Good if you successfully implement it
January 29, 2018
Good if you successfully implement it
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Asana
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
- Able to quantitatively track team members' progress across tasks - and reach out when things are slipping on projects
- Expensive for the amount of time we spend using this platform
Asana Feature Ratings
Using Asana
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Well integrated Feel confident using | Unnecessarily complex Difficult to use Requires technical support Slow to learn Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- Adding individual tasks
- Assigning tasks to others on the team
- Forwarding mail to tasks
- Adding deadlines
- Creating complex project flows and subtasks
- Setting up daily tasks by time of day