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Boards in Asana
- asurachadtrot 10y agoAsana+Trello
- Illniyar 10y agoAre they just now getting a kanban board? Or M I missing something?
- conqrr 10y agoBorrowing Ideas from Trello, it seems.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- jakubj 10y ago"Borrowing" like Instagram "borrowed" stories from Snapchat...
- sprice 10y agoWe're considering making the jump from Jira. Has anyone else done this? How did it go? I especially wonder how well Asana deals with estimating tasks.
- tablet 10y agoMost likely Asana will be too simple for you then. For example, you can't assign more that two people on a task and estimates are just custom fields that are not so ingrained into the system, so you'll have troubles with reports.
- knz 10y ago> For example, you can't assign more that two people on a task You can add as many people as you want at the project level but always assumed their philosophy was that that one person owns/completes individuals tasks/sub-tasks.
- tablet 10y agoThis is just a wishful thinking that does not reflect real life.
- keeptrying 10y agoVery bad sign when you start copying other companies in your space.
- grzm 10y ago"Great artists steal." I agree with the sentiment if that's the only thing you're doing, that you have nothing else in your business model than copying what someone else is doing. That's not necessarily the case here.
- chang2301 10y agoDisagree. Take Apple copied Android's drop down notification as the best example. And Apple did not go down after that.
- geniium 10y agoApple is going down!
- rhizome 10y agoSeems to be working well for LinkedIn.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- chang2301 10y agoThis Trello-like design is really good for visually tracking tasks in multiple projects. But I think the core problem of Asana losing users is about its performance. As a web-based platform, Asana's speed is slow enough to make me feel annoyed. When I tested it on Safari, it's even worse.
- kimshibal 10y agoI don't know why a todo list app can be so slow
- shostack 10y agoAre they in fact losing users?
- phasecode 10y agoThis becomes a huge problem when someone is linking you multiple tickets and you sit there waiting for asana to load. Even worse, I find that some basic features are still lacking such as the ability to strikethrough text.
- ktamiola 10y agoBoom! You nailed it buddy! We are having exactly the same problem!
- ashark 10y agoIt would help if their API were sane, and I could just write something to grab what I need on the command line or to a plain HTML/CSS page and never interact with their confusing, slow "web app", but it really, really isn't. I suspect that's a symptom of their backend being fairly dumb, which is (a big part of) why the frontend is so damn heavy and sluggish. Seems like an early (poor) architecture decision. (yes, there are some command line tools that people have written, but they're too limited, for this reason, unless something's changed in the last ~6 months since I last looked at them)
- praecipula 10y ago
- dreyfan 10y agoDustin & Justin: Can we get a company value statement (preferably one that states Asana is firmly against the campaign values of Trump) and public distance yourself from your primary investor Peter Thiel?
- ci5er 10y agoHow can be alienating half of America by taking this stand, instead of remaining silent on the point and a maintaining a non-ideological product/business stance, be a good idea for them?
- dreyfan 10y agoBecause remaining silent is a tacit endorsement of the hatred, xenophobia, racism, misogyny, antisemitism, and white nationalism that are the core values of Trump and many (absolutely nowhere near 'half of America') of his followers.
- MustrumRidcully 10y agoIt's funny how american leftists are using today the exact same witch-hunting techniques as the anti-communists of the 50's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
- lovich 10y agoDoes that have anything to do with the release we are looking at?
- us0r 10y ago"For the 2016 United States Presidential election, Moskovitz announced that he and his wife are donating $20 million to support Hillary Clinton"[0] Is that not a good enough statement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz
- sn41 10y agoI have tried rather hard to get Asana going for a small team. This was about 2 years ago. I did not find it very attractive. At that time, the inability to get all the tasks across projects in a single page was frustrating. Is there anyone who has found Asana an addition over JIRA, for example? A convincing explanation would be very helpful.
- shostack 10y agoOur cross-functional marketing team straddles Trello, Asana, and misc. docs in Google Drive. I've found that the creatives on the team (writers, designers, etc.) all hate Asana, but they also don't necessarily love Trello. So I'm hunting for a system that is visually simple and can take only a few seconds to learn and use. I just came across DaPulse (no affiliation) and the screenshots and video seem interesting, but I need to play with it to see if it supports the various things we need (multiple milestones, dependencies, owners, and a good way of rolling that up to an executive dashboard that gets rid of all the minutiae). Also, that is one of the worst brand names I've seen in a while, but hey, if it works who cares. The problem with project management tools is that if you can't get a team to use them religiously, they can do more harm than good. The second things start getting sent in email or posted in Slack and NOT captured in the tool, things break down. And if people forget to check things in the tool to stay on top of their notifications, items needing responses, etc. and update their respective pieces, then you might as well use nothing.
