Considered one of the pioneering cloud-based project management tools, Asana offers four views for its users – List View, Timeline, Calendar, and Boards – all of which help teams get both a macro and micro view of all the moving parts of projects and tasks. It provides a comprehensive roadmap of ongoing projects from start to finish, clearly outlining dependencies, project milestones, and feedback and approval processes. For project managers, strong reporting capabilities that show completion rates, individual workloads, and potential delays just to name a few create opportunities for real-time project optimization, collaboration, stronger forecasting, and better planning for future similar projects.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Asana gives me a sense of calm and focus by letting me see my weekly to-dos in one place, allowing me to stay synced up on large-scale projects, and has become our team's single source of truth for much of what we do. The ability to rely on Asana to keep track of everything we need to accomplish helps me feel focused and organized.
My only dislike is the fact that some of the best features are behind a paywall and there isn't that great of a nonprofit/higher ed discount available with which we could turn on those features. But we manage to make do with the premium tier.
We have created a dashboard using custom tags to track the invoices we process for our admissions office so we can visualize our budget. We have also used this for long-term project management that requires different levels of approval. We also use it for 1:1 meetings so we can keep track of progress toward performance goals and celebrate the achievement of soft goals we achieve.
I love how I can track my work and the work of my colleagues just by checking the collaborators on my tasks and also adding comments to inform them about my workflow and the status of the task. The workflow of each task is always registered and I can always rely on the history of my tasks and board.
I would love if I could create model tasks with subtasks linked with one another. That would help so much with operational tasks that I deal daily. I feel like the 'My Tasks' tab could be organized more visually, just like the 'Inicial Page' tab is.
I think that the best thing with Asana is having the history of each task available at any time. By using the comments, the description and the subtasks I can see all the efforts that involve each task and improve my workflow and of my colleagues as well.
The best thing about Asana is the organization I can do with all the projects, portfolios and tasks. The customization that it has makes my work a lot easier. Of all the softwares I've used, it's by far the best
What I don't like about Asana is nothing, really. It has all the tools that I need and could think of. They keep listening to the community and always improving everything.
Asana helped me organize all my projects and all the tasks my team had to do. With the organization that it has, everyone has better knowledge of what to do and what is happening with everybody
Asana makes collaborative tasks easier, more trackable and encourages more communication. We love how it organizes our ideas into actionable items in an easy to use, easy to see way.
I would love task dependencies to be part of the free program- this seems like a needed addition to teams who are using it frequently, but can't quite convince leadership to pay all the money for all the other features.
Lack of collaboration, communication holes, processes not working- it has been a great addition to our team in creating synergy and better communication. We have been able to add metrics and evaluations to all we are doing because of it.
Asana gives visibility to every team companywide and allows cross-functional teams to communicate more efficiently. Every task object can have several useful relationships, from related OKRs and KPIs to blocking users that are keeping you from completing a certain task. Different views allow you to configure each project in the most adequate way and allows contributors to work in the way they feel more comfortable. Asana also integrates directly with Zoom and HubSpot, which are part of our tech stack, so it is really easy to work with. They also offer an Ambassadorship program that allows you to showcase your knowledge of Asana and have access to more resources within their community.
There isn't much to dislike about Asana. However, I do think that the team could implement better workflow actions. Right now, a lot of standard actions that you would expect from a project management automation tool are pretty crude and most of what needs to be done can only be achieved through an integration called Flowsana. In an ideal world, I'd love to see all Flowsana actions implemented natively onto Asana.
I have been using Asana for two years now across two different organizations. In both organizations, Asana has allowed us to build ticketing systems to control marketing requests and give visibility of our work to other internal stakeholders. On top of that, repeatable project templates have allowed us to operationalize and replicate gtm strategies for new product launches.
My favorite thing about Asana is being able to easily assign tasks and review your own tasks. From the get go, it's simple to navigate and understand, and great for team planning and organization.
There are quite a few features that I don't use, such as reporting and portfolios. I think it perhaps could be simplified, or more features could be free without the need to upgrade your plan.
I maily use it to assign tasks for myself and others, and being able to easily review what I need to get done for the week. It's also great to organize different business strategies and plans.
Asana is one of the best Project management tools. It's user-friendly and you can link to other tools. You can also include users outside your organization and you can link projects to related / other projects.
I can't think of now...so far, I can link to Gdrive, notion, or attached link...maybe to eventually sync in Google calendar especially project deadlines or meetings.
Project management, either huge or minor it's so easy to monitor progress and update the team. Personally, this also measures how I can manage my daily schedule.
Love that you can collaborate task, create a solid workflow, time stamps, send messages, putting due dates, comment and keep everyone in the loop, make notes and so much more!!
Nothing I could think of that I dislike about Asana! I truly love it and wish my old companies used it!
Time management and keeping tasks organized. Great for team environments and allowing everyone to be a part of solutions. Project management and Workflow management have never been better.
