Wow! I can say that you're the best among the rest! As a freelancer, I've been getting so much value from your contents. your videos are truly amazing and I hope you will continue to keep up the good work!
You’re helping me nail an upcoming interview I have. I’ve never used asana but they want someone with experience. I can now say that I have a basic understanding of its purpose, how to navigate it, etc. thanks so much for this video 💜
This is one of those videos where the creator cares enough about his audience to make the video in a manner that its a breeze to understand the concept. IMO not every content creator does that. So, many thanks for putting in a great effort and for making it a very worthwhile investment of my time. God bless.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and for your thoughtful feedback. Your support means a lot and motivates me to keep creating. 🌟
Thanks for the super helpful video, Marquis! My one suggestion for future videos would be, if possible, to make your tiny window of yourself a little bit bigger so that we can see you better. I like looking at the person speaking from time to time when watching these kinds of tutorials, and I can barely see you. Be blessed!
Hey Angie, thanks for the feedback. I was actually considering removing my face from the screen all together so that people aren’t distracted by my face. Seems I should reconsider.
@@MarquisMurray That just shows you're naturally humble and self-effacing and aren't trying to put your face on Front Street. But I personally like being able to see people when they're speaking to me, even on UA-cam. :)
You explained it thoroughly Marquis. I’ve been looking for information on this topic, and this video was exactly what I needed. You're amazing and thank you so much!
Hey, thanks for watching! As of now, you can only: *- Star Projects, portfolios and forms* to add them to the Starred section for easy access. *- Reorder Starred Items:* Drag and drop to rearrange starred projects as desired. *- Manage Team Projects:* Click on a team name to access its overview and reorder projects there; this affects all team members. *- Collapse Sections* to reduce clutter in the sidebar. *- Resize Sidebar:* Adjust the sidebar width by dragging its edge for better visibility. What would you like to organize there?
I tried introducing this process to our creative team (comprised of copywriter, photographer, graphic designer, sales, and marketing director) they looked at me like I had 10 heads and they felt really overwhelmed and they couldn't figure out how we could apply this process to our current workflow. I'm confident it can work but I need help explaining it better to them so it doesn't feel overwhelming. Also the traditional terminology like "stories", story points, etc and doesn't translate well to the creative production world so I wanted to know if you've helped other creative teams help roll this out to their teams
You're talking about incorporating SCRUM within your team? Or was it the concept of sprints? Unless you already have a culture that accepts agile as a way of working, this would be a heavy lift. Have you tried setting up a test team and or project to show them what it could look like and the efficiency it provides?
Perfect blend of top down theory and illustrative nitty gritty details! Thank you!! I wish we had Marquis Murray video for every piece of software out there
Thank you. I'm gathering all the info I need to kickstart my virtual solutions business. After a year and a half of working for FREE - it's time to get serious lol. Great video.
Really nice to listen to the way to present asana. I will be watching all your asana videos to make sure I can set up asana for my new college I hired to start working together well as soon as he starts.
This is great - thank you! One question...how do I get the dragon? I don't have it on my account and I've searched all my settings and cannot seem to find it 😭
Ahh, great question! In your settings go to “Hacks” and make sure “Extra Delight” is turned on. Actually, as I’m writing this, I remembered what it was. That dragon is unique to the Asana Demo space that I use sometimes. Asana Inc. would have hacked their Asana to have the dragon show up. I can’t even get it in my instance. That would be a nice addition.
Thanks for such a useful video! One question about Multi-Homing- Once a specific task is assigned in different spaces/departments/projects, and with different levels of progress (New, In Progress, Blocked, etc.), what should happen after one department completes the task? I made a test of this, and once someone in one department completes the specific task, it's marked as "Complete" everywhere else, i.e., other departments/projects. Is this right? I was hoping multi-homing tasks would be the answer I was looking for, so that I could tie in all my departments and make things less redundant, and more streamlined. Thanks for your help and input!
