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Score 8.3 out of 101

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Likelihood to Recommend

Asana

Asana functions particularly well in scenarios with well-established teams with well-established processes and a mature SDLC. The reason is that Asana can be configured to do many, many different things, and be used in many, many different ways, and with that power comes a lot of responsibility to figure out your process before you try and automate it. It's software, not magic.

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Trello

Trello is ideal for small projects, with few people and as an internal tool of some departments of your company. It is less appropriate for bigger jobs, since it organizes them by independent boards, disconnected from each other. While you can assign a task to several people, when the team and projects grow, the boards play against us. For example, to assign a task it is necessary to first think about which board corresponds, look for it, enter it and reassign the task.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Project Management

Asana
7.8
Trello
8.0
Task Management
Asana
9.0
Trello
9.1
Resource Management
Asana
8.2
Trello
8.0
Gantt Charts
Asana
6.5
Trello
6.8
Scheduling
Asana
8.5
Trello
7.2
Workflow Automation
Asana
7.7
Trello
7.3
Team Collaboration
Asana
8.8
Trello
8.9
Support for Agile Methodology
Asana
8.5
Trello
8.8
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Asana
8.5
Trello
8.0
Document Management
Asana
6.8
Trello
7.4
Email integration
Asana
7.1
Trello
7.6
Mobile Access
Asana
8.0
Trello
8.6
Timesheet Tracking
Asana
6.1
Trello
8.7
Change request and Case Management
Asana
8.4
Trello
8.0
Budget and Expense Management
Asana
7.2
Trello
7.3

Professional Services Automation

Asana
6.2
Trello
7.7
Project & financial reporting
Asana
5.5
Trello
7.8
Integration with accounting software
Asana
7.0
Trello
8.1
Quotes/estimates
Asana
—
Trello
7.8
Invoicing
Asana
—
Trello
7.2

Pros

  • Report of tasks added to tasks completed to see how productive the team has been with a particular project.
  • Individual tasks so you can see how swamped/not others on the team are.
  • Adding a project/task to multiple projects is awesome. We have a general ALL marketing projects in one project and then separate them out in another (email, social media, etc.).

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  • Trello is great at visualizing the tasks that need to be completed. Their boards are a great way to do that.
  • It's great that you can add additional information to tasks, such as description, comments, links, screenshots, add members to it, set a due date, add labels and much more. It's really helpful.
  • Trello supports integrations with numerous platforms that we already use (e.g. Slack, Google Drive) and it's very convenient to use those integrations.
  • I also use Trello's mobile app on iPhone and it's great.

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Cons

  • The layout of Asana is a little intense and could be cleaned up a bit to provide a cleaner, more focused look.
  • Can't drag and drop all tasks from one subtask to another.
  • Would be nice if one subtask could live in two tasks (similarly that one task can live in multiple projects).

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  • The free version lacks advanced features and you will need to pay for a license if you have a large company with many users.
  • It lacks global labels, it is necessary to specify labels on each board.
  • Everything is organized on boards, at the beginning it can be confusing, for example, to assign a task you have to first think about which board corresponds, look for it, enter it and just assign the task.

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Likelihood to Renew

Asana10.0
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I just can't see us getting it off of Asana any time soon, despite the many headaches it has caused us. We have too much data in there, too much time & training invested into it, too much at stake to move. If we were just starting out today, fresh, I don't know for certain that I would absolutely go the same direction, but I *think* I still would. I just haven't seen anything better yet. Maybe if Podio's support staff hadn't treated me like a worthless nuisance to them, I might feel differently, but the fact is that their task management is simply inferior to Asana's. That can't be denied, and in fact Podio said it themselves: "Tasks are a simple function. They cannot be customized. Tasks in Podio can be used for quick to-do's for you and your team members." In our operation, however, prompt task completion is a big deal; one task can't be completed until another one is done first, and closing the gaps between those tasks is critical in meeting deadlines and servicing our customers. Asana gets us there, the others don't.

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Trello9.0
Based on 3 answers
It does everything we need it to do to manage users and content as it progresses, but could do with more improvements too such as notifications or remote notifications. We have no reason to move for now!

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Usability

Asana6.0
Based on 5 answers
This is the best task management App for teams I have used

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Trello7.1
Based on 6 answers
There aren't many features to Trello, but that is why it is so intuitive and easy to use.

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Reliability and Availability

Asana8.4
Based on 2 answers
Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Support

Asana8.3
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They don't fix everything, but they have certainly gone the extra mile for us. When we were frustrated with a recent change that altered our default view of every project, changing it from all projects being visible to just incomplete projects being visible, they wrote a custom script to change all of our default views back for us, so we didn't have to manually click 3,000 times (we have over a thousand projects).

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Implementation

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Trello9.0
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For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.

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Alternatives Considered

We loved the fun design hacks (e.g., flying celebratory unicorns when you complete a task, Tab+B puts tabby cats on your screen temporarily; themed backgrounds). We're marketers–can you blame us?! But in all seriousness, we chose Asana over other similar products because of the detail that Asana could go into when tasking out subtasks to individuals with separate deadlines. Managers are also able to view the tasks that team members are working on to manage workload. It's also helped increase visibility of task details amongst team members to provide background on projects they might be looped into in the future.

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Scalability

Asana8.2
Based on 1 answer
I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Return on Investment

  • Productivity was greatly improved; the average person was able to manage and communicate their workload extremely quickly.
  • Average response time from product management to our account management team went went from an average of 3 hours to an average of 35 minutes (team was better managing it's workload).
  • Average response time for customer inquiries went from 2 hours to 15 minutes (team was better managing it's workload).

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  • Trello has helped us getting all the important tasks under one platform which is easy to follow for all the stake holders.

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Pricing Details

Asana

General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
8.33*
1.  per user per month
Additional Pricing Details
Asana is always free for teams of up to 15 people.

Trello

General
Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
—