We performed a comparison between Asana and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."The most valuable feature of Asana is the tracking of comments and documents in one place."
"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."
"It’s a great way to communicate plans and progress across the business and is flexible about how much detail I include and how I present it."
"Asana is a very simple interface for project managers to figure out, providing all the functions they need."
"It has helped our departments maintain visibility."
"The only thing I love about the product is that it is beautiful."
"It's an easy way to communicate."
"Asana's most valuable aspect is its ability to consolidate all tasks and projects onto a single board, allowing for seamless navigation through timelines from start to finish. Additionally, it enables the inclusion of key stakeholders and provides a private communication channel for discreet discussions. The organizational component of Asana is particularly beneficial, including its coding features."
"Provides agile management of projects."
"There are a lot of helpful features available for tracking dependencies."
"I like the tracking and that we can monitor our velocity."
"Some of the valuable features are the interface and the workflows are easy to learn and to manage."
"The reports have been most valuable. We have created some dashboards allowing us to be able to check our teams, their progress, and mission plans."
"The initial setup is quick and easy."
"Azure DevOps is complete and meets all of your expectations. You can develop your own plugins to customize it however you want, so it's highly flexible. We develop personalized plugins or use ones that other programmers create for the Azure Marketplace."
"It's graphical representation and tools are easy to use."
"For large teams, scalability should be improved."
"It would be great if Asana could create a library for each project within the interface."
"It's hard to integrate Asana into other parts of the company workflow, so integration is an area for improvement."
"It's difficult to have short-term collaborations with external users because the operations team owns the final licenses, and I work for marketing."
"The documentation could be enhanced by incorporating more visually informative videos that demonstrate how to accomplish specific tasks. While Asana's community support is valuable for answering questions, finding precise answers often requires sifting through multiple posts. Having concise and explanatory videos would greatly improve the user experience. When searching on platforms like Google, there are many individuals sharing their approaches to using Asana. However, the information provided is often not directly applicable to one's specific needs. Therefore, it would be advantageous to have comprehensive video tutorials that address common user queries. This would provide a more efficient and intuitive way of accessing information, especially when it comes to learning how to navigate and utilize Asana's features effectively."
"The solution can be difficult for new users to use because of the interface."
"A user should be able to identify an assignee for specific tasks or task types while applying the template, or at a minimum, allow for a default assignee. As it is, the template gets created with the just task dates driven by the project start and end dates inputted by the user. In my current situation, I'm assigning myself to many tasks, so I have to do that manually every time. Even if I eventually start adding other people to assign tasks, there won't be more than a handful to do. However, those few people will have multiple tasks. It would be nice to be able to select those individuals during the setup rather than having to do so manually once the project has been created."
"More features can be added."
"As for improvement, the first one is pricing. For us, luckily because we are partners, it's free. Microsoft gold partners do not have to pay, but if you're not a partner, the product is very expensive."
"The functions have too much dependency right now, so it makes it really, really hard to upgrade and make a change in the code."
"Something that could be improved is the initial setup with the integration of ReadyAPI."
"We would like some bidirectional synchronization. It's the requirement if you want to analyze it to software requirements, et cetera. That's something that most of the tools aren't that good at."
"All of the tests of the applications are done on the mobile or web interface and it could be improved."
"It is not that intuitive. Sometimes, it is hard to find some of the functions. I would like to have an old-fashioned menu structure to be able to easily find things. Its environment setup is not very good. They should improve the way it is set up for different screens and make it easier to find functionalities and maintain team members."
"Reporting across multiple projects could be improved."
"They could provide clearer guidance on deployment practices for the product."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 124 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good support, helpful management capabilities, and great Kanban boards". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com, Jira and Trello, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and Polarion ALM.
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