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Asana

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What is Asana?

Asana is a web and mobile project management app. With tasks, projects, conversations, and dashboards, Asana lets an entire team know who's doing what by when, enabling workload balancing. Users can also add integrations for GANTT charts, time tracking and…

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Asana is a versatile tool that serves multiple purposes within organizations. It is widely used for project management, allowing teams to …
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Asana 3 Year Review

9 out of 10
July 21, 2023
Without Asana we would have a much harder time organizing and prioritizing out duties. Asana provides an all in one system to delegate and …
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MASV for super tiny teams

7 out of 10
August 08, 2022
We use Asana as a project management tool by non-developers at our company. It helps everyone stay on the page, which is sometimes …
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Basic task and project manager

5 out of 10
July 08, 2022
We used Asana for monthly, weekly, and daily task management in various functions of our business. Also, we used it for project planning …
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Popular Features

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  • Task Management (163)
    9.1
    91%
  • Team Collaboration (162)
    9.0
    90%
  • Document Management (138)
    8.6
    86%
  • Scheduling (148)
    8.3
    83%

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Pricing

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Premium

$13.49

Cloud
per month

Business

$30.49

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • $10 per user per month
    Optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $50 per month
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Product Demos

Asana Review | A full demo, features & a pricing breakdown

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Demo: How to Use Asana to Manage Your Projects

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Asana Project Management Demo

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Asana - Project and Team Management 2017

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Asana Tutorial For Beginners - Project Management Software

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DD_What is Asana

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

8.1
Avg 7.5

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

6.8
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Asana?

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives. The vendor states that with Asana, teams are more confident, move faster, and accomplish more with less, no matter where they are located. Asana boasts more than 75,000 paying organizations and millions of free organizations across 195 countries as users, who manage everything from company objectives to digital transformation to product launches and marketing campaigns. Teams do great things when everyone has clarity and is empowered to do their part. Asana aims to give teams the confidence to plan, organize, and execute their most ambitious work from anywhere.


Asana Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Resource Management
  • Supported: Gantt Charts
  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Team Collaboration
  • Supported: Document Management
  • Supported: Email integration
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: Budget and Expense Management

Professional Services Automation Features

  • Supported: Integration with accounting software

Additional Features

  • Supported: Work Management
  • Supported: OKRs

Asana Screenshots

Screenshot of Product HomepageScreenshot of Team ConversationsScreenshot of Project CalendarsScreenshot of InboxScreenshot of List ProjectScreenshot of PortfoliosScreenshot of TimelineScreenshot of WorkloadScreenshot of Board Project

Asana Videos

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Asana Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, German

Frequently Asked Questions

Asana is a web and mobile project management app. With tasks, projects, conversations, and dashboards, Asana lets an entire team know who's doing what by when, enabling workload balancing. Users can also add integrations for GANTT charts, time tracking and more.

Asana starts at $50.

Podio, Basecamp, and Paymo are common alternatives for Asana.

Reviewers rate Task Management highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Asana are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Asana is a versatile tool that serves multiple purposes within organizations. It is widely used for project management, allowing teams to track progress and update tasks efficiently. Users appreciate its helpful functions, which enable teams to stay productive, coordinated, and successful in completing tasks and projects. Asana has proven to be particularly effective for the Marketing Team, eliminating the need for outdated task management methods and streamlining project management. It is also highly valuable for organizations with remote workers and different schedules, providing a centralized platform to log projects, tasks, and schedules. The software facilitates collaboration across teams and projects through features like email reminders and project dashboards, enhancing productivity and ensuring everyone stays on the same page. With its customizable nature, Asana adapts to the specific requirements of each team and department, enabling personalized experiences and improved workflow efficiency. Furthermore, Asana's calendar feature helps teams assign and track deadlines, ensuring everyone stays on track and meets project milestones. Overall, Asana's intuitive interface and user-friendly design have led to high adoption rates among users in various departments and industries. Whether it's managing marketing projects, coordinating client work, tracking developer tasks, or facilitating cross-functional collaboration, Asana proves to be an indispensable tool for staying organized and meeting deadlines.

