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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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$13.49

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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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Rafiqul Islam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana is an excellent tool for managing our organization's many projects and tasks. It is a flexible project management tool that has improved team collaboration and integration with productivity tools. It has an intuitive user interface and customizable features for project management needs. It is ideal for remote teams due to its cloud-based platform and Slack and Google Drive integration. Asana lets us assign tasks to multiple people and link them to multiple projects. It also has many integrations that allow us directly interact with various applications without exporters or other processes.
  • Manages project files and tracks progress.
  • Analyzes project details interactively.
  • Simplifies surveys and data collection.
  • Beginners need help and work best on PCs.
  • Instructions on a section's top may improve workflow.
Asana fixed team issues like project transparency and communication, improved team performance, and enhanced office and mobile productivity. Upper management can solve project management issues quickly, and new hires can use the tool immediately. Asana's surveys simplify research and data collection. Its free trial, free plan, or paid SaaS subscription gives small and large teams the tools and centralized console to work through project tasks efficiently. Due to its complexity, Asana can be overwhelming at first.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana solves our concerns related to project tracking. It helps us document project plans, track their progress on daily basis and keeps relevant colleagues in loop. We are able to view timelines in interactive charts that help us analyze our management on a quarterly basis and plan ways to bring in more efficiency.
  • Asana allows users to document entire project at one place. This includes documentation, daily progress, adding relevant resources.
  • Asana also allows people managers to analyze the overall efficiency of the direct reportees by viewing the project details in interactive manner.
  • Asana also provides tool for forms that helps us create surveys or gather required info in an easy way.
  • Asana can provide a more easy way to link hierarchical tasks, projects and their dependencies.
  • Asana can provide more integrations for tools like Microsoft tools. This would come in handy for organizations running completely on Microsoft stack.
  • Asana can also provide features to import documents from other softwares.
Asana is well suited to track projects during collaboration with both technical and non technical teams where there are a ton of tasks with dependencies. It is very useful in tracking bigger projects that span for more than a month to view the entire life cycle of the project. For small projects as well Asana provides features to track progress.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Asana as a project management tool by non-developers at our company. It helps everyone stay on the page, which is sometimes challenging as a fully remote organization. We also use Asana to manage feature and product launches, our content calendar, and as a backlog of ideas.
  • Assigning tasks to other users is easy.
  • Nice UI.
  • Linking projects together saves time and keeps things organized.
  • Should be able to make custom date properties to better manage a typical content production workflow.
  • Should be able to copy and paste subtasks and retain hierarchy.
  • Need an "undo" shortcut to undo the last action(s) performed.
Asana works well for keeping teams on task an on the same page, but it's easy to fall into the trap of working outside Asana in other tools (like spreadsheets) and then having to duplicate in Asana. This is more of a business process challenge, but it's a result of Asana not quite being able to do everything that we need.
Ammar Aboalrub | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The Asana tool has helped us to plan and assist the work teams by helping the team leaders to follow the progress of the work and works to improve the teamwork, which facilitates its organization. Through it, we were able to solve many problems, the most important of which are scheduling tasks and projects, following them up, and archiving them in a way that facilitates communication between members of the same team and between the different teams within the organization.
  • Through it, we were able to communicate and cooperate with the rest of the team to complete the work in the required manner and at the appropriate time.
  • Available for free on Android and iPhone.
  • Asana has a simple and easy user interface
  • The service cannot be used if there is no internet connection, I would like to add a service in case the internet is disconnected, this will give more power to the tool.
  • The copy and paste function is not working perfectly, please improve it better.
My experience in Asana is more than two years, and I really enjoyed the experience and working with my teams, as Asana provides effective communication between us and spread the fun, enthusiasm, and achievement in work faster, as I used conversations to inform the team what I want, follow up, comment on the tasks and inform them that the work is finished.
Cristian Muresan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Asana to manage projects by outlining tasks, separating responsibilities, tracking conversations, and keeping attachments and assets localized to single tasks. We were looking to replace email as the standard mechanism to collaborate as a team and needed something that helps with work distribution and traceability. Asana fit well into what we were looking for and found it saved us time.
