It’s been a while since you first started using Trello boards for managing multiple tasks and keeping your projects in order. Or, maybe its rival, Asana was your first encounter?
No matter what your current choice is, we think there are ways to make your project management skills stronger (and the results more effective) by leveraging the benefits both project management tools have to offer.
Curious how to do that?
See if the app you are using today fully matches your needs.
✅ Trello vs Asana: A Brief Overview
What is Trello
Same as any progress board, Trello makes project management visual through the use of task cards being moved from To-Do list to In Progress and ultimately to Done. Originally created by Fog Creek Software, a web-based project management app Trello formed the basis of a separate company in 2014 and eventually was sold to Atlassian in January 2017. The same-project tasks are generally kept on the same digital boards – known as Kanban boards – which are used to visualize work and optimize the flow of the work among the team.
What Trello is Mostly Used For?
Trello’s primary mission is to organize the tasks in a way that lets you see where in the process the task is. Boards are made up of lists (mimicking the stages of the execution process) and cards. It, however, becomes more difficult to quickly get to the exact card once the company grows and more members are added to the board. In simple terms, tracking the task through the basic stages of the process (To Do, In Progress (sometimes called Doing), Done) is pretty much what Trello is used for within smaller organizations.
What is Asana
Very much similar to its biggest rival – Trello, Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work from tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards. There are also Kanban-style boards and task cards aimed to help users visualize project management, and yet unlike Trello, Asana has a decent task dependency management system. That allows marking your task as waiting for another task, once which is done the notification comes to you to urge you to come into play, so to speak.
What Asana is Mostly Used For?
As for Asana’s description for its own service “If you have a growing team, chances are you’ll quickly outgrow Trello. Asana grows with your needs, providing a living system where everyone can see, discuss, and manage team priorities”. As such, Asana’s primary goal is to make the project management workflow as seamless as possible even with bigger teams and larger projects. In that way, it makes sense to use Asana to easily manage multiple projects with a great number of members involved.
Trello Pros and Cons
Pros
Unlimited number of team members (even on the free plan)
Visual and interactive Kanban-style boards
Specific features like multiple assignees, attachments, cards color coding, drag-n-drop, etc.
Nearly 150 integrations with Dropbox, Google Drive, Slack, etc
Easy and Intuitive interface (no training needed for a non-technical person)
Cons
Data export only available with a Premium upgrade
Difficulties in tracking multiple tasks among hundreds of others
Just 1 power-up for a single board on a free plan
Asana Pros and Cons
Pros
Free usage for teams up to 15 people
Easily identifiable task priority and dependency
Multiple project involvement for a single task
125+ integrations are available with Gmail, Zendesk, Shopify, etc.
List/Calendar/Board view on a free plan
Cons
A single assignee for the task
More difficult to understand the interface
A limited number of team members on a free plan
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