The best project management tool for small business/ teams (especially ones that can't afford a full time PM).
May 13, 2021
The best project management tool for small business/ teams (especially ones that can't afford a full time PM).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Asana
We use Asana pretty extensively throughout our organization. It's used by the Product & Engineering team to manage our bi-weekly sprints along with backlog projects for each of our sites. The Finance/ HR team uses templated projects for onboarding & offboarding employees. The marketing & design teams use it to coordinate for client projects.
The best thing about Asana is just how quickly and eagerly everyone was to start using it. It required almost no formal training because it's so intuitive and as a result has a MUCH higher adoption rate than with our previous solution (Wrike).
The best thing about Asana is just how quickly and eagerly everyone was to start using it. It required almost no formal training because it's so intuitive and as a result has a MUCH higher adoption rate than with our previous solution (Wrike).
- Easy to Use / intuitive.
- Powerful task management features.
- Self service/ training for teams to adopt.
- Reporting is simplistic.
- Doesn't "chase" users to complete items like some PM solutions.
- Projects don't auto-archive.
- Ease of Use.
- Simplicity.
- Non-mandatory fields.
- We have a much better overview of our backlogs for projects.
- We have much higher adoption throughout the company with a PM solution.
- We're able to collaborate across teams better.
Wrike is similar but JUST a bit more cumbersome in every way. So if something takes 1-2 clicks in Asana it will take 3-4 in Wrike. Just enough of a lift that it makes it hard for people to just get started working. Instead, you must change your employees to think the way that Wrike wants you to by giving them dedicated training.
[In my experience,] Jira just plain sucks in comparison. If something takes 1-2 clicks in Asana it takes 10 or more in Jira. Jira FORCES you to enter everything right away and just is painful and cumbersome. There is ZERO chance I could have deployed Jira to the marketing, design & finance teams and had them use it in any serious way because of how painful it is and how specific it is to a particular type of software development.
[In my experience,] Jira just plain sucks in comparison. If something takes 1-2 clicks in Asana it takes 10 or more in Jira. Jira FORCES you to enter everything right away and just is painful and cumbersome. There is ZERO chance I could have deployed Jira to the marketing, design & finance teams and had them use it in any serious way because of how painful it is and how specific it is to a particular type of software development.
Do you think Asana delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Asana's feature set?
Yes
Did Asana live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Asana go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Asana again?
Yes