  • Task distribution
  • Notifying users of relevant information
  • It ensures conversations and assets are compartmentalized to a single task
  • Clutter - the UI is cluttered and there are too many things happening at once. Trim some of the digital fat to make using Asana a lighter, more pleasant experience
  • Allow for users to select which notifications to receive vs. which do not. Use usage statistics to develop an individualized notification algorithm specific to each user.
  • Develop native time tracking functionality. Working with 3rd party integrations just adds an unnecessary layer that makes the user experience more complex without reaping any significant rewards.
It works well in smaller teams and eliminates the need for Slack or email to collaborate. However, for larger teams collaboration may be difficult to keep track of. Overall, I would also say that from a management point of view reviewing a project's progress by seeing what has been done is tricky.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Asana for monthly, weekly, and daily task management in various functions of our business. Also, we used it for project planning and follow-up.
  • Task management
  • Project planning
  • Workspaces
  • Simplicity
  • User interface
  • Project resource management
Asana is a pretty good overall task and project management tool. That's it. Asana feels today a little left behind in user interface and usability - it can get complicated soon.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is mainly used by the entire public affairs department, however, there are parts of Asana that are used by the entire organization (forms, accessing shared links, etc). Asana is a project management tool that [keeps] our creative teams on track of projects. It allows detailed project planning and organization and allows every team member to fully visualize the project process before it gets started.
  • Flexible organization of project parts - you can easily set up project boards on your own or use pre-built templates to start laying out your project details.
  • Small features - drag and drop functionality makes it super easy to route outside requests, tagging your team members and setting priorities, and the ability to integrate with Outlook are really helpful extra touches.
  • Calendar feature - what good would a project management software be without an excellent calendar feature? Luckily, Asana lets you track goals and progress while keeping an eye on your teammates calendars/workloads.
  • I think there could be improved clarity around the different levels of Asana. For example, the resources available to paid accounts are not visible from the more basic accounts, so you're not aware that there are expanded options until you look in their knowledge base and see that they have additional features.
  • Exporting projects - you can export a project into a csv, but it isn't pretty. This can be challenging if you'd like to have an archived project folder for open records requests.
I think Asana is one of the best project management software available. In this world of mostly digital communication, keeping your team on track OUTSIDE of Microsoft Teams/Skype/Slack/Email is crucial as so many moving parts can easily get dropped. Asana is there to hold all of the pieces and easily integrate with your main communication channel.
Brian Keary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a web developer, I find Asana comes in handy to keep my projects organized. Everything I need to accomplish is easy to add to each project and I even get a nice graphic when a task is completed. Before I used Asana I had project details in 4 or 5 places and it was always a pain to keep organized.
  • Organize my material in one place so I don't need to dig for it.
  • Ability to add to each project easily and check it off as done just as easy.
  • Pleasing design
  • When I am a user with clients I need to open a new window for client.
  • When using the app it always tries to open in browser when clicking anything.
For Project Management, Asana is the choice to pick. It is super simple to set up, edit and use. When I choose the app as my default preference, I wish that when I get an email and click the link it doesn't always try to open a web browser version.
Chantelle Chase | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use this currently to manage projects within my company. It is an excellent tool to allow both my clients and colleagues to see the progress and see what is missing and where something is in the pipeline. It also has great reminder tools. It is great for us to meet deadlines, improve efficiency and accountability within the organization.
  • I love that it puts communication all in one place!
  • It helps us to be accountable for our work and see who is responsible for what!
  • We love the ability to customize the platform to our needs.
  • Currently we are a small organization and haven't run into too many issues.
I think the best part about Asana is how we can use it seamlessly across the company within all departments and have separate spaces for each department as well. We are all remote so when we aren't able to have a standup meeting it is easy to pop in there and see where everyone is on a specific project.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're a creative agency managing multiple client projects and internal initiatives. Asana has helped us streamline our process and continue to hold ourselves accountable, especially as a remote team. Asana is flexible enough to grow with our team and the templates feature is especially helpful in onboarding new team members.
  • Project Management.
  • Reminders.
  • Deadlines.
  • Integrations.
  • The UX could be more intuitive.
  • More nuanced time tracking and subproject reporting.
  • Detailed reporting.
