We compared Asana and Monday based on our users’ reviews of Project Management Software. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Monday is considered better than Asana overall due to its wider range of features, including automation, tagging, and insights. Monday also offers more customization options and is more affordable. Asana is easy to use and good for collaboration but lacks some of the advanced features of Monday.com. Customer service for Asana is mixed, while Monday's technical support is consistently praised. Monday.com is seen as a cost-effective solution with a positive ROI.
"Asana has a wonderful user experience that is very easy to interact with and has tons of integrations with other products and tools."
"What I like most about Asana is its simplicity. For example: we're not the only ones using it, and we onboard our customers to it, and normally, they have no questions."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It was just a few clicks to get started and to integrate Asana into our existing business system. It took 15 days to fully implement our projects using Asana."
"Stable Kanban style tool for collaboration and task management. It runs smoothly and has a straightforward setup."
"The tool has a lot of integrations."
"The solution scales well."
"By using this software, I have adaptability in my work, and it can improve the production of our company."
"The ability to share projects and tasks among team members appears to be the most valuable feature."
"The solution can be customized for individual projects and quite easy to use."
"We use also integration with Jira, to see the updates so the CSM team can see the update from Jira."
"The most valuable feature of Monday.com is the ability we have to customize it to suit all of our needs."
"The newest feature of "My Work" is my favorite."
"It allows you to be granular, and send each step."
"I love how I can customize so many items on the boards to fit my exact needs."
"The team follow-up is really easy to do with just one click."
"It works perfectly and runs very smoothly."
"We don't get enough notifications."
"Having a quick way to do video inside the platform or video communication could be very handy."
"The documentation for integration could be improved. We require more information to facilitate the integrations."
"We have not used Asana on our private server. We have been using the cloud solution. We need an on premise solution for government agencies."
"In some instances, there were subtasks where more than one person needed to review it, but I could only assign it to one person. I would have to create a subtask under a subtask and then assign it to other people. This could be improved."
"Some customizations and functions are still not available, however, so far, they haven't been a deal killer."
"The mobile application of Asana has to be improved a lot because no one wants to do a complete project management task on mobile."
"Their workflows and automation could use a big improvement. I don't even know if they have anything in that regard right now. I would really love to see a way where you can send custom alerts based on a task's completion or status change or an approval coming through. I would love to see a way to get some low-code functionality into Asana because right now, that is a big miss."
"The site could load a bit faster."
"I work with many internet tabs open and would prefer having Monday.com as a separate program - not opened via the website."
"A part that could be improved is notifications, as we receive quite a lot of them. We struggled to limit the number of emails that we were not part of... If we could mute emails for projects that we are only following but not necessarily working directly on, that would make a huge difference."
"I'd love it if there was an instant messenger built into the product so I could talk with other teammates live in-product, as opposed to needing another solution like Slack, Google for chat, or Signal."
"If there was a way for Monday.com to take over, or interface with, my inbox, such that my email messages became associated with a particular task, group, or board, that would be incredibly useful."
"While great, the shareable boards lack some features that normal boards possess and that’s a big burden for us."
"I'd like to see some kind of way to display our data to realtor partners without giving them access to our entire board."
"Making adjustments to the My Work section that it includes deadlines for multiple columns on a board instead of just one would be very useful."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while monday.com is ranked 1st in Project Management Software with 222 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while monday.com is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Extremely stable, user-friendly, and easy to navigate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of monday.com writes "We can collaborate with our customers efficiently and professionally, and automation makes it easy for everyone". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, Jira and Trello, whereas monday.com is most compared with Wrike, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Zoho CRM, Odoo and Microsoft Project. See our Asana vs. monday.com report.
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This is a good question, but the starting point would be to understand whether your focus is on project management software or portfolio management software because there is a big difference between the two.
