How to use Asana for project management ?

Asana is a web and mobile application designed to improve the way teams communicate and collaborate. It was developed by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook, among other roles.

Asana claims to be used by tens of thousands of teams, including those at companies like Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Disqus, Airbnb, Rdio, AdParlor, Flapps and Entelo.

By centering the team around tasks you get better organized, create accountability, and stay in sync.

So, How to use Asana for project management?

Project Management is easy with Asana. Here are a few strategies and tips based on the internal usage of Asana teams that you show also in the video above:

•          Start planning with a high level roadmap. Think about the major goals, milestones and releases for the next year or two.
•          Then move to medium level planning. At Asana, we think about what work needs to be done for the current release and how to split it into 2 week segments, called sprints.
•          Then get into the detailed project planning. Have each team turn their list of features & requirements into a complete set of detailed tasks. Then estimate how long each task will take. Try to split the work into tasks that take no more than half a day and can be done by a single person.
•          Organize the tasks into one Asana project per team, so each person can work out of a single project and not be distracted by irrelevant tasks. Have each team member follow their project so they’ll get notified when tasks are added.
•          Use Priority Headings to break the work up into sprints, upcoming milestones and backlog. You can create a heading by ending the task name with a colon. You can drag & drop to move tasks into a milestone. If there are important dependencies, you can link to the task by copying its URL and pasting it in the comments.
•          Add new tasks to the top of the project above the first heading to indicate that they haven’t been prioritized yet. Give one person on the team the role of project owner. The project owner prioritizes the new tasks each day.
•          Link to mockups and spreadsheets so that you can always find the current version. If you need subtasks you can put them in the notes.

If you want more details about the Asana using, you can browse in the official guide that contains tutorials with videos and texts.