- kayoone 10y agohow about good old basecamp ?
- arnorhs 10y agoThe core problem with Basecamp is: - it groups teams into projects - so if you start a new project, you have to invite people to that project and each projet is very isolated (aside from some global feeds that show stuff from all projects) - if you try to use a project as a wrapper around teams, you don't have any sub tasks under tasks or a way to create a mini project within a project -- you can create task groups, and they can kind of be a project within a project, but they're a bit too simplified. - tasks only have two states: done and not done. this is not very accommodating for any kind of a QA process, reviewing etc. Unless you create multiple tasks for each individual task, or you use the task groups to move tasks between them. (or use person-assignment to imply state) - it can be difficult to drill down and figure out things about a task - eg. when it was created and who created it etc. This may be some enterprise feature I'm not aware of. on a side note, i've seen some very buggy behavior when moving tasks between task groups, but that's probably just a bug that can be fixed.
- npunt 10y agoHappy they're diving into boards. Just tried it out and it's pretty barebones. But that's okay, it'll grow. The big issue though is Asana still has a big design & usability problem, which is especially pronounced in comparison with their new competitor Trello. Visually, Asana has exceedingly low contrast between items and favors shades of very light grey, which is only made worse with small fonts and icons, and non-hidpi displays. Greyscale UIs are okay if color is used sparingly on key actions, but even the colors don't make much sense - yellow upgrade button, red/orange project adder (which, unlike in the blog post, doesn't even present me with the option to add boards), pink (in my case) user presence circle, blue dot for a task mark. It's all kind of a jumble when starting out, and the most straightforward action (add a task) is entirely invisible until mousing over. The info hierarchy is also totally puzzling in Asana - what is an entirely different project(? not sure the lingo) versus a within-project 'project' versus todos and other stuff in there. They're all jumbled together, unlabeled, in both top nav and user presence menu, and it makes me think twice before doing something like inviting a collaborator (because I don't know what view I'm inviting them to). Plus the tasks/inbox/dashboard tabs then have sub tabs in them that don't make much sense as to why they're there. And view changes are slow. It looks like an attempt at simplicity that misses the mark on which things to simplify. Meanwhile Trello delineates the various hierarchies (boards, lists, cards) very well. Trello has clear distinction between cross-board stuff situated in the top nav (boards, search, trello logo, user presence), followed by within-board contents in the second to top nav (board name, star, privacy, and link for menu), followed by lists and cards. Trello also has a board index where you can see all your boards and which ones are part of which organizations. To charitably interpret this, I'd say that Trello is designed to support many boards for different things, whereas Asana's interface is built around a single main project(?), and doesn't scale well to many unrelated projects. Trello has a low barrier to entry but lacks detailed collaborative project management tools out of the box, and focuses on an ecosystem of powerups, where Asana has more features but you're stuck with all of them and has high initial cognitive load. This means Trello is a good tool for casual usage, and can scale to some degree of complex projects. Asana looks like it is made for complex projects run in a particular way with lots of information density, but introduces too many concepts and lays them out too haphazardly to be useful for casual projects or casual usage. I think that introduces a big friction point for adoption across teams, as it doesn't do service to users that aren't interacting with the tool super frequently. I guess another way to put it is Asana feels enterprise-y in execution. Meanwhile Trello feels like a true consumer product, and like Slack, is part of a breed of consumer-to-enterprise plays that are nailing it by starting simple. I really like that Asana is acknowledging in this post that there are many different processes users adopt to tackle projects, as overly opinionated designs in the productivity space will limit addressable market significantly. Adding more views & workflows that all are tied to your data is great. Wish the UI/UX were a lot better.
- openclosed 10y agoSerious question: How does this make it to the front page? Unless I missed something, it's a basic feature, and doesn't seem even remotely innovative.
