We performed a comparison between Asana and RationalPlan 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 initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution scales well."
"My task box displays all of our tasks, organized by day, helping us to focus on what needs to be done each day."
"It’s a great way to communicate plans and progress across the business and is flexible about how much detail I include and how I present it."
"Asana has a wonderful user experience that is very easy to interact with and has tons of integrations with other products and tools."
"I love the way it monitors all of the current and past projects, and it sends notifications to keep everything on the track."
"The ability to share projects and tasks among team members appears to be the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It was just a few clicks to get started and to integrate Asana into our existing business system. It took 15 days to fully implement our projects using Asana."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
"The mobile application of Asana has to be improved a lot because no one wants to do a complete project management task on mobile."
"There just needs to be a bit more direction on how to use it at the outset."
"The inbox feature can be a little overwhelming if you are working with Asana just from its project boards and only checking it periodically."
"We'd like the capability to be able to set up weekly reminders."
"Auto-shift is an essential feature for planning, but it's currently not there. It should have this feature so that when you move a task that depends on another task, the dates should be auto-shifted. For example, you have two tasks dependent on each other. When the parent task is moved or delayed, the child task should also be delayed, and the date should be shifted. When we have a very long timeline, it's very complex to go task by task and shift the dates on the task. Auto-shift is a fantastic and basic feature of project management, and having such a feature in Asana would make our lives much easier. If Asana added this feature, it would complete the suit and close the project management cycle because currently, there is a gap."
"Some customizations and functions are still not available, however, so far, they haven't been a deal killer."
"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."
"A user should be able to identify an assignee for specific tasks or task types while applying the template, or at a minimum, allow for a default assignee. As it is, the template gets created with the just task dates driven by the project start and end dates inputted by the user. In my current situation, I'm assigning myself to many tasks, so I have to do that manually every time. Even if I eventually start adding other people to assign tasks, there won't be more than a handful to do. However, those few people will have multiple tasks. It would be nice to be able to select those individuals during the setup rather than having to do so manually once the project has been created."
"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while RationalPlan is ranked 20th in Project Management Software with 1 review. Asana is rated 8.4, while RationalPlan is rated 10.0. 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 RationalPlan writes "Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira, whereas RationalPlan is most compared with .
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