives you multiple options to keep things organized and keep your team working in sync.
What do you dislike about the product?
The emailing of each individual task can be overwhelming, especially when starting a new project. I really wish there was a way to put multiple tasks into the system and have the option to email them to the responsible person with one or multiple tasks listed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using the platform to put together and organize advertising campaigns and strategies for clients. It's been great to work with in this way because it allows team members to see what others are doing or planning to do and have them plug in their thoughts on the fly. Without this option, we'd be wasting time on multiple conference calls per day.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely would recommend this product to anyone working in a team environment. If you're considering Asana, you should take advantage of the free trial to really see how this platform works.
Makes life easier
What do you like best about the product?
Asana is much more comprehensive and easier to navigate than the other solutions my company has tried. The calendar view makes it very simple to keep track of my tasks and when I need to be working on them. And the addition of private tasks that my coworkers can't see means I can also keep track of professional development and other obligations so they all appear on the same calendar.
What do you dislike about the product?
It logs you out a little more frequently than I'd like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Asana allows our Marketing, CX, and Development teams to collaborate on projects and for everyone to be able to see what work is being done. We've reduced overlapping work and improved productivity with Asana.
Asana Makes Collaboration Easier
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes project management and collaboration with internal stakeholders easy. Our teams know who is working on what and how far along we are in the work process.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I don't like about Asana is that I can't upload video files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working for a multifamily company with over 140 properties across ten states can be daunting. Our Marketing Department is constantly working on projects for not only these properties but the corporate brand and sub-brands as well. Simply put, we're constantly working on a lot of projects. Asana is the perfect project management tool to make sure everything gets done in a timely manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a user-friendly, intuitive, project management tool. Take your time to play around with it. There are tons of tutorials to guide your way.
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