Asana vs ZenHub

Asana

If you have a team of employees that you would like to view their progress, assign different tasks to various employees based on their specific talents or qualifications and have all projects tracked while doing so, this is the program for you. It has options to hold ideas, images, mood boards, as well as your products being developed and put on the market. It keeps everyone in the department up to speed and not just the one person in charge of it and their supervisor.

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Wholesale Company, 51-200 employees

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ZenHub

If you have more than 2 developers this thing is basically a requirement within github to manage sprints if you use agile methodology. Why use a different website entirely when you can run your entire board right from github itself? I've tried other solutions but basing everything on github issues makes it so no duplicate work has to take place. If the UX quirks and mobile were fixed this would be 10/10 for me!If you're only one or two devs on a team it may be overkill to use, but if you're going to scale it's better to put the process in early.

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Matthew Gardner

Co-Founder/Product

RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Asana

7.8

ZenHub

8.7

Task Management

9.1

8.0

Resource Management

7.8

9.0

Gantt Charts

6.5

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Scheduling

8.5

10.0

Workflow Automation

7.5

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Team Collaboration

9.0

10.0

Support for Agile Methodology

8.5

10.0

Support for Waterfall Methodology

8.5

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Document Management

6.8

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Email integration

7.4

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Mobile Access

7.8

5.0

Timesheet Tracking

6.1

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Change request and Case Management

8.4

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Budget and Expense Management

7.0

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Asana

6.2

ZenHub

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Project & financial reporting

5.5

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Integration with accounting software

7.0

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Pros

Multiple users can access the program at once without stepping on each other's toes or having to wait until someone is out a project to add something. It is definitely a group friendly program.
We like how visually pleasing it is. It is not at all intimidating to first-time users as it is very user-friendly. You can quickly find what you need and become comfortable with its features and functions.
I personally like being able to assign different tasks to different employees and be able to receive feedback and progress directly from that assigned person as well as view it myself.

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Makes it very easy to get a high-level overview of sprints and sprint progress, creates burndown charts, etc
UX is top notch, almost everything works intuitively
You can create issues and epics right from the interface, basically all github issue functionality is available through zenbhub
Embeds into github using an extension so you don't need an external site
Free starter plan good to test and for small dev teams

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Matthew Gardner

Co-Founder/Product

RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

A timeline feature would be huge for enterprise reporting. If you think about viewing a project, it's not just its sprint planning and task management that people want visibility to. It's, what happened and when over the life of the project. Having a timeline with a milestone-level view would help Asana gain traction in the enterprise.
A forecasting tool of delivery is a killer feature (remember killer apps?) for managers. Based on the delivery schedule for the past 50% of the project, we have X% confidence we're on track for final delivery. Now, some of this goes against agile principles but at the same time, so to people, projects and organizations.

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Ian Mortimer

Senior iOS Developer

Savant SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Mobile experience is hard as it's a board layout. Could use a dedicated app.
Has some UX quirks that rear their heads randomly, i.e. can't convert an issue to an epic if you click the wrong button when creating
May have recently moved to all-paid for companies with a 14 day trial, used to be free for small teams

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RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Asana10.0

Based on 32 answers

Asana is great for how I end up using it. When a new project launches and I get busy, I can easily pick it up and begin using it again and as I get more time (or the project completes) I can drop it again. It seems to morph better than any other application to exactly what project I'm working on, what I need to track, etc. It simply fits into my life extremely well and I'll end up using it again every time I start a new project.

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Andrew Comstock

Director of Product Management

InformaticaHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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ZenHub7.0

Based on 1 answer

Almost amazing with a few hiccoughs. Mobile is a big one and also sometimes you want to run a filter or something and the outcome is not what you would expect.

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RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asana8.4

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Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Product Management

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Asana has its proper place in task management. There are better tools that provide similar functionality but the decision depends heavily on the actual requirements. If you own a small business or a start up, Asana is excellent. If you are an enterprise level organization, you'll want to map the requirements to the key features and functionality. Considering Asana is a free product with a paid model as you grow, it is an excellent offering to the project management community.

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Andrew Makar

Program Manager

General MotorsInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Way better than competition if you use github because it seamlessly integrates without doing anything. You don't need to duplicate your issues, etc. As long as your devs already use github and github issues this will be a no brainer and simple to implement. With JIRA or Trello we were doing everything twice, things got dropped, etc.

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Matthew Gardner

Co-Founder/Product

RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

Asana8.2

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I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Based on stakeholder feedback, Asana has been an effective way to help them organize their business. It has become a critical tool for their task management and scaling their business processes across the team.

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Andrew Makar

Program Manager

General MotorsInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Saving dev time, making it easier to create a process they enjoy and use without issue (intangible)
Making conversations between developers and product teams/easy to facilitate (intangible)
Sped up the entire process (intangible)

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Matthew Gardner

Co-Founder/Product

RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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