Hey there! That's exactly how multihoming works, yes. Is that what you were hoping it would do, or where you thinking that task completion status would be different in each project that it is homed to? The goal of multihoming is to have a unified view of the same task across multiple projects, sections, and teams. One workaround if you needed independent statues would be to utilize subtasks within each of those multi-homed tasks so that you have another layer of completion. Not sure if that would work or not for your use case. Thanks for the comment!
Great tutorial Marquis - I do have an issue with how Asana is structured - in all projects it is driven first by the business objective to be competitive, and therefore projects are driven by function and not people; one focuses on deliverables that are caused by tasks and sub-tasks and FINALLY theses tasks are driven by people/team members - so how is it Asana placed the team first? don't they know that people can change during a project or were they only focused on small projects (1-3 weeks)... Please advise, Thanks!
This is a really great point. There seem to be many key features missing if our goal is to build projects around people. From what I know about Asana, they have always been too down. It’s based on their pyramid of clarity and starts with the mission of the company, then the goals, projects, and people that drive those projects. That said, I think they have made huge strides to focus more of the people by adding new features. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Hi Marquis! First of all, thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot to structure my Asana knowledge, which I gained very intuitively. One thing which I've been looking for and yet haven't found in Asana is possibility of making the fields in the Task mandatory - is there any possibility of doing that? I'm used to creating tasks with mandatory fields as I did it in Azure Devops, but I'm afraid Asana does not have this feature. Or maybe it does? Please let me know, if possible.
Hey, great question! Mandatory tasks are only possible if you’re using a form to collect the required information. You’d need to us a form with questions that when populated, fill the field of your choosing. No other way around that for the time being.
I want to schedule the shifts of the operating room personnel by applying restrictions with the software automatically? What software do you recommend? Can Asana create this feature?
Hi, thanks for watching! While we haven’t used any specialized software for a case like this before, I found some options that could be useful, including MDsyncNET, Rotageek, and QGenda. About Asana, it will depend on the complexity of what you want to build. As you might know, this is a project management tool, so I don’t know if it is the best option. However, if you want to build a lite version of what you are looking for, I am sure you can find some workarounds.
Hey, thanks for asking! I'm a big fan of HubSpot as a CRM that works great with Asana. It's a smooth integration that can boost your team's efficiency.
Q2 - Is Asana designed for department heads? because the more I learn about it the more I noticed it is focused on individuals and their tasks where a manager can assign and then monitor progress, but it is in no way a Project Management tool - Am I correct or does it have a PM module that is missing here? Example: Does Asana can set and reset a Baseline for a project? Can you find a critical path for the project? Can it have joined sub-projects? can it incorporate individual calendars and calculate resource availability? can it incorporate Lead-Time or Gaps? can A project incorporate multiple Milestones? And last but not least - Can Asana have all the above in a single project? If not, then WHY is Asana selling the idea of Asana as a Project management tool?
I get what you mean, Abe. Asana is primarily a team collaboration tool that helps managers and even department heads to manage their teams' tasks and monitor their project's progress. There are Asana templates that can help you identify critical paths and free floats, and you can incorporate multiple milestones and set project baselines within Asana. The tool is not as entirely dedicated to project management as MS Projects, but it's still a great tool for PMs to manage projects. Hope this helps!
If you try to use this product you will find that it's extremely expensive to get it to do what you expect. Free, cheap, and pretty expensive versions do almost nothing at all. Prices are misleading, they are for each person who accesses the product. So real costs, even in a small company, are 10 or 20 times quoted.
@@MarquisMurray thanks but no, they can't and they won't. For example when I showed them that the function I want (EXTREMELY BASIC) is explicitly listed as included with the version I pay for, they just said that doesn't mean what it says you don't get that with your level of service.
using asana for business requires more business related examples. I can't seem to transition between your non-business examples to production environment. this training was useless.
Asana sucks as no single seat plan an you have not warned people for that before having them waste time on this crap. why to spent 60$ for an app per month for 2 seat min
This video was created to educate people who are curious on how to use Asana. I can’t cover everything in the videos. This is good feedback for future videos though. Thanks.
