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Nope. I'd like to hire their sales/marketing people though, for they seem to have an uncanny ability to solution sell it to execs who will then force it down on their organizations. :P

Anyone here that actually had to use Asana, and somehow found it beneficial/useful? How?

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I like the fact that the list view is more like a notepad where you can just keep typing. Many other task list tools make you hit a few extra keys to create tasks and most of the time you just need a simple todo list. It makes it easier to convince others to use it too for the simple stuff.

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.

It was better than nothing. But only slightly.

We tried a LOT of tools and Asana has been by far the best. Even just finding a product that had dependencies, gantt charting, and decent multi-user support was nearly impossible.

Have you looked at Paymo? http://www.paymoapp.com

Its ceiling is too low.

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.

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