Asana vs ZenHub

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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Kirk Brote

Senior Director of Product Experience

WuXi NextCODEBiotechnology, 501-1000 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

9.0

8.0

Resource Management

8.2

9.0

Gantt Charts

6.5

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Scheduling

8.5

10.0

Workflow Automation

7.8

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Team Collaboration

8.9

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

7.2

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Mobile Access

8.2

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

7.3

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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

Simplicity of user interface without neglecting functionality
Timeline and calendar views are extremely useful
Templates for repeatable projects

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Barbara Carneiro

Disciple & Head Honcho

Word RevolutionMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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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

Nothing to note, really. We love it!

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Barbara Carneiro

Disciple & Head Honcho

Word RevolutionMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 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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Matthew Gardner

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RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Asana10.0

Based on 32 answers

I had a positive experience with it. It was easy to learn and my team really enjoyed collaborating it and assigning projects through this tool. If I could get all staff involved and provide incentives for all of us to use the tool, we would be probably 2x more efficient with our productivity. Everyone has their own tools to manage projects but we should stick to just one tool like Asana.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Consumer Electronics Company, 11-50 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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Matthew Gardner

Co-Founder/Product

RouteThisComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asana8.4

Based on 2 answers

Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Ronen Soreq

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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C-Level Executive in Product Management

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Basecamp is a great tool but looks a bit juvenile next to Asana. Basecamp treated us very well but Asana is a perfect fit for us now. It's easy to use and clients use it, which is a big win. Teamwork was extremely complex and cluttered. Something that made is really hard for my team and clients to embrace. We were with Teamwork for one month, then we moved to Asana!

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Barbara Carneiro

Disciple & Head Honcho

Word RevolutionMarketing and Advertising, 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

We went from disorganized to having our processes fully documented. This allows for projects to be duplicated and started faster, increasing my margins.
Less opportunity for missed tasks or confusion.
Progress checking always available and easy to use (for our clients)

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Barbara Carneiro

Disciple & Head Honcho

Word RevolutionMarketing and Advertising, 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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