Projects are the backbone of your team's work in Asana. Use them to organize related tasks and build workflows to help your team accomplish almost anything. Let's look at some examples. Kat, a product manager, uses the timeline view to map out an upcoming product launch.
She can make launch responsibilities, dependencies, and deadlines clear. She can easily make adjustments and share them with the team in real-time if something comes up. Daniela, who manages the design team, creates a design request project in Board view to track new work for the launch. Anyone can submit a form for each new request so Daniela can prioritize and assign the new requests with all the information the designer needs to get started.
Finally, Ray, on the content team, schedules a blog post to announce the launch and adds it to the team's content calendar. He multi-homes the task into Kat's launch plan so they can both track progress and see when it's going live. These are just a few examples. Check out the template gallery for more inspiration.
As you start building projects in Asana, consider these best practices: Group related tasks with sections. You might create sections for time frames, task types, or progress stages. Add context with custom fields. Choose a dropdown, text, or number field, then use fields, like spreadsheet columns, to filter and sort the tasks in your project.
Start tasks with a clear, actionable verb and decide who should own each one. Give and get updates with comments. @mention teammates on a task to loop them in. They'll get a notification in their Asana inbox and can respond from there.
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