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Great Email Replacement for Task Management
What do you like best about the product?
I love the modern, intuitive interface. It's incredibly easy to use and setup, so there's basically no implementation. I do enjoy the templates offered, or the ability to create your own templates. It's pretty, easy, and fairly inexpensive. As cheesy as this sounds, it's actually kind of fun and pretty to work inside of asana... which makes you want to use it more often.
What do you dislike about the product?
There could be a bit more robust functionality, but for marketing project management... it gets the job done. I would like more functionality around subtasks, I think the organization and labeling of subtasks is lacking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management for marketing. It's great as replacing email for managing various tasks.
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Simplified Task and Project Management
What do you like best about the product?
The simple and intuitive interface is its strongest feature. I love the flexibility within the task creation functions and the ability to create custom fields. While we mainly use Asana for projects it is an equally effective meeting agenda tool and the fact that you can assign a task to multiple agendas (projects) helps to ensure that items are discussed with all relevant parties while cutting down on email.
What do you dislike about the product?
I appreciate the simplicity, but a more robust feature set around document creation and management as well as built-in time tracking would be very helpful. The current method of attaching files to projects is not well organized and creates version control issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to execute projects faster while delivering better results (isn't everybody). Asana helps us accomplish this by providing a detailed dashboard via google sheets that easily identifies projects at risk of "getting stuck" so we can better prioritize resources and stay on track. Creating regular operational routines to provide updates via the project progress communication feature has greatly helped stakeholders stay connected to projects while minimizing the need to coordinate status meetings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you give your teams time to adopt certain features on their own schedule. Start simply and slowly with minimal regulation or standardization. Be available and enthusiastic to provide support and don't be afraid to test different approaches before determining what practices are truly "leading".
Decent Project Managment System
What do you like best about the product?
Asana has worked pretty well for our company and applying the Scrum/Agile method. The team dashboard allows you to see what stage a project is in making it easier for Project Managers to keep track of progress.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just from past systems I have used, it would be nice to at least be able to set up a project that say once a copywriter has completed the copy and checked off the task, I am then notified to begin the next step of the project. Right now, it's heavy on having the PM come in and then create a task and assign accordingly. Causes a little bit of inefficiencies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to stay organized with using Scrum/Agile. Very visual based.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your research and figure out what the best project management system is for your company.
Project Management -Light
What do you like best about the product?
I love how light and easy Asana is to for non PM's on our teams to use. We have other PM software we use for more extensive PM work, that entails extensive collaboration and resource tracking but Asana fills the gap between Slack and those platforms. Its a light, easy to use platform to gather early stage info for projects that will soon live in other PM tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its hard to say what I don't like given we're not trying to 'replace' our other platforms, so I don't want to fault it for something it's not trying to be for 'my' teams. In general, better templates -for those PM newbies, and clearer definitions for due dates, on sub task. Permissions control could be nice for lighter teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Platform to fill the gap between Slack and our robust PM platform, as mentioned above things would lost in the cracks between on the fly conversations in Slack about possible project XYZ, because certain (non PM's) wouldn't want to create a project on our main platform while gather requirements,.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't expect Asana to replace a robust PM platform, but for light 'Task' style PM its the best in it's class, hands down.
Good tool but a little confusing
What do you like best about the product?
The general layout and ability to drag items into different locations on the screen is very nice. The ability to assign tasks, projects and how all the information, emails, documents, etc is associated with the item is great. Email alerts are handy as usual and it has a nice look and feel
What do you dislike about the product?
The related tasks and projects can cause a bit of sprawl and become challenging to manage. If I am a member of a task, and not the one it is assigned to, I get a lot of unwanted messages. Would be nice to be able to turn that down or off.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team has a very fluid schedule and this helps us keep up to date on assignments, who is going where and update the status on projects as they progress through the different departments. Asana is a pretty good way to keep our small corner of the business organized and all of us on the same page. We are able to keep track of locations and progress from a single dashboard
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Asana is a good team management tool . It has nice add-ins for Outlook, Apple, and Google. Well worth the look
Asana's Versatility and Structure Keeps Us Organized
What do you like best about the product?
