Asana

As a CEO and Founder of Transformed Pty Ltd, I am sharing my experience of using Asana Software:



Pros:

- Its free up to 10 users

- can be used by virtual teams operating around the world

- easy to use

- better than using email and other approaches - updates and comments can be provided in Asana (via a web interface or via the Asana app on your phone), so your email box doesn't get cluttered up.

- for managers, you don't need to constantly ask for an update as to where things are at - you can just look at the various tasks and see for yourself. 



Cons:

- Haven't really had any major issues with Asana,

- The only limitations I can see is that: it can't give you a staff/resource-centric view so you can see what each staff member is working on. The Gantt chart/schedule view doesn't calculate critical path, like a dedicated scheduling tool - this is really only something that high-end scheduling and professional services firms are likely to need/use

- The biggest challenge is to get everyone in the team to use Asana and regularly update status/progress.

As an Owner of Hustling Hotties, here I am sharing my views regarding Asana Software:

I love that it is set up as a to-do list system. I do not like that it doesn't have a chat system integrated. I have to connect it with slack in order to get that functionality. Overall as an Owner of Infusion Enterprises, I think it is the best project management software currently available. 

It really depends on what you need from a project management tool, but the fact that Asana is so flexible makes it applicable to almost any industry or project. Using Asana, as a founder of The Digital Project Manager, I feel that the Kanban-style boards are intuitive, making it easy to visually organize and prioritize work—it’s sleek with a clutter-free design, and if you require something that Asana doesn’t offer, it offers an impressive number of pre-built integrations. While it’s not something I’d recommend for enterprise-level or mission-critical organizations, it’s definitely a versatile and useful productivity tool that you can adapt to a wide range of projects. This makes it an especially good fit for creative teams and agencies (marketing, publishing, design, video) who need a task management tool that can accommodate a wide variety of work, people, timelines, and moving parts, both simultaneously and over time.

Thanks to Asana, the team of Maple Holistics can really thrive in their element. In the old days, finding and harnessing talent was a hit-or-miss game that always ended up taking a lot of time and energy and wouldn’t allow us to keep all of our talents. With Asana, our staff can self-govern and send out creative ideas as they come and can be voted on by the staff to help order its importance. There’s no need to wait for approval and it’s easy to track accountability.

Below sharing the reviews by the experts of TimePayment Corp for the software Asana. My favorite part of using Asana is its list like tracking functionality, and ability to cross things off once completed. I found it to be not much better than using a paper and pencil list, however, and would not pay for it again in the future.

Pros: The experts of LogoMix love using the new project boards feature that has tasks laid out in more of a calendar-like style. Asana is also unique in that you can assign priority levels to a task and mark the status of each task ("In Progress, Paused, etc).

Cons: One of the more frustrating elements about the platform easily has to be that you cannot assign a task to multiple people.

Overall: Asana has one of the cleanest interfaces we've seen yet from a task management tool; it isn't bogged down with extra features which makes tracking projects easy.

As Director of Systems Design of Gulf Coast Web Net, sharing below my experience of Asana.

Pros

• Easy to use. 
• I like the way I can look at my tasks in list, timeline or calendar format.
• Duplicate feature allows me to have a standard set of tasks for onboarding a client that I can reuse.
• Color tags help me easily visualize tasks. For example, I use orange to designate a client event. That way I know I have to accomplish that task on that day and not let it slide.
• Repeat tasks are a must, but I really like the repeat that will repeat the task 7 days after I complete it. That way I can let it slide a day or two and I don't need to re-adjust all the future tasks. 

Cons

• When I duplicate a task or project the notes stored on the project aren't duplicated. Often I use the notes to add links to resources I need for the task, or a boilerplate for a letter, etc.
• I wish that when I completed a sub-task on a project it would disappear rather than being greyed out.
• You have to know that if you put a colon (:) after a task, it becomes a project. It would be nice to have a button that made that function clearer to the user.

Pros: It's easy to share with individuals outside of the organization and still control the flow of information.

Cons: It can be challenging to find the information you need via search.

Pros: Cost

Cons: User interface isn't always the most helpful.

Pros: Easy to learn and use

Cons: Notifications system