Kanban Boards or Task Lists: Which is Better for Your Team?
Project management enables teams and companies to successfully bring an undertaking from point A to point B. Project management software is a tool that helps make this attempt done in a more organized and efficient manner. Projects are usually broken down to smaller, more manageable tasks. Tasks are then assigned to teams or individuals who will be responsible and accountable for completing them. Today’s PM tools offer several ways in presenting tasks. Among the most popular are the simple task lists and the modern Kanban boards.
Which is better?
Before we determine the best task management presentation, we have to answer a fundamental question: who is your team? Productivity methodology seems to be a very personal, or team-specific, thing. What works for one might not work for another. Another question to think about is what stage in the project lifecycle are you now?
Task Lists – One at a time
Pros: Task lists are great project planning tools. It is simple and easy to do, which is an important factor when […]
Asana Announces New Workload Feature in Latest Release
Asana is a project tracking and work management software for teams. It is a powerful business solution that helps users manage their projects, process, and people. With a mission to empower teams to do great things together, it has launched a series of new features to help each team member know what they should be doing and why. Features such as Timeline, Portfolios, Milestones, Forms, and others, are tools that aim to improve clarity, transparency and focus. The latest tool to join these features is Workload. For a powerful reporting and exporting tool for Asana, give our own tool Bridge24 for Asana a try.
Introducing Workload
Asana recognizes that what makes projects successful are people. People using the right tools and following the right processes are able to accomplish great things. No matter how powerful the tools, or how effective the process, it all grinds to a halt when no one is completing the task. Workload provides Asana Business and Enterprise users a central place where they can […]
Tips on How to Stay Focused at Work
Attention control is the capacity of a person to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore. When people spend a certain amount of concentrated time on a certain task without becoming distracted, that period is called the attention span. Experts say that the attention span of a gold fish is 9 seconds. In a study conducted by Microsoft, the results indicated that the attention span of people has gone down from 12 seconds, measured in the year 2000, to 8 seconds in 2015.
Researchers point to an increasingly digitalized lifestyle as the cause of the diminishing attention span. People who are accustomed to looking at multiple screens are more easily distracted. On the other hand, the same study showed that more people are now better at multitasking. So, even though our attention span is now less than that of a gold fish, we have become more proficient in doing more than one task or activity at the same time. In other words, we have become […]
Reports grouped by custom fields for Asana and Trello
For Asana and Trello we frequently get requests for using Custom field information within Bridge24 (filters, charts, reports, etc). We have begun a process that will take a few iterations before being able to use them throughout the application. The first step is being released today with the ability to Group by Custom field values from within Reports.
Selecting the Custom field to Group by
From the Report parameters, simply select the Custom field from the drop-down grouping field.
You have the option to Group by a secondary dimension as well, that can also be a Custom field.
Report presentation
In the resulting report, the total of tasks/cards that meet the Grouping value criteria is presented. The count of each group is provided and the list of associated tasks/cards is listed within each grouping category.
As with any report, you can now export it to Excel, for further editing, or to PDF directly.
Stay tuned for more improvements coming your way soon!
Basecamp Launches New Notification When Someone Adds a To-do
Basecamp is a web-based application for managing projects and keeping communications open. Users can keep all work and collaboration organized using one central application. With a collection of essential tools on one platform, they can keep track of to-dos, avoid long email threads, and cut down on meetings. A to-do list enables teams to create all the work they need to complete. They can assign these tasks to team mates, and set due dates. Notifications allow users to catch up on the latest, with several options. A new notification feature has recently become available. For a great reporting and exporting tool for Basecamp, we recommend you use our own tool Bridge24 for Basecamp.
Assign to who?