The ability to collaborate in real-time, setting tasks/deadlines, linking goals/blockers to them
Limited options with templates, search bar could be improved, would love some short videos popping up when you are using Asana in order to help you complete the actions / tasks you are doing
We are a global company and working on many projects that involve many stakeholders around the globe. Asana helps us unite all the necessary people around the project at hand and progress effectively.
Asana makes it easy for me to tackle and stay on top of my projects with its easy-to-use and powerful software system.
Nothing to dislike. Wish I would have discovered it earlier in my career.
No problems with Asana. Productivity has definitely improved when implementing Asana with my projects. No more excel sheets!
The fact that you can have your whole team stay in sync and focused on big projects
We like everything about ASANA, its too easy to not get the product
We are solving major projects we have at our properties. We have benefited by keeping our team members on track and we are able to communicate via the product
Asana allows me to create a project and duplicate it to repeat at a later time (onboarding tasks, payroll, annual bonus program, etc.). I can truly stop thinking about each step and trust Asana. If the process changes I can edit the project. It's fantastic.
The number of notifications can be overwhelming. I turned off email notifications and I've also silenced the notifications through the integration with Slack. People can ignore Asana but that's more of a training and issue with the individual than a system issue.
I save so much time. I've delayed increasing headcount in my department through Asana efficiency. I've also avoided expanding the HR tech stack through Asana projects and repeat annual, quarterly, and monthly tasks for employee engagement and performance reviews.
The templates make remote work easier for our team. Everyone knows what to do and when.
It's easy to accidentally delete your work and hard to retrieve deleted projects.
Our remote team can communicate much more effectively using asana projects and templates. We have also used asana to integrate slack workflows so we don't lose any tasks.
Asana is one the best project management system for Project manager. It helps to maintain the project smoothly. It allows to allocate the task, set the deadlines, tract the work and many more features.
Pricing plan for asana is bit high than other similar systems.
Most of my problems have been solved with asana, which I faced in project management like task assignement, task tracking etc.
It helps me and everyone in my organization to stay organized and be on track. Most importantly, Asana is free. It has apps for all platforms. I assign taks on my Mac and keeps track of everything on my Android. I have also used it on my windows machine earlier. Even if I'm on a vacation, I can keep track of everything.
Nothing specific to be honest. Its has everything to manage a team effectivelyin the free version that too with 15 member slots which is quite generous. So I cant complain much.
It lets me have a peace of mind. I can keep track of all the works I have assigned to my teammates, know the realtime status. Everything can be explained in the description, plus they can ask doubts in the comment section. It eliminates the time I spend on individual calls and lets me be more productive at my work.
It is simple to set up and configure the boards for the internal team, and we can also create reusable templates and share them with our team to help them launch new projects quickly. It has a great user interface and a clean way to use it.
There should be a way to change the theme style or colors, as well as reorder the fields. Also, there should be a better way to track timelines, as they are currently not visible in the correct manner.
We use it to track daily requests with our development and customer success teams. For example, a bug report, a feature request, QA, and so on. It assists our team in reviewing our pipelines and planning the next steps for the same.
Asana is very easy to use, easy to search, and easy to organize. It is clean in it's interface and very easy to invite the whole team to access all aspects of the project in one place.
The completed items default as viewable in the project. I wish if you selected the default to hid completed items, this would carry across all boards. Also, the dates do not auto sort by closest to furthest.
The team is able to host all information related to the subitems of a project in one place. Instead of having a shared dropbox, we can host all of the files and photos related to the project in the same item.
I like the features and function Asana provides for user to manage their project and teamwork.I used them for my employees to submit files for the assigned task.
I honestly did not find anything missing in Asana. I think they provide us with more features for our work than we desire. Everything is pretty fine just if they do something with the pricing.
I use Asana for project management. I have been using the software since 2018 and the result is too satisfying. Yes, I am now more productive then before. My business performance has increased.
I love everything about Asana as a task management platform. It has kept me organized, both professionally and personally. I had never been able to stick to a to-do list before, but Asana's ease of use and collaboration abilities make it my favorite workplace tool.
There really isn't anything that I dislike about Asana. Since it has customization capabilities for tasks and projects, I'm able to get exactly what I need from the platform.
The main problem that Asana solves is team collaboration. It has eliminated some of the silos that were occurring with individuals on the team working on their own projects and not realizing that there were overlaps that could be benefitted from more collaboration. Asana helps us see what others are working on and it keeps us accountable to a timeline.
The fact that Asana is flexible and scalable. Asana has a robust learning library as part of the Asana Academy. Templates and now rul;es and triggers are super helpful.
I want more automation with goals and better integration with Google Chat/meet. I'm not too fond of the minimal reporting features.
I'm running multiple departments, marketing, technology development, legal, and compliance. It's is especially helpful for remote teams.