Love Asana - great for small teams if you need a "free" project management program
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 07, 2015
LM
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
In my last role, a team of 14 of us used Asana to manage projects at the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We used it to keep in touch with project details, deadlines, and status updates. It addressed the need to have regular communication for professional development activities without ongoing meetings and excessive emails between team members. The expectation was that everyone would login daily and provide updates.
- Organization - all tasks can exist in one location.
- Communication - communication can be focused in one primary location.
- Project management - multiple projects could be virtually managed simultaneously.
- Time management - team members saved a considerable amount of time doing updates in Asana rather than elsewhere.
Cons
- We used this with only small teams and in my current job, if we really shared it with multiple groups, the cost might be more than we could entertain in public education.
- There is a learning curve, although how to videos and YouTube were a time saver!
- There is an initial hurdle that staff needs to overcome, thinking this is "one more thing".