Basecamp 3 To-do Lists feature enables individual team members to know what is happening through its notifications. A user will receive a notification when someone assigns him or her a to-do. Consequently, the person who assigned also receives a notification when the to-do is completed. This is an efficient process when […]
Asana Latest Features in March and April 2019 Release
Asana project tracking and work management software helps teams around the world be more productive. The software continuously includes new features in its regular release. Whether it is a new language, a faster way to edit comments, or a better way to view projects, the results are positive. Teams are able to track work, manage projects, and coordinate efforts more effectively. The releases in the last two months include the availability of the software in Japanese language, new Portfolio features, an updated view in Timeline, and more. For a powerful reporting and exporting tool for Asana, give our own tool Bridge24 for Asana a try.
Asana Now in Japanese
When Asana launched in 2008, it was available only in English. In just the past two years, it became available also in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Now that the software is present in 195 countries, it has recently added Japanese in the languages it is available. However, it is only the start of its commitment to Japanese customers, […]
Basecamp 3 New Dedicated Menu: My Stuff
Basecamp project management and internal communication application is a simple and centralized system that helps people run their business smoothly. With a minimalist and contextually designed software, companies are able to assign, track, and chart their to-dos without the confusion and complication of using multiple products. And it makes it easy for all types of users with a clear and consistent menu, navigation, and Home screen. Recently, it introduced a new menu called My Stuff that makes working on a bunch of things more smoothly. For a great reporting and exporting tool for Basecamp, we recommend you use our own tool Bridge24 for Basecamp.
The Problem at Home
The Basecamp 3 Home screen brings together access to all of the person’s drafts, bookmarks, and assignments. Home is the go-to place to start the day, or to come back from a pause. When users load the Home screen, they get to see all their important links where they can get back quickly to their assignments, bookmarks, drafts, and […]
More Bridge24 Report Enhancements: Including Unlimited Fields!
Sometimes data can overwhelm you. Being able to easily structure your Asana, Basecamp, Trello, or AceProject data in to a presentable and flexible report would be great, wouldn’t it? Well, comments from users keep pouring in and report updates have followed. In the latest update a number of new features are available to add even more flexibility in report creation.
Unlimited fields in your report
No more limit of 4 additional fields. Add any field you want! You can reorder them as well to get that report just right.
Support for landscape and portrait orientation
Change the orientation of the paper to suit your needs! A few extra fields may fit better in your PDF if in landscape mode. If you want to fit even more information, you always have the option to export to Excel which respects the formatting. Using the print options form Excel you can fit width, or fit all, to get what you want on the page.
Interchange wide fields for columns […]
Announcing Asana Forms – Collect the Info Your Team Needs
Asana is an online productivity tool for teams. Today, business teams are not only more dispersed and distributed, they are also more diverse. The different perspectives, expertise, and skill sets in modern teams enable them to produce higher quality of work. However, due to the differences also, there is a tendency to get information or feedback from separate channels and from scattered places. As a result, crucial details can be left out, and work starts off poorly. Furthermore, the team gets confused and frustrated, and work misses its deadlines. The solution to this problem is Forms, a new feature that standardizes information collection. For a powerful reporting and exporting tool for Asana, give our own tool Bridge24 for Asana a try.
Asana Forms
Asana Forms is a new feature available to Business plan customers. With Forms, teams can create a simple way for people to request work. It establishes a standard way how people submit information to project teams. Forms ensure that teams can gather vital information up […]
Asana February 2019 Release Helps Marketing, Creative Teams Deliver
Asana collaborative project management software provides various teams an effective work management platform. Working with a single platform on a central location, users are able to spend more time working on projects and tasks important for their business. Work continues to evolve, and new tools come into the market. Sometimes though, these tools focus only on one process, like distribution in marketing. However, teams continue to spend more time on other processes, such as planning, creating, reviewing, and approving work. In February 2019, Asana announces several new features and integrations to help teams manage the entire marketing process. For a powerful reporting and exporting tool for Asana, give our own tool Bridge24 for Asana a try.
Milestones, Updated Portfolio Progress View
Asana recognizes that when teams plan a big project, they need a clear way to identify checkpoints and share them with others. The Milestones feature is a visual indicator that mark important points in the project. It is a new task type, and users can mark any […]