r/Asana

I decided to cancel my account because I'm using less Asana and I really don't like paying for 2 seats as a solopreneur.

Upon cancelling, Asana offers you to pay for only 1 seat.

I really find such practice disappointing. They know that many users only use 1 seat out of their 2 plans but instead of offering convenience and transparency, they propose this under-the-table deal where you need to cancel to get this.

Instead of motivating me to stay it really deterred me for good.

When the project management setup looks like a digital junk drawer, a messy one and which needs nobody really wants to make an update, you might have probably over engineered your boards. We were facing a huge problem with the adoption of team because the managers created alot of custom rules and mandatory checks that even filling some basic tasks feels like doing taxes. We got our workspace architecture reviewed by cloudfresh and got our internal operations cleaned. That helped us in many things, simplifying our project templates, integrating our workload views so the managers have the visibility to see the capacity without micromanaging, and then automating cross-departmental handoffs. We saw the differences in team adoption, and it was quite a lot within just one week.

Sometimes an outsider perspective really helps you in a way where you cannot see how your systems can work against your own people.

need a reality check on this one. i've put real work into our Asana setup, clean projects, sensible custom fields, rules, templates. it's honestly kind of beautiful. and half my team still just doesn't use it. they DM me updates instead of moving the task, they say oh that's done in a meeting while it sits in progress for two weeks. i've basically become a full-time Asana janitor for everyone else's work.

and it spirals: nobody updates it → the board goes stale → that proves to the holdouts it's not worth using → they update it even less. meanwhile the real status lives in my head and scattered Slack threads, which is the exact thing the tool was supposed to fix.

so is this a me problem (setup too complex?), a tool problem or just the eternal truth that people avoid updating any system no matter how nice you make it?

What in the holy heck did Asana do to the ``` option?

This was a great way to highlight important text. Now as a numbered code block it completely makes that useless.

How does everyone else make something stand out or quote a previous piece of someone's comment? Bold and underline are sometimes just not enough.