Am I the only one that has tried asana multiple times and given up after each major iteration?
Anyone here that actually had to use Asana, and somehow found it beneficial/useful? How?
Beyond that, I don't like how their board view (Kanban style) is hacked on and doesn't coexist with the list view yet, and a lot of the more complex stuff is done better elsewhere.
I have only found it useful for the most basic of tasks (like a personal priority list) or a single project's sprint tracking. It falls apart terribly when you need to introduce any sort of collaboration and process.
Compare that to something like JIRA. JIRA has a high floor, but can be very useful as long as people don't go crazy.
I'd expect those two premises to be highly correlated if not for funding.
Big fan of gravitas in the workplace. Probably because I'm over 40 (thus not qualified for "diversity") but wow, how does any work get done from the photos? Looks like something straight out of my elementary school in the 70's.
Guess truth be told I like working from my couch. No diversity teams blowing soap bubbles. No "Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking". Limited opportunity to play political games over Slack.
Although we will see if Asana lasts as long as IBM. Guessing not. And they seem to be a little further along the social engineering scale than Google is.
If people enjoy working in that kind of environment, fantastic. But it really looks like it would drive me bonkers and I'd long for a bland cubical with a neckbeard neighbor who didn't really like people.
It just isn't working well. Empty tasks get generated, it takes 3 clicks to remove them for example.
It is not as easy to organize work.
I love Asana though. I put everything in there and have it hooked up to Alexa. The only downside is that I put everything in there. I haven't had a morning email with less than 30 tasks in over a year.
The other problem with PT is that it promotes a bottom-up view of your project rather than a top-down view. You end up missing the forest for the trees. With Trello, I can create a list for a high-level goal like "Validate that users want the features we're building" and then list sub-tasks within that.