Thanks for letting me know. Since this video, I have recognized the same thing and have significantly reduced the intro of new videos. Thanks for your comment.
Marquis, in my mind, you’re the GOAT of Asana tutorials and training. Thank you for these videos.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that!
Wow! I can say that you're the best among the rest! As a freelancer, I've been getting so much value from your contents. your videos are truly amazing and I hope you will continue to keep up the good work!
Thank you so much, Danica! Really appreciate you saying that! Glad the content is helping you in your work.
You’re helping me nail an upcoming interview I have. I’ve never used asana but they want someone with experience. I can now say that I have a basic understanding of its purpose, how to navigate it, etc. thanks so much for this video 💜
I love reading comments like these! Good luck with the interview! Come back here and let me know how it goes.
I'm only half way through and I already love this video!
Thanks so much!!
Geezzz, this is so lit! I'm a prospective VA and currently learning tools being used in the industry. Thank you so much!
Thanks for watching and I'm glad you liked the it! You can go to my channel for more Asana videos.
Very Thorough explanation of Asana...thank you for this content!
You’re very welcome!
This is one of those videos where the creator cares enough about his audience to make the video in a manner that its a breeze to understand the concept. IMO not every content creator does that. So, many thanks for putting in a great effort and for making it a very worthwhile investment of my time. God bless.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and for your thoughtful feedback. Your support means a lot and motivates me to keep creating. 🌟
Thanks for the super helpful video, Marquis! My one suggestion for future videos would be, if possible, to make your tiny window of yourself a little bit bigger so that we can see you better. I like looking at the person speaking from time to time when watching these kinds of tutorials, and I can barely see you. Be blessed!
Hey Angie, thanks for the feedback. I was actually considering removing my face from the screen all together so that people aren’t distracted by my face. Seems I should reconsider.
@@MarquisMurray That just shows you're naturally humble and self-effacing and aren't trying to put your face on Front Street. But I personally like being able to see people when they're speaking to me, even on UA-cam. :)
@@AngieThornton perfect. Good to know!
You explained it thoroughly Marquis. I’ve been looking for information on this topic, and this video was exactly what I needed. You're amazing and thank you so much!
I’m so glad! Thanks for letting me know!
very informative video..👍👍
Thank you!
Thanks Marquis, very detailed and thorough video on how to use Asana. Appreciate the effort.
Glad you liked it. Thanks so much!
Very informative and helpful video Marquis. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I really like the way You presented this information, Thank You Marquis.
Glad it was helpful!
Marquis, this was an excellent intro to Asana basics! I'm wondering if you have a video on specifically organizing the left sidebar?
Hey, thanks for watching!
As of now, you can only:
*- Star Projects, portfolios and forms* to add them to the Starred section for easy access.
*- Reorder Starred Items:* Drag and drop to rearrange starred projects as desired.
*- Manage Team Projects:* Click on a team name to access its overview and reorder projects there; this affects all team members.
*- Collapse Sections* to reduce clutter in the sidebar.
*- Resize Sidebar:* Adjust the sidebar width by dragging its edge for better visibility.
What would you like to organize there?
Thank you! Excellent Demo Marquis!
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it!
This was an amazing instructional video. So detailed, thoughtful, well paced, great graphics. Great instructor. Just subscribed. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words😊 welcome aboard!
I tried introducing this process to our creative team (comprised of copywriter, photographer, graphic designer, sales, and marketing director) they looked at me like I had 10 heads and they felt really overwhelmed and they couldn't figure out how we could apply this process to our current workflow. I'm confident it can work but I need help explaining it better to them so it doesn't feel overwhelming. Also the traditional terminology like "stories", story points, etc and doesn't translate well to the creative production world so I wanted to know if you've helped other creative teams help roll this out to their teams
You're talking about incorporating SCRUM within your team? Or was it the concept of sprints? Unless you already have a culture that accepts agile as a way of working, this would be a heavy lift. Have you tried setting up a test team and or project to show them what it could look like and the efficiency it provides?
