Asana News: Task Dependencies Feature Released
Asana project tracking and team productivity software recently released a feature that is essential in project management – task dependencies. Projects are usually made up of a sequence of tasks performed by a number of resources. Among these tasks, resources and due dates, logical relationships are created such that dependencies exist between activities. In a typical project, a task can be started usually after another task has been completed, where the successor task is said to be dependent on the predecessor task getting done first. Asana simplifies the implementation of task dependencies by allowing users to mark their task as waiting on another task or tasks. This new feature is only available to Teams and Organizations on Asana Premium (paid accounts).
Task Dependencies
Asana enables teams to collaborate on projects in an organized way by allowing each team member to start working on tasks assigned to them at the time they should, but not before they can. Clear understanding and visibility are provided among team members. The PM […]
Basecamp News: Master The Art Of Effective Delegation, Low Cost Way to Improve Your Business, and more
Basecamp Helps Master The Art Of Effective Delegation
Have the owner track the delegated task via Basecamp. Ensure you have a structure in place so communication is honest when a project/task needs to be rescheduled or deadline renegotiated. Most of my clients find dividing a complex project into a series of smaller projects increases visibility, and ensures that weekly deadlines keep momentum. Then, if a deadline needs to be moved the impact isn’t as severe, since the deliverable is much smaller. Set a standard for renegotiation when a deadline will be missed. Most of my clients have a 48-72 hour advance notice when it appears a deadline is in peril.
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Basecamp as a Low Cost Way to Improve Your Business
Startups are usually strapped for cash. But that shouldn’t stop you from building your dream as effectively as possible. So […]
Asana News: Battle the Summer Sales Drop, Automate Freelance Client Management and more
Asana to Help you Battle the Summer Sales Drop
Asana is dedicated to help your team track their work, and stay on top of things. This task-management tool will dissolve the major worry of “staying on top of things” for your employees, and overall improve their workflow management. Asana is not an end-to-end workplace management software, and it lacks offline capabilities, but overall it’s one of the best team productivity apps out there. It’s free version, by the way, supports up to 15 team members.
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Asana to Help Automate Freelance Client Management
Reduce time spent sending emails about what’s been done and what hasn’t by using project management software. Something like Asana lets you update the client by simply checking off a task.
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Trello News: How to Make The Perfect To-do List, Tools Every Business Needs, and A Board to Get Kids Excited
Trello is a leading visual collaboration and workflow application that is helping users all over the world improve their productivity. It is very flexible and is being used in a variety of situations, such as in making the perfect to-do list. After learning the strategies for writing a perfect list of to-dos, we give the readers an article about the 5 free tools every business needs. Rounding up our news list, a software engineer and father shared how he discovered a Trello board to get kids excited, and how he is equally excited from his son’s response.
The Perfect To-do List – And How to Make One with Trello
In today’s multi-tasking environment, where everything seems to compete for people’s number one attention, having a to-do list helps make it more manageable. Turbine, an online application that enables users to make simple purchase orders, shared an article that provides a strategy for creating the all-powerful and perfect to-do list. The 7-point strategy enumerates the characteristics of this […]
Asana News: Ways to Automate the Sales Process, 10 Free Business Apps, and Technology to Get Organized
Asana is an online tool used for organization, project management and tracking by different companies and their different departments, including sales and marketing. First in our news collection is an article that gives readers 4 ways to automate the sales process and increase the number of opportunities to find clients. Indeed, there are a multitude of tools available for different purposes, so next, we found a list of the top 10 free business apps you’ve never heard about, or maybe you have but did not know they are free. Finally, a great tip on how to use technology to get organized, with specific tips and tools such as Asana to help today’s worker, whether at the office or working remotely, get organized, meet deadlines and be in control of timelines.
