We are seeing an increasing number of clients select Asana as their project management tool of choice to help their teams organise and track their tasks and projects. Asana is a powerful tool for collaboration and productivity, but like any tool, it's important to use it effectively to get the most out of it. In this blog post, we'll explore our top ten best practices for using Asana. Define your projects and tasks clearly One of the key benefits of Asana is that it helps you break down your projects into smaller, more manageable tasks. However, to do this effectively, you need to ensure that your projects and tasks are defined clearly. Use descriptive titles formed of achievable actions and include all relevant information, such as due dates, subtasks, and attachments. Decide on a strategy and structure for setting up, running, and archiving projects We often see clients with hundreds of projects in their Asana list, many of which are obsolete or unused. Avoid clutter, and mak...

Alt Text: photo of a little girl wearing VR googles. Photo by  Giu Vicente on Unsplash When embarking on a digital transformation, or creating a new IT setup, it can be easy to focus on technology and forget about people - humans are inherently flexible and can adapt to whatever technical setup works best, right? However, consider the following story: a company has just installed some new software onto its computers. Rather than increasing productivity, however, the switch to the new software merely causes disruption. When they find the underlying cause of it, they find that the computers prefer the outdated version of the software (as it is better suited to their systems, they claim) and are refusing to use the new one…   This story is (obviously) untrue: despite recent advances in AI, our machines are a long way off this sort of sentience. However, if you replace the computers in the story with people, this becomes the sort of situation that many organisations face every day...