Users of Asana have provided several recommendations based on their experiences with the software. The most common recommendations include:

  • Asana is highly regarded for its reliable email notification system. Users appreciate the timely alerts and updates they receive, helping them stay informed about important tasks and deadlines.

  • Many users recommend Asana for its efficient file storage and sharing capabilities. Teams can easily collaborate on projects by uploading and sharing files within the platform, enabling seamless communication and collaboration.

  • Asana's resource allocation feature is highly praised by users. They find it easy to assign tasks to team members, ensuring that work is distributed effectively and resources are utilized efficiently.

It's worth noting that these recommendations are based on user feedback and reflect their positive experiences with Asana's features.

Attribute Ratings

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Jason Hatfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is currently used by several teams to manage a large number of requests coming in on a daily basis. It allows us to all stay on the same page and have any relevant details available at our fingertips instead of buried in our inbox.
  • Easy task additions from email to specific projects.
  • Chain of custody for tasks is easy to keep track of.
  • Multiple team members can easily contribute to a specific task without negatively impacting workflow and efficiency.
  • Sort tasks by creation date; tasks are automatically sorted with newest on top and oldest on the bottom. Giving the option to inverse this would be a welcome QOL update.
  • Allow tasks added by email integration to be assigned to specific project sections to minimize admin clean up.
Asana is best suited for organizing projects/tasks that have multiple players, who may have varying details within their own silos. Allowing those players to come together and bridge their work into a cohesive whole is a welcome improvement to workflow efficiency.
Kirk Brote | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Asana across our design and development teams in a modified dual agile format. It's an incredibly useful and effective tool for communication and information sharing. Implementing Asana helped resolve many communication issues we had between teams around needs, user stories, requirements, the intended implementation, and how the details fit together, both large and small.
  • Cross-team communication is always a challenge, but Asana helps make information transparent and accessible to all members of the team.
  • It's easy to share with individuals outside of the organization and still control the flow of information.
  • Being able to link in other design resources like InVision prototypes is a huge time saver.
  • Integrating with Slack makes much of our necessary communication automatic.
  • Asana does a lot, so it can sometimes be hard to find the right place to be to find the tools you need.
  • Organization is only as good as you make it and just because a system makes sense to the person that creates it does not mean it will make sense to anyone else.
  • It can be challenging to find the information you need via search.
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.
Tyler Collum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used to use Asana to tackle three different problems: project management mapping, task assignment for marketing, and workflow management among senior leaders. We started using it within specific departments before launching it to the entire team to be used cross-company.
  • Easy to set-up “out of the box.”
  • Ease of use to people with varying levels of technology proficiency.
  • Clean and simple user interface.
  • Controlling who can add/delete tasks isn’t available. Someone can delete tasks with permission and it isn’t auditable.
  • User interface is clunky at times, especially when working on multiple items. Sometimes things just disappear or don’t save.
  • Customer service isn’t stellar. They are email only and often aren’t clear in their response.
I think Asana would only be good for small teams of 1 to 3 people. Once we rolled it out to many users, it became hard to manage each person’s role and what they could add or delete. Multiple people created many problems and I started getting phone calls right away.
December 06, 2018

Can't recommend enough!

Barbara Carneiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is our project management system of choice and it's used throughout the whole organization. My team is remote so all of our projects go into Asana for collaboration and project management.

We used to manage projects on paper and other less adequate options and eventually moved to Basecamp. Basecamp treated us well but we outgrew it. We were particularly looking for software that would allow us to have dependent tasks. Considering my team is remote, this feature became fundamental fast enough.

Asana ended up being our choice and we couldn't be happier. We are more effective, work faster and in a far more organized way. I can't recommend it enough!
  • Simplicity of user interface without neglecting functionality
  • Timeline and calendar views are extremely useful
  • Templates for repeatable projects
  • Nothing to note, really. We love it!
I can not be happier. My team was using Basecamp but we outgrew it. We moved to Teamwork and clients stopped using it and so did my team. We were in Teamwork for just a month and decided we needed something better.

