Asana

“i have applied to very few places that would consider the google or asana certs, but if you're applying primarily to small companies, nonprofits, and/or startups, maybe. if you're applying to epmo project coordinator or analyst roles at large corporations, i would go with the capm.”

“Someone said the Google PM Cert, along with taking Lean six sigma white belt, and Asana workflow specialist cert, are better than the CAPM.”

“I’ve been having issues with asana for over a week, it’s really really slow with automations taking an age to run. This isn’t just me, it’s my team as well. Does anyone know how to pinpoint the issue?”

“I'm a big proponent of Asana for project management. I think Notion is a little overkill...what notes/knowledge are you trying to capture?”

“How do you keep Asana approvals tied to the exact revision of a generated deliverable?”

“I hate Asana so much must adopt another platform. What should I use?”

“And if you do keep both, the current Notion ↔ Asana connection is useful, but **it’s not a true bidirectional sync**: Asana remains the source of truth for synced tasks/projects.”

“Tried Asana and Monday too and neither really clicked, so I ended up building my own board. For a personal list though, Trello's fine.”

“We use Asana in our office. Its a project/task management tool that you can assign tasks to certain people with deadlines as well. We find it useful especially for big projects that have a lot of random little tasks that various people need to complete over several months.”

“What Asana can do that Notion cannot?”

“I'd keep tasks in Asana and use Notion only if the docs need more structure than Google Docs gives you. The annoying bit is maintaining the link between a task and the current doc, not having two apps open.”

“You can get most of the way there natively, but the trick is to stop trying to sync the project dates, because Asana has no trigger for a project's date changing. That's why every workaround turns into manual upkeep.”

“We are moving up to Enterprise soon. Waiting on the contract to go through. I already used Claude connected to Asana.”

“What plan of asana are you on (advanced, enterprise)? You could either set the workflow up on your own with a bit of testing and tweaking (and likely some change management/training with your execs) or you could work with a services partner to set it up and train with you for a cost (would highly recommend this)”

“It helps me because I forget to look at Asana or Linear, and things just fall off. This way, everyone is accountable and no one has to remember anything.”

“When you scale past a few people, tools like Trello or Asana become digital clutter if tracking isn't automated. Curious, are you currently using any centralized dashboard to track client onboarding and deliverables, or is everything manual?”

“We use asana because I found it simplest. Claude integrates with it now so I can tell it to do most things in there for me.”

“Monday and Asana are the opposite, general purpose boards that you have to bend into an AEC shape yourself. If your office is already in Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud is worth a look too since it ties submittal tracking back to the model directly instead of living as a separate log.”

“Is there a way to prevent task completion while subtasks are open in Asana?”

“Nothing fancy, but it cut out the part of my day where I'd copy-paste order info into Asana by hand. The part that surprised me was how well it handled messy/inconsistent email formats from different customers without me having to write parsing rules for each one.”

“Asana bought stackAI to solve for work data disconnect across apps that work alongside Asana. Much more scalable across use cases.”

“Could help asana bring more company data knowledge for their ai teammates to be able to be more successful.”

“Asana is the first choice and it's not even close. MS Planner 3 or whatever if you have public service IT restrictions.”

“Asana (or Microsoft Planner). Something, anything. It’s a must. It’s changed how I run the team.”

“However, Asana doesn't have a single, unified hub for all workspaces. So, I copy tasks and deadlines over to Todoist, which I use exclusively. I used to use Pleexy to link Asana and Todoist, but my colleagues in Asana often fail to name tasks correctly, assign the right person, or place the task in the correct project.”