Perfect blend of top down theory and illustrative nitty gritty details! Thank you!! I wish we had Marquis Murray video for every piece of software out there
Kelly, that's probably the nicest comment I've ever received. What other software do you use that you'd want to learn about?
Very good video Marquis!
Thank you very much!
this was an incredible intro tutorial, and helped ground me immediately, thank you for your explanation and hard work editing!
You're absolutely welcome! Great to hear that the video helped you. If you have questions, let me know!
Your teaching is top notch!
Wow. Thank you!
Very well and clearly explained. Thank you!
Thank you for the kind words! You're very welcome!
Thank you. I'm gathering all the info I need to kickstart my virtual solutions business. After a year and a half of working for FREE - it's time to get serious lol. Great video.
Good for you! That’s great news. Good luck to you.
So easy to follow, thank you!
You’re very welcome! Glad you found it helpful.
Love this video
Thank you! I’m so glad!
This was phenomenal! Thank you! Just getting started with Asana
You're so welcome!
Really nice to listen to the way to present asana. I will be watching all your asana videos to make sure I can set up asana for my new college I hired to start working together well as soon as he starts.
Please do! That's so nice of you.
How do portfolios fit in to the hierarchy? One above projects? Or on the same level as teams?
Great question. I’d say on the same level as teams. Just a different way to organize and visualize your projects.
Great intro❤
Thank you!
This is great - thank you! One question...how do I get the dragon? I don't have it on my account and I've searched all my settings and cannot seem to find it 😭
Ahh, great question! In your settings go to “Hacks” and make sure “Extra Delight” is turned on.
Actually, as I’m writing this, I remembered what it was. That dragon is unique to the Asana Demo space that I use sometimes. Asana Inc. would have hacked their Asana to have the dragon show up. I can’t even get it in my instance. That would be a nice addition.
This is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thank you!🙏
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it!
super useful video even as an intermediate user now
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video very helpful. Definitely very informative overview of the software.
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful.
Is there an undo button? if not then this is a big deal for my company. We are testing this tool currently.
You can usually go back one step by using the standard undo, but no, the product doesn’t come with one of those currently.
Thanks for such a useful video! One question about Multi-Homing- Once a specific task is assigned in different spaces/departments/projects, and with different levels of progress (New, In Progress, Blocked, etc.), what should happen after one department completes the task? I made a test of this, and once someone in one department completes the specific task, it's marked as "Complete" everywhere else, i.e., other departments/projects. Is this right?
I was hoping multi-homing tasks would be the answer I was looking for, so that I could tie in all my departments and make things less redundant, and more streamlined. Thanks for your help and input!
Hey there! That's exactly how multihoming works, yes. Is that what you were hoping it would do, or where you thinking that task completion status would be different in each project that it is homed to? The goal of multihoming is to have a unified view of the same task across multiple projects, sections, and teams.
One workaround if you needed independent statues would be to utilize subtasks within each of those multi-homed tasks so that you have another layer of completion. Not sure if that would work or not for your use case.
Thanks for the comment!
Great tutorial Marquis - I do have an issue with how Asana is structured - in all projects it is driven first by the business objective to be competitive, and therefore projects are driven by function and not people; one focuses on deliverables that are caused by tasks and sub-tasks and FINALLY theses tasks are driven by people/team members - so how is it Asana placed the team first? don't they know that people can change during a project or were they only focused on small projects (1-3 weeks)... Please advise, Thanks!
This is a really great point. There seem to be many key features missing if our goal is to build projects around people. From what I know about Asana, they have always been too down. It’s based on their pyramid of clarity and starts with the mission of the company, then the goals, projects, and people that drive those projects. That said, I think they have made huge strides to focus more of the people by adding new features. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Hi Marquis! First of all, thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot to structure my Asana knowledge, which I gained very intuitively. One thing which I've been looking for and yet haven't found in Asana is possibility of making the fields in the Task mandatory - is there any possibility of doing that? I'm used to creating tasks with mandatory fields as I did it in Azure Devops, but I'm afraid Asana does not have this feature. Or maybe it does? Please let me know, if possible.
