Asana Reviews & Product Details

The interface is beautiful and the gamified tweaks, like celebrations after completing tasks, make Asana fun to use. A fun user experience is the single most important factor in long-term use, in my opinion. I also love that Asana constantly solicits user feedback via platforms like the Asana Forum.

Some of the integrations for essential functions need work. For example, integrations to Google Calendar are one-way, and Slack integrations either mean EVERY single change to a project is posted to the connected channel, or nothing is. There are also some features, like Goals and Reporting, which could be expanded. However, the bottom line for me is that Asana rolls out updates frequently; I know that fixes are coming, even if they don't make it into the next update.

At my company, much of the "work about work" that goes into key job functions is not identified or well-known outside of the person responsible for completing the task. I use the Portfolios, Reporting, and Goals tools to quantify how much of my time is spent on data entry (work about work) vs. core responsibilities for my manager. Asana has helped me build a business case for growing our team and creating a formal process for allocating resources (like time and money) to projects by presenting the data in a manner that is compelling to my leadership team.

I love Asana for keeping track of my work and ensuring projects are on-track. It's so helpful to have an interactive, collaborative "to-do list" so my mind can focus on the work it needs to and not on "Who's doing what?" "What info do I still need to share?" "Did I send this for approval?!"

Honestly, I love almost everything about Asana. One of my big wishes would be the ability to rename the default fields. Example: change "Due Date" to "In-Hand Date" or "Event Date." (It's helpful having the Dates custom field as a work-around, but still). Or, instead of "Assignee," having the option to rename that as "Project Manager." (Again, the People custom field is a handy workaround.) Also, can we make the "Saved Searches" sidebar collapsible?? It's so rarely used by anyone in our org and takes up a big chunk of the sidebar. Oh! The one thing I really hate is the "teasing" of features for Premium members. i.e. The "upgrade" button in the upper-left, Portfolios and Goals in the sidebar, etc. It's very confusing for several members on my team and clutters up the space.

It solves the question of "who's doing what by when," dramatically reduces the chances of something being missed or forgotten, and reduces the hunt for information pertaining to projects (email vs. chat vs. file storage vs. etc.)

tons of room for information, very clear what's in there and what's not and great tool for communication between teams

Requires human effort to remember to use it and make it a habit, doesn't come naturally to some people, so not sure what's missing that could fix that

Ability to task work and share information is vital for keeping it out of slack or email where it can get totally lost

The capacity of adaptation of the tool to various need

Administration dashboard should be accessible in the free plan

Project management following crossing with 1:1 weekly review

I love Asana because it's easy to use. Such a relieve to onboard new users in my team to use the app. Beside that, we have been using it since 2018 and haven't noticed any slow down in loading all the tasks!

The free features keep decreasing. I understand this from the business point of view, but some features should have been in the free tier instead of paid one. Also, the subscription is a bit steep if you're not doing business in USD.

Asana solve the problems of task management and task delegation because it has all the histories. It keeps getting better without adding too much features like other competitors do.

That you can create multiple boards in one project and then also zaps to send tasks to the right board depending on multiple outcomes.

I'm not sure yet, I learn more and more about what I can do each day.

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As someone who works in a very collaborative role in Marketing - Asana is absolutely invaluable to me. The time that I previously would have spent tracking down updates can now be spent doing the actual work of my role!

The biggest downside is that not everyone on my team is provisioned to use Asana or is not savvy with the platform. With a larger team and frequently added members it can be hard to keep up!

Asana solves the problem of visibility on our team. Whenever there's a request for a status update there's an easy place to point people to for answers. And it helps clean up my inboxes!

The ability to customize the structure from the organizational standpoint all the way down to each task.

The initial learning curve can be steep, but the payoff is rewarding if you're able to dedicate the time.

Keeping our team organized, especially when we went fully remote. We're able to keep all the information organized and in one place.

Subtask management is very helpful. Allowing multiple people to be assigned to the same task using subtasks without duplicating the parent task. Being able to audit number of tasks per team member is great too.

The boards can get a little wide and lots of scroll time. When they get too big we have to create a new board. It would be nice to have some features to manage the size of boards.

Asana is solving task and team management issues. Our team of 10 is able to collaborate and complete different pieces of a single task and know what each persons role is.