Asana is a great option for any team managing multiple projects and passing files through a review process. If you require integrations with multiple tools, Asana's ecosystem is well-established and the support team can be helpful with implementation. Asana is a flexible tool for growing organizations, but pricing might be an issue for smaller startups.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My use of Asana is as a user on other people's projects. It makes it easy for me, as a stakeholder, to get updates and see where other groups are in the life of the project, and reduces the number of emails I need to send to the project manager - I can just take a look and see for myself how things are progressing and what tasks might be assigned to me.
  • Task management
  • Progress updates
  • When you have a lot of projects going, it can be hard to navigate all of them
Asana is great for getting out of docs and email and getting people on the same page to manage complex projects and share resources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently, Asana is used across the whole company to keep everyone informed of what other areas are working on, how are their timelines and progress, and also to create requests such as new hardware requirements, software access, or even updates on the payroll. Having into account what I previously mentioned, the business problems that it addresses are project management, requirement management, and task grooming.
  • Task grooming
  • Sharing of project/product evolution across company
  • reminders of incoming tasks
  • On the board view, organizing more than one dimension for example having tasks of front and back in the same board while trying to keep track of the progress of each one in the same space
it certainly is a really good tool when it comes to project management because it allows keeping track easily of how [our] timelines being handled, what is the overall progress of a specific task or a product as well as providing tools such as dashboards to see the performance of the team and based on that, making decisions to improve. It has room for improvement when it comes to board view, more specific when trying to organize more than one dimension for example having tasks related to front and back in the same board while trying to keep track of the progress of each one in the same space.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana was first introduced to me by a director of another functional area who had used it at a previous job and loved it. Since I was managing the requests for new application acquisition at that point, I got to try it out and see how it worked in action. Our Commercial Partners division currently uses Asana as their primary Project Management application. It is used to ensure that all project management tasks are aligned and everyone knows what they are assigned to accomplish for the said project.
  • Super easy to assign task list items to members of my team.
  • Task finished checkmark is a way visual representation of what is done and off your plate.
  • Multiple ways to sort the tasks, by date or by priority.
  • Integration: Our company uses Sharepoint, and I wish there was an easy integration for that.
  • Customize notification. I wish there was a more detailed way to customize notification for certain projects or tasks.
  • Calendar Syncing is really hard to do, especially with team members using a different system.
Asana is one of the best project management software applications that I have used in my career as a Product and Project Manager in multiple industries. It provides a plug n play approach to the new application onboarding. It's pretty intuitive and the basic functions are very easy to get accustomed to, for a more robust system, a person has to do a deeper dive into the functionalities. However for a medium sized team I think this is a wonderful application. It keeps everyone on task and it's simple to add a task and assign it and track progress.
Lee L Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A few of us at TLo use Asana as a project management tool to keep track of the projects and tasks for our current clients. Each person can track their individual to-dos, you can view all backlogged or in-flight tasks for a specific client, and you can communicate about all of the above inside the app.
  • Keeping tracking of tasks for projects
  • Keeping track of tasks for yourself and other employees
  • Communicating about tasks, due dates, etc
  • Recurring tasks are a bit weird in how they are re-generated each time you complete the previous one.
  • It was a huge pain to switch email addresses/accounts when we changed our email domain.
Asana is a great project management tool for when you need a simple solution. The free tier has plenty of functionality for small teams and I'm sure the paid tier(s) have some advanced options that would be even nicer. If you need a super involved tool, you may need something more sophisticated, but it gets the job done for us.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are rolling out Asana across most of our organization, in an attempt to improve collaboration and manage all the new products and projects being created on a daily basis.
  • Organizing information
  • Facilitating communication across teams
  • Lots of "gotchas" in their pricing and contracts
  • Poor onboarding
  • General lack of concern about their customers
Asana is well-suited for companies with deep pockets who don't mind being nickel-and-dimed. If you need to add 1 extra user to your account -- you can't. They will charge you for either 10 extra users or 25 extra users, depending on your company size. And they don't disclose this pricing up front. If you dislike these kinds of "gotchas" and deceptive pricing, then you should look elsewhere for another solution. No matter how great the software is, if you don't like or trust the vendor you're working with, it's not going to be a good fit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana helps us get tasks and projects organized. The messenger hub is helping us communicate better when discussing and sharing files among the team. Asana has improved our project collaboration and helped with tracking the project progress percentage.