We then found Asana and it has been a breeze since. My team was far happier and ready to use it and my clients started interacting with it again. It is simple to use, yet very powerful.
Kelly Reumann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana was being used as our primary task tracking software after we switched from Basecamp. We were only using a task tracking software for our marketing department but then decided to switch to Asana when we wanted to integrate more departments into the mix. Asana has helped us keep a larger number of team members more organized than we were able to with Basecamp.
  • Asana is great at keeping a slightly larger group organized and on task. It is a great "to do" list, I love checking item off when completed. And call me a millennial, but I love that you can turn on those cute animations as a reward for each task you check off.
  • Asana is great for keeping files in order and sharing files amongst our team in addition to tracking our tasks
  • Right now we're migrating from Asana to Monday. In comparison, Asana seems like it is MUCH more basic than Monday. I'd say, it would benefit Asana to implement some of the capabilities which Monday offers.
I'd say Asana is appropriate for small to medium sized teams/companies/departments. Our needs have grown and as such, Asana just can't fulfill some of those needs. We have a lot of people working remotely so it still offers the benefit of keeping everyone on track but we need something that offers better real time communication almost like a messaging service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire marketing team uses Asana for tracking and managing almost every project and task we do.
  • Great for keeping track of projects and tasks.
  • Dependencies are really useful as well. You can mark certain tasks as being dependent on other tasks.
  • You can also create project timelines which are great for visualizing the lifetime of a project.
  • There's a lot of stuff that gets lost in Asana. Sometimes you really need to be able to keep files in a universal place and not have them get lost in a task or subtask of a task. In that regard things can get confusing sometimes.
Great for task management. But must be used in conjunction with services like google drive and an internal knowledge base.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Most of the projects are managed through Asana. This allows us to organise and plan out our current a future workloads. It also allows us to easily provide customers with updates based on the progress of their project and any task outstanding. We can use the template feature to recreate the projects and update the specific tasks as necessary.
  • I can keep track of everything that's happening with my project in a very simple way.
  • It is simple to use, great looking dashboard. Asana has the right amount of features for people looking to add to their regular to-do apps.
  • The Android application contain all the basic functions. However, it's much more convenient to work from the desktop.
  • Reporting is quick weak.
Asana is a great tool even if just used at a basic level. However there is lot of added benefit from spending time learning all the additional features that can be used and turn it into a very powerful project management tool, such as task dependencies, recurring tasks, sharing tasks between multiple projects etc.
Saurabh Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We start the lifecycle of the product using Asana, Designers are assigned tasks to create wireframes and minimal designs which are uploaded and linked to the group with checkboxes. This is then passed on to following teams, and the process continues until testing.
  • Ability to integrate bitbucket.
  • Commits on one place can reflect here.
  • Ability to let the whole team know what page other developers are on.
  • Letting the management know how the deadline is approached, and what are the areas where things got stuck, the reasons, and rectification for next release
  • Pricing for smaller businessess
  • The starting package can have more number of minimum users.
  • Integration with UI tools like Zeplin, sketch, and terminal can be added.
  • Well suited - For smaller products, while designing an MVP.
  • Less appropriate - Bigger product with too many members.
Elizabeth Coppinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work at a mid-sized digital agency that has used Asana for several years. When we first adopted Asana, I was the technical project manager. As the technical PM I was responsible for managing 20+ website projects at once as well as support tickets from previous clients. Asana was a great way to assign accountability to specific team members and assign due dates to keep projects moving forward. Before Asana, we handled everything through email. It was a nightmare trying to keep track of the status of each project and the relationships between tasks. For me, more than anything, Asana is great for assigning "ownership," which is key to actually getting things done. Though I am no longer a PM, I still use Asana daily to assign responsibilities to my team and keep track of project calendars.
  • Fast: Unlike other PM platforms I've used, Asana is very fast. In fact, it's so fast that when you leave a comment on a task, anyone else looking at that task at the same time will actually see updates as you type. You can easily move tasks into different projects by dragging and dropping. There is no lag time between opening new projects and tasks. Everything seems to load instantaneously.
