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As an engineering leader, one of the greatest gifts you can give your team is clarity of purpose, plan, and responsibility. Recently, Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey sat down with Plato to discuss why clarity is so important and how it impacts goals. Here are some of his insights and advice for setting engineering goals that are transparent and empowering to team members, no matter where in the world they’re working.

Read this article in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, or Japanese. Your Asana Inbox is your one-stop-shop for coordinating work, commenting on tasks, and responding to requests. But managing your Inbox can be a little tricky—especially if the tasks have started piling up. First things first: Should you use your Asana Inbox? The answer is a resounding “Yes!” When used effectively, your Inbox can help you coordinate everything you’re working on.

When you close your eyes and imagine the future of work, what comes to mind? How do teams work, collaborate, stay engaged, and find mindful focus? For years, Asana has been on a mission to help the world’s teams thrive. As a leading work management platform for teams of all sizes, we’ve been at the forefront of answering these questions and solving the collaboration challenges of tomorrow. In 2018 we shared our product vision with the world, and made it a reality for customers.

Staying connected is no easy task, but during the shift to remote work team leads have had to adapt on the fly to managing distributed teams. Learn how these five Asana managers are helping their teams collaborate while working remotely.

World Productivity Day is June 20th. Usually, we’d be gearing up to share tips and best practices on how to be your most productive self with Asana. But with the various challenges teams have experienced in 2020, our definition and expectations of productivity have changed. This year, instead of focusing on individual productivity, we want to help you center on connecting and collaborating with your team in order to be at your most effective—together.

The way the world works is evolving and Asana, through its integration with Microsoft Teams, gives teams the tools they need to securely collaborate, communicate, and coordinate their work, from anywhere. That’s why we’re excited to deepen our collaboration with Microsoft, and announce the launch of our new and improved Asana for Microsoft Teams integration.

The last ten years saw businesses adopt collaborative applications, but the “Work from Home” needs generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a hyper-acceleration of adoption. Prior to the pandemic, this market was already growing at over 20% annually according to IDC, but COVID-19 enabled the adoption of collaborative applications to accelerate by five years.