  • The main drag & drop feature allows us to upload documents, photos, and web links directly into the task.
  • Asana provides the ability to collaborate with colleagues on tasks, which helps us keep track of progress and improve productivity.
  • We can easily generate reports and share them across the platform.
  • It is quite difficult to manage complex projects.
  • Integration of other tools with Asana is not that great. Payment is required for those additional integrations.
  • There should be user control to delete the people from teams and projects in a much easier way.
Asana is a great application for your project management. It provides delightful features like a task scheduler, free mail notifications, unlimited teams, messaging, activity logs, file storage, and much more. It has a great dashboard with a better interface that is easy to understand and provides us with a faster way of doing project management. I recommend this product for all companies that use the agile development process.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is used by our corporate team to coordinate departmental efforts; however, it is not used by our operational project management teams. The goal of using Asana was to expedite updates and collaboration efforts between various groups (Acc, HR, Ops, IT, Marketing, etc.) when working together and executing on corporate initiatives.
  • Sub-tasking under a primary task (having individual assignments/commentary etc. on subtasks).
  • Summation of individual tasks across multiple projects.
  • Setting recurring tasks/templates.
  • Ability to milestone/use dependencies.
  • Some integrations with Microsoft Outlook struggle.
  • Offline access on mobile and desktop.
  • Assigning difficulty and required effort for resource planning.
The program works really well for general task management on an individual level. If you are looking for something that can organize tasks and flow between mobile and desktop, Asana is a great tool.

Asana shines in team collaboration when trying to organize tasks and streamline communication among multiple users.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Asana as a management tool for tasks/meetings in a small technological company.
We mainly use Asana for: tasks allocation, tasks reminder, "online agenda" for online crew meetings.
Asana is used both for technical and business related tasks and projects.
Asana is easy to use and does not require any software installation, so it is used widely in our organization for different types of tasks.
  • Easy to use by any user (good UX and no installation needed)
  • Easy to create a simple project, add tasks and sub tasks.
  • Different display options, according to the project/tasks type
  • Works great using a web browser, you don't have to install the application
  • Asana is not really a project management tool, it is good for simple projects only
  • UI has some glitches (doesn't save preferences, etc.)
  • Integration with other tools (Office 365, MS Project)
  • No reminders if the working period you entered is on holidays
Asana is a great tool for simple tasks, but only for simple ones. But, don't forget that most of the tasks are usually simple. So, Asana can be used as a great personal task management system, online agenda for meetings, simple tasks allocation tool and even an easy to use management tool for simple projects. One of the main advantages of Asana is the ease of use, so even if it is not perfect anyone can use it, and if you use any management tool it is much better than nothing.
Val Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Asana is being used in our organisation for creating projects and adding tasks, which I find incredible since I can appropriately track my projects and daily activities.
  • Creating projects.
  • Assigning tasks to various persona.
  • Tracking all projects.
  • Asana has great features that are efficient may be as time goes by they improve Kanban board and Gantt although it is still great.
  • I think Asana should allow for working without Internet.
  • Asana should also provide more analytical tools.
Asana is appropriate to organizations that want to greatly plan and track projects at ease. The features are magnificent in that via it you can assign tasks to people and track those tasks efficiently.
Asana also provides daily reports about work also helps to gauge progress. It also provides excellent user friendly facility to manage tasks.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Asana to manage a few aspects within our small business. The tool works great for having virtual meetings where a task can be used to capture the meeting minutes and sub-tasks can be used to allocate the action plan items to the specific meeting delegates. We also use Asana for high-level strategy and goal setting as well as day-to-day task allocation and tracking.
  • Task allocation and Tracking
  • Virtual Meeting management covering the agenda, feedback and next action steps
  • Task collaboration with a wide range of features to keep all kinds of task info in one space
  • User experience with task views in list or kanban format
  • Some users might find the user interface a bit dull and un inspired
  • We found the way to use multiple workspaces a bit confusing
  • It takes quite a bit of planning to build a well organized workspace in order not to have way too many projects and tasks all over the place
I believe for a new user it would be great to start with one, relatively small, project with a maximum of 3 collaborators. This would allow a quick tutorial or two to get them going and get good value from the platform. If the individuals liked the experience, then Asana would really be useful in taking on a larger project or even a few projects in parallel.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our marketing agency is using Asana as a Project Management tool across all departments. The first problem that Asana helps to address is keeping track of different campaign projects and making sure that we are on track with all deadlines. It's super helpful to keeping everyone working on each account organized. Asana also allows for full visibility into projects that other departments are working on, and this level of transparency is so important while we continue to work remotely!