  • Intuitive: Asana doesn't have a steep learning curve. The default view is list-based. Your team will have no problem learning how to add new tasks, use the WYSIWYG editor, or assign tasks. Use familiar commands like "@" to tag a follower on a task.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: The keyboard shortcuts are incredibly helpful. Simply press enter to enter a new task, tab+backspace to delete, use familiar copy/paste and undo commands, and much more. PMs with a lot to juggle will appreciate the shortcuts.
  • My Tasks: The "my tasks" view provides a single, centralized location for you to see everything on your plate. Use section headings and drag and drop tasks to re-order. I use this to prioritize my week. It helps me focus on what's really important.
  • Searchability: The search in Asana is intuitive. Our task backlog dates back three years, and I can still almost always find what I'm looking for via a simple keyword search. Projects are archived, not deleted, so I always feel like my historical information is safe.
  • Flexibility: Projects can be set up as a waterfall/list view or as kanban. This product should work well for teams with different styles.
  • Integrations: Asana integrates with everything. There's a great Slack integration, but my favorite is the Instagantt integration. Using Instagantt in tandem with asana is a super easy way to create attractive digital project calendars.
  • Emails: Asana can lead to inbox-overload. By default, you are subscribed to updates on any task that you create or follow. Updates include someone marking a task complete, leaving a comment on a task, or adding a file to a task. This means that if your coworker adds a file, makes a comment, then assigns the task back to you, then marks the task complete, you're looking at 4 emails in 10 seconds. You can always unsubscribe from emails or write rules to categorize them in your inbox, but the default setting will leave you inundated.
  • Assigning responsibility to multiple team members: It is possible to assign a task to multiple members of your team, but I don't like the way asana handles this. Rather than assigning the one task to multiple people, asana creates DUPLICATES of the original task. This can be frustrating because it creates redundancy.
  • Dependencies: Assigning dependencies is a new feature for asana. While it's great that this is now possible, it's pretty clear that it's not a focus for the software. The dependencies don't show up clearly in the list view, though they are obvious within the task view.
  • Overwhelming: This is probably more of a governance issue for my team specifically, but our Asana has gotten overwhelming. I count the flexibility of Asana as a pro, but it does come with risk. The lack of rules and controls leads to a "wild west" situation where anyone can organize tasks, projects, templates, etc. anyway they want. We have some team members organizing all their tasks by team function, others organizing tasks by project, others using entirely separate Asana workspaces, etc.
Overall, despite its drawbacks, Asana works really well for our team. I think this is an appropriate [tool] for a mid-sized digital marketing firm, like ourselves. A software development team is going to want something more robust, like JIRA. However, if you're just shopping for an easy-to-learn tool that will help you manage responsibilities without relying on email? Asana is perfect. Its flexibility also makes it a great fit for most work-flows in almost any industry. Asana is simple out-of-the-box, but it does have robust functionalities that will allow your team to ramp up if desired.
Brent Lionel Mausisa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Asana to organize the different projects of each of my clients and the task of each of my employees. It allows me to track the progress of each project especially when it comes to completion of task and sub-task. The ability to put due dates and hierarchy of urgency of each task allows us to see which task we should focus on first. I can easily manage the projects and my team through Asana. The comments feature in each section, task and subtask allow all the tag people to view the questions and comments of the assigned team members. The calendar feature is pretty cool too since I can view all the due tasks of the day and I can easily follow-up with the assigned team members. Overall, it keeps the project fulfillment smooth and easy.
  • Asana allows you to organize your task through a list or through boards.
  • Asana has a great user interface so it's easy for you to locate the projects and the pieces of tasks under each project.
  • Asana's "My Tasks" feature allows you to see all the tasks assigned to you and you can re-arrange them according to priority level.
  • Asana allows me to attach files to each task which allows us to see the progress of the project. It allows you to comment on the current files and the owner of the task can revise it then according to your instructions.
  • It's not that easy to change or update the name of the title. You need to click the arrow down button beside the title to edit. I believe it should be easier like just click on the current title and change it.
  • I would like Asana to put a feature like Facebook and LinkedIn where you know who's online and who's not online. Because if the person-in-charge is online you can communicate with him real time rather than waiting for him to respond later on.
  • I would be glad too if they add a voice call or video call feature so that if you have concerns and the person you would like to talk to is online you can speak with him right away. Some comments or revisions just needs to be explained through a call to eliminate misunderstandings.
