Success Champions Magazine - July 2020

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Success Champions

Tech Corner

Trello vs Asana: Managing Your Growing Team in 2020 By Kevin Snow

A Implementing a project management system is the most popular answer to how to manage a growing team and more complex project load.

s your team grows it becomes more and more difficult to track what your team is working on and the status of different projects. Having teams working remotely to help stem the spread of COVID-19 adds an additional challenge to effectively keeping your project schedules on track. Implementing a project management system is the most popular answer to how to manage a growing team and more complex project load. But picking a project management tool is a very personal choice that is unique to every business. You need to consider the size of your team, how complex your workflows are, your budget, and what features you need vs what features you want.

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And because you will be entering information about your business into it, you also need to consider its security. There are several different tools on the market that you can use that fall into one of two classes, true project management tools and online team collaboration tools. Which category online apps fall into depends on their built-in features and ability to handle complex projects, ie: a rocket launch. Two of the most popular tools used by business to facilitate collaboration and manage tasks are Trello and Asana. Both systems are considered team collaboration tools as they are missing the advanced project management features found in fullscale project management systems including native time tracking and financial management.

Trello vs Asana: Features The first thing you will notice when you log in to Trello is that Trello only offers a Kanban board layout. This isn’t a bad thing. They have focused their development on one project management style, and it has paid off. Trello easily has the best Kanban set up I’ve seen in an online collaboration tool. Most of the core staples of project management are readily apparent, including task management, resource sharing within tasks, communication through task comments, and a shared team calendar. However, Trello does have a limited feature list. But the features they


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