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By Sarah Laoyan
Waterfall project management is a sequential project management methodology that's divided into distinct phases. Each phase begins only after the previous phase is completed. This article explains the stages of the waterfall methodology and how it can help your team achieve their goals. Project managers have many different types of project management methodologies to choose from. There's Agile project management, Kanban project management, Scrum, and many more iterative processes that you can use.
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By Alicia Raeburn
When launching a new product, organizations are faced with many challenges. For example, issues like fragmented communication, lack of visibility, and unclear goals are common. Learn strategic solutions to streamline processes and enhance team collaboration for successful product launches. On paper, product launches seem deceptively simple—you brainstorm a great product, set a game plan and, with a few adjustments, set a successful launch in motion.
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By Julia Martins
OKRs stand for objectives and key results, a goal-setting framework that can help your team set and track measurable goals. Originally pioneered by John Doerr, this framework pairs the company-level objectives you want to achieve with the key results you’ll use to measure progress—so your goals are tied to your team’s day-to-day work. In this article, we explain how the OKR process works and share examples to get you started setting OKRs for your company, team, or personal life.
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By Caeleigh MacNeil
The data doesn’t lie—a good onboarding process leads to happier, more productive employees. But while onboarding can increase retention rates by 82%, only 12% of employees strongly agree that their organization does a great job of onboarding new hires. Creating a smooth onboarding process is challenging, so it’s not surprising that some organizations fall short. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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By Sarah Laoyan
A project dependency is a task that relies on the completion of a different task. This article breaks down key terms associated with dependencies and the different kinds of dependencies you may see in project management. Much like a relay race, projects are often completed by passing tasks from one team member to the next. Unlike a relay race, some project tasks require other tasks to move forward before they can be started. This relationship between tasks is known as a dependency.
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By Caeleigh MacNeil
Initiatives can’t succeed without the right resources. Nobody knows this better than Rita Khayat, Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations. Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track—which she does by allocating the right resources, at the right time, to the most important work. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Resource management is essential for each of these areas.
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By Caeleigh MacNeil
Rita Khayat is an expert at managing complex, company-wide programs. As Asana’s Head of PMO for Strategy and Operations, Khayat is responsible for keeping business-critical goals on track. She does this with clear processes, 20+ years of experience, and a knack for using Asana to its full potential. Khayat’s team is responsible for four main business areas within the CIO org: Together, these responsibilities span many different teams and require a high level of cross-functional coordination.
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By Alicia Raeburn
A cross-functional team is a permanent or temporary group of people with different types of experience working together to achieve a common goal. Cross-functional teams benefit companies because when team members with multiple skill sets work together, they can pursue company goals more efficiently. In this piece, we’ll explain what a cross-functional team is and provide tips for how to build one.
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By Team Asana
You may know what project management is, but have you ever heard the term program management? While the two sound similar, you might be surprised to learn there’s a lot that sets them apart. Whether you’re searching for the right role for your team or want to improve your work management processes and methodologies, we’ll help you understand the differences between a program manager vs. project manager.
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By Caeleigh MacNeil
A 30-60-90 day plan outlines the first 90 days of a new team member’s employment and familiarizes them with company policies, teamwork, and goals. This action plan helps your team members check off essential items as they adjust to their new work environment. In this piece, we’ll outline the key components of a 30-60-90 day plan and explain why having one is beneficial.
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By Asana
Welcome to the April edition of What’s new in Asana. First, create status updates faster with smart status. Asana Intelligence will start a draft status for you, pulling real-time work data in portfolios and goals and highlighting any risks, questions, and roadblocks. Next, save time by quickly duplicating entire sections of tasks within the same project. Finally, use today’s date in a custom field formula calculation to track the duration of progress or time spent on a task.
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By Asana
Work often includes necessary but repetitive steps. Handoffs to co-workers, approval processes, and triaging requests are all examples of essential, repetitive, and time-consuming work. In this video, learn how to use rules in Asana to automate common steps in your workflows.
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By Asana
Welcome to the March edition of What’s New in Asana. First, easily share projects with the right groups with the addition of the “share with organization” privacy setting. Next, sort portfolios by connected goals to highlight work related to those goals. Finally, add actual time as an effort field in Workload. You can also compare it to the estimated time.
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By Asana
Have you been pinged for a status update? Before you fire up the spreadsheets and docs, here's how to do it in Asana. Keep your team in the loop with status updates on projects, portfolios, and goals in Asana. Check out this video to learn how to share status updates using real-time data, the latest highlights, and Asana Intelligence. Then see how your meetings can focus on actionable insights instead of long status readouts.
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By Asana
What will be the most influential change in how organizations work smarter in 2024? Four future of work experts - Greg Wells, Ph.D., Kelly Monahan, Ph.D., Daan van Rossum, and Rebecca Hinds, Ph.D. - discuss and debate their top predictions. Find out which prediction will rule them all!
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By Asana
Welcome to the January edition of What’s New in Asana. First, increase the visibility between work and the goals they support with connected goals in the Portfolio view. Next, gain additional control over your projects by adding or clearing a date custom field in rules. Finally, group tasks differently across List and Board views in projects and My Tasks.
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By Asana
Asana empowers organizations to work smarter. It's the only enterprise work management platform that connects company-wide goals, strategic initiatives, and the execution of work on a single platform. With Asana, individual contributors, managers, and executives at the world’s leading companies such as Amazon, Accenture, Roche, and T-Mobile to drive better business outcomes.
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By Asana
Learn how startups manage work in one platform whether it’s mission-critical or a daily task. Asana hosts all your work in one place so nothing falls through the cracks.
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By Asana
Discover how startups streamline onboarding with Asana's Workflow Builder. Save time by automating repetitive tasks, from benefits enrollment to scheduling CEO meet-and-greets. See the full potential of organized workflows for scaling startups and ensuring every team member starts strong.
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Asana helps you coordinate all the work your team does together. So everyone knows what needs to get done, who’s responsible for doing it, and when it’s due:
- Get organized: Plan and structure work in a way that’s best for you. Set priorities and deadlines. Share details and assign tasks. All in one place.
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- Hit deadlines: Create visual project plans to see how every step maps out over time. Pinpoint risks. Eliminate roadblocks. Even when plans change.
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