Asana is very suitable for creating milestones for app development, web development, marketing projects, lead generation projects, project fulfillment and tracking the progress all the goals and targets of the team. It less appropriate for tracking sales, storing customer details, software development (JIRA is more appropriate for this). I will highly recommend Asana to start-ups as well as corporate teams to organize their workflows very well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Several departments within our company use Asana. Each in a varying capacity. Our design team uses Asana to organize everything from basic ideas to fully approved designs. It is so nice to be able to log on and quickly identify the status of a project, who is assigned to it and any updates you may have missed. Also, the assigning of tasks to individuals is very convenient and eliminates any opportunity for miscommunication or doubling effort resulting in mistakes or wasted time. It is very visual which is extremely user-friendly for the environment in which we use its capabilities.
  • 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.
  • I personally have not found anything that I would recommend at this time. However, I have noticed that the older generation of employees struggle with its style where the computer savvy and younger generation thrive. I have no idea how Asana could overcome that obstacle.
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used as a task management and project management tool. Its easy integration with Gantt charts has made it very suitable to our company's needs. Creating tasks, assigning them to different people, setting deadlines, uploading files, leading discussions on every thread are just some of the features that the platform offers.
  • It's very easy to learn how to use its basic feature and start working with it straight away.
  • It could be used for company, as well as private projects.
  • Different teams can create individual channels and invite any team member to their respecting team.
  • Adding the option for a chat on the platform would be great.
  • It's very complex and in order to use all specific features, everyone needs to watch all tutorials, which is time-consuming.
  • Most of the time I find it difficult to find what I am looking for just because there are sections, subsections, project names, etc.
It's well suited if the company is willing to organize a training for all the employees, so they could use all the features of the platform. In case just a simple task management tool is needed, Asana is not suitable, as it is too complicated.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Asana across our entire company for all projects, including recruitment, product, and internal operations. This platform is primarily leveraged by our younger associates and managers to track and assign projects, although our whole team is set up and has project assignment on the platform. Our more senior managers and executives do not use the platform because forcing behavior there is too hard and the platform is too complex to onboard them.
  • Allows you to assign projects to other teammates
  • Manage up by assigning superiors tasks to review, as opposed to bothering via email
  • Nice daily view that lets you see your most pressing tasks, and hides more long-term goals from view to avoid clutter
  • Great visual timeline feature to see project progress and deadlines
  • Really hard to force behavior on this platform - when I use it, I like it, but we are not consistent enough across our team to truly utilize it
  • Steep learning curve - it is not possible to really master this platform without the videos and tutorials, even for young tech-savvy employees
  • Hate having to add a specific date for each deliverable, but if you don't add a specific one, it clutters up the top of your task list
Asana is well suited for small to-do tasks and for managing up by assigning tasks to peers/ managers. It is less well suited for larger tasks, as the subtasks feature is not well tailored. It is also hard to use across a less tech-savvy team, as the layout is not terribly intuitive and doesn't follow any existing platform format.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my previous job, we used Asana across the Marketing department. In my current job, I and a few others use Asana.
  • Extremely user-friendly
  • Great for collaboration
  • Easy to manage multiple projects across multiple departments
  • Ability to integrate with email calendar
Asana is an amazing project management tool as it allows you to create your to-do lists but also offers the ability to upload any files relevant to that specific project. It's easy to tag and assign tasks to colleagues, create multiple projects and keep them organized, in addition to collaborating across many departments without getting confused.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Asana organization-wide, it has been our saving grace when working to outfit tradeshows and management of everyday projects. We love being able to see open and closed tasks and communicate between departments to ensure that all information for a project is available to all and stored in one location!
  • Allows for uploads of attachments so all relevant back up is available.
  • Timeline and meeting scheduling and reminders all in one place.
  • You can clearly see what tasks have been completed and what is still outstanding.
  • Different options for project views
  • The ability to remove a member from a project even if you didn't start the project if an employee leaves the company.
  • Different snooze notification options.
Asana would be useful to any organization from corporate offices to restaurants, for task list keeping or supply orders, across the board, it's a great platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well designed for managing team projects and workflows, Easy to handle task management. The board system is really useful and its great to handle activity tracking of employees. Mobile app is very easy and nice UI.