Admittedly, Asana was not my first choice in task management, but the recent updates and iterations to the platform have really helped myself and my team streamline our projects. It helps to see what kind of tasks we have outstanding and definitely gives us a boost in dopamine when we check off finished tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface, while vastly improved from a few years ago, is still not as highly intuitive for some people. I can see how other people would become disgruntled using Asana.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping our business tasks in one place -- it has helped us keep our projects organized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Watch their tutorial videos and ask other more avid Asana users how they use their Asana platform.
Simple, great for complex projects
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it's a simple concept and easy to use. It's essentially a way better version of a simple task list. It's simple interface of just typing in the task to do, setting a due date, and a person responsible makes me more likely to use it every day. There are advanced features that make this more powerful when used by all.
What do you dislike about the product?
The notification settings are a little difficult to customize. When you first get your account, it can feel like an "all or nothing" situation with the notifications. You either get notified constantly or not at all. It is time-consuming to customize your notification for each project. Our team has 30+ projects. It's unreasonable to think that top-level people on the teams will do this, which ultimately means less buy-in across the team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're running large-scale higher education events by planning in Asana. We are able to be very transparent about everyone's task list and how they are keeping up-to-date on responsibilities. Also, we are able to eliminate a lot of team emails. We no longer need to email each other to ask someone to do something. We just put it in Asana.
Simple and Easy for non techies to use
What do you like best about the product?
The way that Asana allows you to group your lists, conversations, per project I have found to be so much easier to manage than a product like Trello
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that you can't cut and paste an image into the conversation and instead have to upload it. Allowing us to drop a screen capture in would be a great enhancement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a consultant working with different companies and projects this allows me and the customer to see what is being done and I can more easily organize conversations than I can in email
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a free tool that integrates with Slack this is it. You won't regret it. I really love how you can keep your conversations under the project. It makes it so easy to manage thoughts and back and forth.
Aesthetically beautiful project management
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate that the program is simplistic and beautiful in design. It is a mostly user-friendly program that allows colleagues to work together towards completion of projects, even though they may not be in the same location.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although it is lovely to look at and simplistically designed, it took me quite awhile to get used to and understand the interface. It good just be that when I was added to the team I was already enlisted in several Asana teams, meaning I had quite a few tabs and projects listed, but it was overwhelming at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our leadership and equity team is able to organize our initiatives, projects and progress towards meeting our goals. Projects can be assigned to individuals or groups, who receive notifications reminding them of their due dates for completion.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great place to organize work projects and initiatives and keep everyone on the same page.
Quick & User-Friendly Project Management
What do you like best about the product?
Asana makes communication between team members virtually effortless. I like that you can @ different users in something like a comment or subtask. Overall, Asana has boiled project management down to its simplest form. I've used (and currently use) other project management tools. Asana is, by far, the simplest and most streamlined one I've come across.
What do you dislike about the product?
Files aren't displayed prominently enough within the tasks. I find myself sifting through sub tasks and former comments more than I'd like to. This can be a hassle for any team, but especially ones that use a lot of graphics and imagery in their projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our customers need physical proof of their purchase as fast as possible. We use Asana to communicate with our fulfillment partners, ensuring that customers receive their proof of purchase in a timely, consistent manner. As far as benefits I've realized? I'd say the satisfaction of finishing a task, clicking check and watching it vanish into the shiny blue ether.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you've got the budget and you're looking for extremely easy and user-friendly project management software, Asana could be a good choice. The only caveat - if your projects involve lots of imagery and graphics, there are better tools out there. Files can get easily lost in the shuffle if you don't pay close attention. Otherwise, it's ridiculously easy to create tasks, manage workflows and coordinate with your team, whether they're in the building or across the country -- with Asana.
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