4 Ways To Automate the Sales Process (Besides Your CRM)
In this Huffington Post article, sales and marketing expert Holly Berrigan, together with Elevate, a global professional women’s network, discussed how salespeople are normally spending the hours […]
Trello News: Trello For Freelancers, Integrating The App With TalkSpirit And A Comparison Between LiquidPlanner And Trello
Trusted by millions of individuals all across the globe, Trello is a free, flexible, easy and visual way to organize anything including managing your projects. This news article shares three great uses of the app that make it more versatile. Christy, an expert freelance writer, lists 6 apps that she cannot live without, and one of them is Trello. The second post is on integrating Trello with talkSpirit, which helps you to receive your desired notifications without any technical knowledge. The last article in this news series is a comparison between Trello and another exciting project management tool, LiquidPlanner.
How Trello Can Be Effectively Used By Freelancers
Christy O’Shoney is an established freelance writer who was criticized by many people in the earlier days of her career corroborating that it was not at all possible to make money online. However, she gave such things a deaf ear and with enough help from her friends and mentors, she took a conscious decision to stop listening to her critics. As a result, […]
Trello Introduces App for Slack
When two of your favourite collaboration tools come together, the outcome is a powerhouse of productivity. This has happened now, as Trello and Slack join forces to bring collaboration and task management in one place. Beginning immediately, you can now check up on any of your projects in Trello while still inside Slack communicating with your colleagues. Not just this, but you can also convert conversations in Slack into task items in Trello. It’s safe to say, the users are in for a treat. Looking for a brilliant extension to Trello, we suggest trying out our own tool Bridge24 for Trello.
The Trello Bot
Simply inviting @trello to your Slack channels will add the Trello bot, which saves a lot of time and unnecessary keystrokes. Just merely adding the Trello bot to your Slack channel brings you the details about your board and tasks, adding perspective and knowledge to the conversation, while maintaining the conversational flow. The best part is that the @trello bot saves a huge chunk of time spent […]
Asana News: How to Organize Clients and Manage Projects
As a free online project management tool, Asana is a popular application especially with freelancers, small teams and startup companies of up to 15 people or less. In our first article on the list, a freelance designer and coach shares her experience in using the tool with a guide on how to really use Asana to organize your clients and projects. It is followed by a step-by-step guide article written by a marketing director who has given up on email and instead learned and shares how to manage projects with this project management tool. Last in the list, an entrepreneur shares a complete guide on how to use it for project management, whether for team projects or for personal organization.
How to Really Use Asana to Organize Your Clients and Projects
The site ByRegina hosted an article written by Nesha Woolery, a freelance designer and coach, about how she is successfully organizing her clients and projects with the help of Asana. She shared the challenges and difficulties […]
Asana News: Team Management for Organization Admins
Asana project management and collaboration tool continuously updates its features to provide users the tools to not only manage their projects and tasks, but also their organizations and teams. Usually, Asana accounts are tied to individuals. However, Asana can create an organization based on a company’s shared email domain. Organization membership is based on the domain associated with a member’s email address. Therefore, people who sign up with an email address with the same email domain are automatically created as members of the organization. Organization administrators play an important role in creating and managing teams within the organization as well as protecting data and monitoring people’s access to it.
New Feature – Team Management
Asana has two versions, the free version and the premium version. Organization administrators of the premium version have more tools and capabilities in managing their company’s Asana organization. An organization connects all employees, but users within that organization can further be grouped into teams. As teams, users can then collaborate on projects and tasks. To […]
Asana News: The Perfect To-Do List, Conversion Rate Optimization Tools, and Android Productivity Apps
Asana is a web-based productivity tool that helps users track their work. It is a versatile application that can be used in a variety of professional and personal work settings, including creating the perfect to-do list. It can be used alone for organization and efficiency, or together with other applications from among 36 conversion rate optimization tools that help keep websites in business. Rounding up our news list, Asana makes it in the best 10 awesome productivity apps for Android, helping even users on the go move their work forward.
The Perfect To-Do List – And How to Make One
In this recent Turbine blog, an attempt was made to describe what the perfect to-do list would look like. Turbine is an application that allows simple online purchase orders. About 7 characteristics and features were listed, first of which is that the list should prompt the owner to action. It should be concise, containing not more than 3 tasks, and clearly worded as specific accomplishments, not as […]