It helped with:

  • Task management.
  • Team project and Workflow maintenance.
  • Activity tracking of employees.
  • Project management and workflow
  • Create customized lists of tasks and reminders.
  • Employee activity tracking
  • One-time solution for project tracking
  • Little complex UX for beginners
  • Site is a little heavy to load
Well suited

  • Project management with a large team.
  • Manage proper workflow.
  • Managing very big projects.
  • Activity tracking for employees.
Oleg Galimov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I worked as a marketing consultant for some time and was able to manage up to ten projects with Asana at the same time. This service helps to virtually eliminate working with e-mail and work much more efficiently. People in my team know exactly what to do and when to do it. My clients know exactly what is happening with their projects. And I know how to plan my day. Communication is directly related to tasks and results - this is really important.
  • Excellent iOS app (beware of the product for Android)
  • Free of charge, if you do not need to run a large team into the project.
  • Smart, intuitive interface
  • Configurable task repetition settings.
  • Supports hot keys
  • There is no Russian language version
  • No push to the browser
  • No project templates - this is a big bummer :-(
  • Not the best visual layout; something like DropTask
- At least 2 times a day go to the My tasks section and select the Calendar tab to monitor the task status and deadline
- Transfer tasks from work immediately from mail / chat to Asana
- You can not change the date of the task without comment
- If the user performed part of the task and had to transfer it to another responsible person, but forgot to do this, he and the project manager are to blame. If the task was moved to another user after 18:00, you also need to change the date by putting out tomorrow, and indicate the status in the comment to the task
- At the end of the working day there should not be a single task with the date of the current day
Suthe Mani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For my internship, it was used to assign editorial tasks. For my current job, it is used to assign tasks to various team members on various projects. Typically, the project manager does this, but if someone in another department needs to assign something to someone from another team, this can be done by any employee. It usually helps with any urgent tasks that anyone needs to outsource to another team, and lets people know what something needs to get done ASAP.
  • Keeps an organized list of what needs to get done.
  • Great tool for project managers to use to consolidate things into one interface.
  • Aesthetically pleasing interface.
  • It would be nice to have a list of the past tasks that I have completed, just so I can review the information that was in the description of the task, and gain access to whatever I turned in or attached to that task
  • Some of the features seem unnecessary, like the conversation one seems redundant, and the calendar, it's said in the task itself when it is due, no need to have calendar.
  • No need for an inbox when are tasked things, and they show up in your "my tasks".
Having an aggregated source of information in one place, it is a great tool for project managers, and team members to get things done more efficiently. It probably wouldn't be an appropriate place to have discussions, just because it will feel crowded with commentary and chats.
Karen Hansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We all use ASANA to organise tasks within all work we do. It's the first thing to look at in the morning to organise your day. Because our small but growing workforce operates in several different locations an hour or two apart, ASANA helps us be a coordinated team.
  • Organise multiple projects simultaneously - for a startup this is so important because everyone has to pitch into a lot of different areas.
  • Headings within tasks helps a lot! Keeps a complex project organised.
  • We tried integrating a time keeping app to ASANA. It was fine but the truth is we didn't remember to start or stop the timer. What we really need is an easy method to estimate how long a task took right there in ASANA -- nothing too elaborate.
  • We would need to be able to download the projects and see how much time was spent on the whole project added up from the tasks within it -- the individual task times don't matter so much as time spent on a project by all working on it within a week or month.
Prioritising your day! I love to have a tick list of tasks to complete and deadlines for doing so. I did this in my notebook until ASANA came along to our office. Now tasks aren't so easily forgotten and they are kept up to date.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Asana to track all employee's projects, assign tasks and know their status. Asana keeps all the tasks simplified and everybody knows what they have to do. It's also pretty useful to set deadlines for the projects. Asana makes it really easy to see the development of every project. You can write comments, attach files, etc.
  • Track status of projects
  • Assign projects
  • Create a cooperative enviroment
  • Not too good for graphic projects..handling images etc
  • The app is quite chaotic
  • It could be easier to use
Really useful for telecommuting teams that work in different places and timetables and not so useful for a small office where everybody chats and have meetings frequently. If everybody is in the same room it's not necessary at all to have Asana and in my opinion, it can maybe make the environment less comfortable.
Ray Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Asana for project management and issue tracking across multiple departments. This helped us defined future goals, track current issues, and increase project visibility and communication between departments.
  • In my opinion, Asana is very easy to use and intuitive.
  • Setting up projects and organizing tasks is very quick and easy.
  • Granting outside access to tasks is very simple.
  • Multiple integrations exist to customize Asana to fit your particular style of project/task management.
  • Visibility into what other people are working on is limited.
  • No built in Gannt charting.
Asana seems very appropriate for small teams or companies with a flexible project structure. It is great for task management and organization but there other products that are better suited if you're looking for more traditional project management.
September 27, 2016