Asana is a centralized hub for storing project information. Instead of having separate spreadsheets, resourcing software and communications channels, Asana allows me to assign, track and communicate with stakeholders all in one place while also sending update notifications to Slack and Email.

Asana can be a bit overwhelming at first for those not used to such a comprehensive tool, but the onboarding video series is a great resource to help less tech-savvy folks learn how to use it at their own pace.

Asana helps my team manage resources, schedules and workflows at a project and portfolio level. We can also track our performance metrics and share progress updates with all stakeholders in-app or choose to export reports.

The amount of features and filtering possible make it easy to make sure tasks are organized, on track, and going in the right direction. Collaboration is so easy when a team is using Asana in a consistent manner.

Sometimes, everyone uses Asana in different ways. This makes it hard to stay in sync and keep everyone on the same page. I'd love to see more functionality with Rules across projects, more ways to report on work, and ways to recover orphan tasks so nothing gets lost.

it's easy to tell who is working on what and being able to see where our capacity issues and bottlenecks stem from. When we are able to identify what tasks are consistently getting left behind, we are able to plan an actionable fix. The team is definitely more in sync now and it's great to be able to see the progress on things as we go.

The automations and integrations - and the fact that there is continuous progress on feature releases and updates!

It seems like whenever a feature is released, there is a partial or major platform outage.

Asana is robust enough to make it easy for all teams to adopt its usage. As a result, we are able to keep all of our projects in one place which makes collaboration a breeze.

Asana is really intuitive, so I could easily onboard the tool in my team. The timeline views help me to have a better understanding on dependencies and timelines.

The high cost per license is the big disadvantage. It is not easy to get enough bugdet for the whole project group to grant access to the tool. Despite that, I would like to see sub-tasks in the timeline view to support my planing.

Asana is solving cross-department projects in my company. Before it was relly hard to manage these projects and now we can easily communicate deadlines and give ownership to people using the tool.

I love how easy Asana is to learn, and the ability to move tasks around and add collaborators and followers is fantastic!

You can't change your profile color, which is a pretty minor complaint.

Recurring tasks that I need to stay on top of are always loaded into my Asana. Organizing tasks within various projects, as well.

Asana helps me manage my day-to-day work and coordinate with colleagues, gives me a clear overview of the progress of my work, and has great customer support

It would be great if we could pay less for the freelancers and project-based people who are part of our workspace as "members" and not as guests

Asana helps me execute business projects and keep track of all the stakeholders I have to manage (I can check who still needs to give me feedback, who has questions, etc.)

I like the ability to see tasks at a glance across all projects. I also like the many features within the tasks such as adding a Google Doc, comments, tagging other users. I also really enjoy the completion animations.

I really wish we could assign a task to multiple people. We have some things that multiple people work on and it's necessary they share in the task and subtasks. Its easy to overlook the other persons contributions when they are not assigned the task.

Asana has allowed us to track projects across departments. It has also helped us streamline some of our request processes and procedures by using Asana Forms and automations.

Easy accessibility and simplicity, regardless of level of previous knowledge in usage of group project organizing/teaching programs.

Commission-based affiliate/referral program option and more visual aesthetics please.

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Asana keeps us on task and focused during our work weeks and meetings. This has greatly increased our productivity.

We are not a fan of the updated pricing tiers and limited abilities of the goals section.

It keeps us on track and prevents things from slipping through the cracks.

All of the integrations it allows with other programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Teams, and more. It allows work to be streamlined and organized to get more done in less time.

It allows so many sub-tasks that you can lose things amidst the sub task after sub task. Also there is no native desktop app. Lastly, it only allows many teams but I wish there were sub teams.

Getting projects and teams in line with tasks and accountability of work getting done. It allows us to braindump all tasks knowing we can come into work and rely on Asana to guide our day rather than trying to hold todo lists in our mind or writing them down and losing it.

Super intuitive, customisable and easy to collaborate with my team. There are lots of bite size video tutorials.

Cross-collaboration between projects is not straightforward. It's a tool you have to use daily to get the most out of it.

Team project management, workflow management working with my team, delegating tasks, understanding workload and visibility of projects in the business.