  • Asana integrates seamlessly with our other project management tools like Slack, Everhour, and G Suite Apps, making it easy to keep track of everything in one place!
  • We frequently set up Projects with the 'Kanban Boards' and this layout is perfect for showing us what items within a project have not yet been started, what's currently in progress, what is complete, and what may be held up by outside circumstances.
  • The Project Calendars are great visual tools that we frequently share with our clients to give them a visual of their project timeline. They love this view because it's so easy to understand!
  • Our biggest pain point is around recurring tasks. Right now, when you set a task to be recurring, only that first instance of the task will display for a user and the remaining tasks will not display until the previous task was completed. It would be nice to see all occurrences of a repeating task so that we can better project workload/ bandwidth of team members.
Asana is best suited for management of a project and all it's tasks from inception all the way through to completion. While Tasks allow for comments and conversation between team members, we found that it's best to still use other tools (like Slack) for regular communication and collaboration between team members.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Asana to track our client services and implementations. It was a great tool that had the ability to add clients and integrate work spaces. Some clients found it hard to learn and use, but once they got used to it, everything worked smoothly.
  • Gantt Charts
  • Calendars
  • Resource planning
  • User interface was hard to figure out for some clients
Asana is well suited for companies with experienced project managers and clients that are used to using a PM tool like this. Others can learn and do well, but it did take a little bit of time and training for us to fully utilize the tool.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used mainly by the Creative department but other departments that need to request projects do so from Asana.
  • Keeps project on task.
  • Allows us to easily assign tasks and deadlines.
  • Cross functional oversight.
  • It's not the most user friendly, so many features make it overwhelming for new users.
Asana is definitely a useful and top-of-the-line collaboration tool. It has all of the basic features plus the capability for advancements if you have an Asana Pro on the team. We mainly use it for Creative team requests across the company which has been very helpful.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asana is used across the organization by different departments and project teams. It mainly addresses project management needs for projects within the organization and helps to provide a way for project teams to track progress, assign tasks, communicate across different teams, and manage the timelines related to projects. Overall it helps with project coordination and many teams elect to use it.
  • Great user interface, attractive and fun to use
  • Task assignment to individuals
  • Workspace customization to needs of the project
  • Better integration with the Microsoft suite of products
  • Better large scale visualizations
  • Difficult to adjust notification settings and sync across calendars
Asana is great for organization across a team or across a project since its UI is much better and easier to use than more complicated project planning interfaces and project management software. It’s less well suited to manage projects across an organization since it doesn’t handle budgets or integrate with things like Microsoft project as well so it’s strength are more towards project vs portfolio management.
Score 8 out of 10
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Asana is being used not across the whole company. We use it in our department with 4 different functions/ directions and with 19 team members. We set tasks, track activities on those tasks, interact with each other.
We also have the Ideas section in all the projects and add all fresh ideas there. Those are not tasks (with deadlines, goals, milestones), but raw ideas that we don't want to forget. When the planning period comes, we address those sections to convert ideas into tasks for the next periods.
  • Tracking progress.
  • Keeping all tasks and ideas together.
  • Easy to navigate UI.
  • Custom tags.
  • Canned reports/ filters: My tasks, Tasks I've Created, Recently Completed Tasks, etc.
  • I miss some proactive projects recommendations by Asana, e.g.: We recommend you to add subtasks or divide the tasks into sections.
  • I miss some proactive tasks recommendations by Asana e.g.: Hey, we've noticed that there are no activities here. How's it going with this task?
  • I wish the Workload feature was in the Free or Premium option.
All your tasks and activities [are] gathered in one place. I like the scenario with reporting for the period. You just set some filters like "tasks completed in the previous month" and you have all those.
I also find it very useful to see the calendar and all the tasks showed in it divided by deadlines.
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