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 solution appears to be quite stable."
"Asana has significantly reduced the number of emails we exchange because we can access the project directly. It organizes all the tasks related to each project, assigns them to staff with due dates, and tracks progress."
"I really enjoy the portfolios in Asana. One of the ways Asana stands out to me is with portfolios. You can have all your different projects, and you can have those assigned to different teams. If you want to customize a grouping of projects, you can use portfolios. For instance, one of the things that we do is we can assign a portfolio to a specific strategic objective we have, and we can put all those projects that are related to that strategic objective in that portfolio. We then know exactly what people are working on to help us achieve our goals. So, I really like portfolios."
"The solution scales well."
"It has helped our departments maintain visibility."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its project management tracking systems."
"It is stable and easy to set up."
"It is pretty comprehensive when it comes to the different views that it gives you. It gives you a Gantt chart view, calendar view, board view, and list view. It is kind of helpful to have different types of views and see how it views your different tasks. I appreciate being able to do that. The biggest thing is that it is extremely user friendly. Asana is pretty intuitive. Someone who is not tech-savvy can kind of catch on quickly. It is better than other tools like Smartsheet. Some of the other tools like Microsoft Project and Excel are great tools, but you have to invest a lot of time to learn them, which is not the case with Asana."
"The build and release management features are valuable."
"I found the Kanban board to be the most useful for my needs."
"Everything that's related to the pipeline has been very good."
"It's a great product for the CI/CD process."
"Overall, so far we have no major issues to report."
"The features that have a significant impact on us include CI/CD, where we have full integration with the source code repository and Azure Pipelines."
"The creation of test plans is valuable and I like the reporting features."
"It has a good GUI, and it's very user-friendly."
"For large teams, scalability should be improved."
"Some customizations and functions are still not available, however, so far, they haven't been a deal killer."
"The stability of Asana is good. However, there are some issues with maintenance, when the solution is down. For example, there might be maintained for a few hours where we cannot use the solution."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"There could be some improvements in terms of how projects or day-to-day work is organized. One of the challenges when it comes to rolling out to an enterprise is the way the projects are organized. It has a kind of setup where you have different projects and tasks, but it is not as organized as Smartsheet when it comes to organizing projects or different teams. It can get really cluttered really fast. JIRA has another suite to submit the support tickets. It would be good if Asana could branch out to incorporate some kind of workflow. It is great for collaboration and recording work, but there isn't any workflow. It would be useful if they can map out a workflow of who approves what. This is kind of a big ask, and it is not geared towards that."
"Having a quick way to do video inside the platform or video communication could be very handy."
"The solution can be difficult for new users to use because of the interface."
"We have not used Asana on our private server. We have been using the cloud solution. We need an on premise solution for government agencies."
"I think that they have some menus there that are not very well placed."
"The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers."
"Proper Gantt charting should be a feature that is included because as it is now, we have to create it ourselves."
"We did have some brief performance issues, however, that was due to putting everything on one epic instead of breaking a project up."
"Testing is very important. Microsoft Azure DevOps tests very well. However, DevOps teams need to be aware of what they are impacting when someone updates anything on the system."
"Reporting across multiple projects could be improved."
"The optimization feature in Microsoft Azure DevOps needs improvement. Control over multiple projects could also be improved."
"There could more integration with other platforms."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 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 "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". 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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