Asana is awesome

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is a great tool that helps track personal and company progress. We have used it for a couple of projects and have found it easy to use.
  • Progress tracker
  • Assigning/organizing tasks
  • Project management
  • Colors/theme customizaion
  • Conversations
  • Font/size options
Asana is great for organizing tasks and tracking progress, so it is great for professionals.
Casey Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We originally used Asana across the whole organization and segregated projects by department. The problems it helped address was communication and archiving of our issues. So, for example, if we needed to reference an issue that came up 2 years ago, we could easily search Asana, find it, and see the full history of that issue, including any attachments. This was one of my favorite features of the service.
  • The interface is intuitive, which makes it a breeze to use.
  • It gives a high level of visibility into each project with its calendars, user tagging and email notifications. I always know when something is updated and can see the changes right away.
  • The ability to tag everything made it easy for us to organize our projects to match our internal work flows.
  • We feel like it was missing some aspects of project management; specifically an Agile workflow for software development teams.
  • The dashboard doesn't seem to convey much useful information.
I think Asana is well suited for basic team communication and project management. I would especially recommend the free tier for small startup businesses who are looking for a team communication tool. I think it isn't suited very well for niche use-cases, like software development teams who prefer specific project management (PM) methodologies, like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Ronen Soreq | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I started using Asana for every project I run. Slowly more people in our organization started using it and we are currently less than 200 people working on the premium account. Different departments use it on a daily basis for managing their teams / projects. This is a great tool that is simple to use and customize. I would like to see better integration with TFS / JIRA and Salesforce so existing tools can talk with each other.
  • Simple to use, no need for admin to customize your projects
  • Get in fast and collaborate easily
  • Interact with your email system for those who still ike to use it
  • Easily deploy across your ORG along with your customers
  • Free integrations with TFS / JIRA and Salesforce
  • Add features for the management team (Directors / VPs)
  • Improve defects and SCRUM management capabilities
Asana is suitable for:

  • Project management of remote teams
  • Custom ALM cycle
  • Cross ORG communication
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana is mainly our marketing project organizer. We are able to task each team member and organize due dates so that we don't forget to provide information to each other, customers, etc. We have a lot of detailed partnerships with other businesses with a lot of moving parts and various deadlines, so Asana makes it easy to keep track of it all.
  • 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.).
  • 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).
I like to stay very organized, so I can't imagine a scenario where Asana is less appropriate. Whether you're a one person team, or you work amongst multiple departments/teams, Asana offers the flexibility to bring everyone into the fold and keep everyone on the same page and on task. Our marketing department uses Asana to task out everything: copy, advertising deadlines, website updates, image design, PR and award management, etc. We were using Basecamp before this, but our marketing team became too large, and we weren't able to assign subtasks to individual people with individual due dates.
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