- jschulenklopper 10y agoTechnically, because enough people upvote it, up to a level that makes it visible on the front page. And it appears that this feature, although not new in the world of Trello, Microsoft Teams, GitLab cards, is new for Asana: "With this initial version of Boards, visual thinkers can now organize and track their work from within Asana."
- the_duke 10y agoProbably because plenty of people are using Asana, and so are interested...
- goatherders 10y agoFive years ago I loved asana for its simplicity. I tried it again maybe a year ago and was shocked at how unfamiliar it felt. Haven't gone back. Just use pen and Paper now.
- motdiem 10y agoWe've been using Asana for a year now, and once you get the hang of it, it's really super efficient. But I wish Boards where a visualisation on a list rather of a new object, where we now have to decide for each project wether to use the list or board format. I'd love to have a system that allowed you to switch between both. And I'll echo the comments about Asana being to resource greedy. A combination of appear.in + asana will quickly bring chrome on its knee on my macbook pro, to the point that I'll sometime load it on my phone during meetings to avoid straining my machine....
- jeromeflipo 10y agoCheck out Kantree.io
- flavor8 10y agoYoutrack is an unsung hero in this space. It can easily be customized to a wide variety of workflows, and lets you view the same tickets as boards or lists. Plus, the Jetbrains team are helpful and responsive to feature requests.
- jbob2000 10y agoI use Youtrack at work and it suffers from being WAY too configurable, to the point that nobody uses it because you have to click SO MUCH to do anything. Every developer we hire has to sit and watch 10mins of videos so they know how to use it, yet every other issue track I've used has been immediately obvious as to how it is used. It does some really annoying things too, like hijack the history state of your browser, so pressing back and forward doesn't work as you'd expect (they have their own back button in the app, you're "supposed" to use that).
- flavor8 10y agoYou might have an old version; browser history works fine in version 7. You have to click far less than with asana or jira, so I don't know how you guys have it set up, but it's far from stock. Click to board (or set board as default view), filter, move tickets. That's all there is to it. It's leagues more efficient to use than jira.
- tkremer 10y agoAvaza has had really nice task Kanban & List views for a long time. It has the combined functionality of Asana + Trello + Harvest + Freshbooks in one seamless product.
- mariust 10y agoHave you heard about www.paymoapp.com - they have boards for quite a long time now, also Gantt is in private beta. The speed is quite good. I am using it for more than 2 years now.
- ceejay 10y agoI am happy to see this. I worked on a series of projects about 2 years ago where the company used Asana. It is probably just because of the way I think, and the way I go about solving problems, but I felt Asana (original) was ... underwhelming to say the least. Trello I immediately fell in love with when I learned about it, and have used it a ton now and still have the same feelings about it to this day.
- jiyinyiyong 10y agoAnyone noticed http://teambition.com http://teambition.com ?
- dbg31415 10y agoFeature wise... good step for Asana. They now have a feature that Basecamp doesn't offer... big step for them! Usability... slow load, sluggish drag... not loving it. UX... I freakin' hate it when boards don't show label names. I'm supposed to know what all my labels are via color? No way, what's this orange, vs slightly darker orange? Gonna stick with GitHub and ZenHub... and Unito for clients that just have to have Asana. * ZenHub - Agile GitHub Project Management Software || https://www.zenhub.com/ https://www.zenhub.com/ * Unito - Connect your project management tools and become your team's collaboration hero || https://unito.io/ https://unito.io/
- inthewoods 10y agoLike the new functionality (we use Asana across our company), but I wish it wasn't a separate project type. Seems like a no-brainer to just use section headers as columns and then be able to flip between the text-based version and a board-based system.
- misiti3780 10y agoI might try Asana again now that they have this feature. My company is about to move away from zenhub/github issues to jira but i am looking for decent alternatives. I hate trello, and asana always seemed feature-bloated + i hate their new UI. Any future plans to open source Luna ?
- gk1 10y agoA few people recommended clubhouse.io in this thread, so that might be one to look at.
- was_boring 10y agoI like the design, but have they fixed the other issues? The UX is awful to use, the search hardly finds things I'm interested in and opaque to filter, and I have a recurring task that has been going for a year and I cannot figure out how to stop it.
- gragas 10y agoSo how many places do I need to manage my boards now? Trello, GitHub, and now Asana as well? Why doesn't Slack add this feature while we're at it?
- unihuman 10y agoNotion is going to everybody's lunch! https://notion.so https://notion.so