Hey, great question! Mandatory tasks are only possible if you’re using a form to collect the required information. You’d need to us a form with questions that when populated, fill the field of your choosing. No other way around that for the time being.
Super helpful!
Glad you think so!
I want to schedule the shifts of the operating room personnel by applying restrictions with the software automatically?
What software do you recommend? Can Asana create this feature?
Hi, thanks for watching!
While we haven’t used any specialized software for a case like this before, I found some options that could be useful, including MDsyncNET, Rotageek, and QGenda.
About Asana, it will depend on the complexity of what you want to build. As you might know, this is a project management tool, so I don’t know if it is the best option. However, if you want to build a lite version of what you are looking for, I am sure you can find some workarounds.
@@MarquisMurray thank you so much for your help
This is well detail
Glad it was helpful! Be sure to check out the updated 2024 version of this video.
Quality content 🥇🥇🥇🥇subbed
Thank you! Very much appreciated.
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
Which CRM do you recommend to work together with asana ?
Hey, thanks for asking! I'm a big fan of HubSpot as a CRM that works great with Asana. It's a smooth integration that can boost your team's efficiency.
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Great work Marquis, always great valuable content.
Too kind, Michael!
Q2 - Is Asana designed for department heads? because the more I learn about it the more I noticed it is focused on individuals and their tasks where a manager can assign and then monitor progress, but it is in no way a Project Management tool - Am I correct or does it have a PM module that is missing here?
Example: Does Asana can set and reset a Baseline for a project? Can you find a critical path for the project? Can it have joined sub-projects? can it incorporate individual calendars and calculate resource availability? can it incorporate Lead-Time or Gaps? can A project incorporate multiple Milestones? And last but not least - Can Asana have all the above in a single project?
If not, then WHY is Asana selling the idea of Asana as a Project management tool?
I get what you mean, Abe. Asana is primarily a team collaboration tool that helps managers and even department heads to manage their teams' tasks and monitor their project's progress. There are Asana templates that can help you identify critical paths and free floats, and you can incorporate multiple milestones and set project baselines within Asana. The tool is not as entirely dedicated to project management as MS Projects, but it's still a great tool for PMs to manage projects. Hope this helps!
great video I am learning a lot from you question how can i get the task that are in my task that is Approved into the Approvals section?
The sections in My Tasks are independent from the sections within a project. You can set up different rules for each use case. Hope that helps!
Hi Marquis, can I integrate my Gmail with Asana with prescheduled personalized messages?
No, you can’t. You can send emails from gmail to Asana. It turns them into tasks.
@@MarquisMurray okay thank you
Do you have a video on how I can do that?
good Shit Bro... you should be charging for this, it's that good
Appreciate that! I may just do that one of these days.
If you try to use this product you will find that it's extremely expensive to get it to do what you expect. Free, cheap, and pretty expensive versions do almost nothing at all. Prices are misleading, they are for each person who accesses the product. So real costs, even in a small company, are 10 or 20 times quoted.
Sorry you’ve had a bad experience with Asana. Their sales and support teams could help sort this out for you.
@@MarquisMurray thanks but no, they can't and they won't. For example when I showed them that the function I want (EXTREMELY BASIC) is explicitly listed as included with the version I pay for, they just said that doesn't mean what it says you don't get that with your level of service.
using asana for business requires more business related examples. I can't seem to transition between your non-business examples to production environment. this training was useless.
Sorry you feel that way, George. I have lots of other videos with numerous business examples. Good luck in your learning journey.
Asana sucks as no single seat plan an you have not warned people for that before having them waste time on this crap. why to spent 60$ for an app per month for 2 seat min
This video was created to educate people who are curious on how to use Asana. I can’t cover everything in the videos. This is good feedback for future videos though. Thanks.
The first 2.25 minutes are a waste of time. please UA-camrs, jump into the subject quicker. we are not interested in your intros.
Thanks for letting me know. Since this video, I have recognized the same thing and have significantly reduced the intro of new videos. Thanks for your comment.