In terms of software, project management software is really focused on managing individual projects and can help communicate information about a specific project. Project management software is commonly used by Project Managers and the project team members. Portfolio management software though is focused on the entire portfolio of projects to give senior leaders holistic visibility of those projects. Portfolio management software helps senior leaders to make better strategic decisions. Check out this article for more information on this topic: https://acuityppm.com/project-...
Hi Netanya, for complez projects I recommend Basecamp or Microsoft Project, but for small or low complexity projects I suggest Trello. Best regards.
Hi Netanya,
If you want to reach a quick-wins at the portfolio level with an intelligent algorithmic and automated approach please look at my favourite tool called Aangine.
It gives you capabilities to run multiple What-if scenarios at the portfolio level, considering various constraints on capacity, budgets, timing and prioritization. It helps PMOs/SPMs very quickly to perform risk & value analysis and run impacts analysis to see what happens if suddenly priorities/capacity/budget will be changed. Visibility on future horizons, possibly bottlenecks and risks gives you the opportunity to compare and run an intelligent algorithm to optimise your future portfolio within a new reality immediately. As an outcome, in the first couple of quarters, you will get significant results on your execution side of the way of working.
Regarding the execution part of the delivery for the corporate customers, I would recommend Micro Focus PPM review.
Kind regards,
I. Bayraktar
I’ve used Trello, Asana, and Monday.com.
My favorite by far is ClickUp due to following reasons:
1. It’s inexpensive.
2. Support is great.
3. Very flexible - we do sprints with points and it’s great for this.
4. They are constantly launching new improvements.
5. Most important - my team loves ClickUp and actually uses it! We particularly like the goals feature.
Jira is what we currently use and I have no complaints about it at all.
Since 1998 I have been using the Planisware project portfolio management solution for multiple pharma organizations.
The application initially had the esoteric name OPX2. For easier international name recognition, its name sensibly became Planisware in 2009 with the release of P5. Subsequent releases of Planisware P5 and Planisware P6 (or V6) and currently Planisware Enterprise (E7) have brought substantive improvements to the stakeholder community in user interface, capabilities, reporting, and performance.
Planisware documentation has evolved markedly with more frequent publishing of detailed functional guides, videos, and release notes, available online for customers and from within the application. For example, the fifth set of release notes for E7, specifically 7.0.4; March 2022, is 133 pages long. Planisware Academy is another tool for gaining proficiency with project and portfolio management.
What I especially enjoy with Planisware is unsurpassed flexibility for managing project activities--not just as list tables and Gantt charts, but also with Kanban cards, roadmaps, stage and gates, deliverables, ideas, etc. Modules for resource management and cost management have similar depth of execution. Another module for tracking risks and opportunities is selectable when needed.
Planisware's implementation of activity types as a discrete breakdown structure facilitates the use of consistent, defined activities across projects and improves the accuracy of planning.
Project templates and activity library features are valuable for creating new projects more efficiently.
Data visualization is another Planisware strongpoint. It's possible to make dynamic slide presentations of working projects.
Given the depth and breadth of Planisware modules and the software's overall capabilities, each corporate organization has to make a long-term commitment to adopting Planisware. Providing stakeholders the opportunity to gain needed proficiencies with Planisware is also essential for reaping the considerable benefits of using this fascinating enterprise solution.
I have experience with Asana. It's an easy-to-use and configure solution, especially for medium and non-complex plans.
The real question is: what type of Project/Portfolio Management system do I need?
The Trello, Asana, and Monday.com types of products tend to be a bit more lightweight. Sometimes, they lack the structure that a more robust system such as Project Online or Project for the Web can offer.
If the organization is small(er) and or only a few individuals will be utilizing the system, then the former may work well. If a large(r) organization and many PMs /Portfolio Managers, compliance issues, etc., a more mainstream Project? A Portfolio Management approach may be needed. Look into a bigger player in the market.
Take a look at the Gartner reviews for additional suggestions as to what level and type of system may be the right one for your organization.