Worksection vs. Asana: What to choose for work

Asana​

Rat­ings on catalogs

Who can use Work­sec­tion and Asana?

1. Your team size and the specifics of your busi­ness. The num­ber of employ­ees and the types of tasks you per­form on a dai­ly basis. 
2. Your request. Why do you need to imple­ment the sys­tem: you need to man­age time and resources; you need to con­trol the stages of devel­op­ing a prod­uct; you need to cen­tral­ize work to be able to com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly with customers. 

• You are a small or medi­um-sized com­pa­ny. Work­sec­tion is per­fect for orga­niz­ing teams of 10 to 100 people.
• If you are just start­ing to man­age your projects in a more con­sis­tent way. Work­sec­tion is not over­loaded with unnec­es­sary func­tions and set­tings, so it can be your guide to the world of project management.
• You run a ser­vice busi­ness and work with your clients on an hourly basis. And you need to keep track of time and resources. Built-in time track­ing and auto­mat­ed report­ing make Work­sec­tion an essen­tial tool for hourly based ser­vice teams.
• Cus­tomer focus is impor­tant to you. Work­sec­tion pro­vides live chat sup­port 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, rather than the chat­bot answers of com­pet­ing solutions.
• You have a lim­it­ed soft­ware bud­get. Work­sec­tion starts at $2.5 per user, which is much low­er than com­pet­ing solu­tions. At the same time, you have access to all the same fea­tures: task man­ag­er, kan­ban board, Gantt chart, etc.

You should con­sid­er alter­na­tives to Worksection

• If you are a tech­ni­cal team with a need for DevOps sup­port. Work­sec­tion has lim­it­ed func­tion­al­i­ty to ful­ly con­trol the prod­uct life­cy­cle and is more suit­able for gen­er­al project man­age­ment and orga­ni­za­tion of non-tech­ni­cal teams.
• If you are look­ing for a pre-built tem­plate solu­tion for a spe­cif­ic orga­ni­za­tion. The Work­sec­tion func­tion­al­i­ty does not pro­vide the user with ready-made tem­plates for project completion. 
• If you are in need of a sys­tem for the orga­ni­za­tion of your sales depart­men­t’s work with cus­tomers and tele­pho­ny. In that case, you should pay atten­tion to the CRM sys­tems. Work­sec­tion is designed for man­ag­ing projects and does not sup­port work­ing with cus­tomer data­bas­es or inte­grat­ing tele­pho­ny systems.

Asana

You should con­sid­er Asana if

• You have a large team. Asana gives you the space to orga­nize team­work for 100 peo­ple or more.
• You are look­ing for a sys­tem that comes with pre-built tem­plates. Asana has over 80 tem­plates based on com­mon work­flows and man­age­ment practices.
• You have a desire to cus­tomize the sys­tem to make it work for you. Use cus­tom fields to add addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion to tasks in your Asana projects.
• You are pre­pared to pay more. Asana is priced high­er than aver­age, so you need to be pre­pared to make a sig­nif­i­cant finan­cial investment. 

Look for an alter­na­tive to Asana if

• You’re on a bud­get. The price of $10.99 per user may be over­whelm­ing for small teams and startups.
  
• You want live, real-time sup­port. Asana pro­vides its cus­tomers with sup­port bots and tick­et­ing sys­tems. As a result, there is some­times a prob­lem get­ting quick answers.

Com­par­i­son table

Work­sec­tion reports and time tracker

With Work­sec­tion you can see

• See how long it took to com­plete cer­tain tasks and how much you earned. You will know the exact num­ber of hours you have spent on the project and where you have gone over bud­get. This trans­paren­cy helps you to con­trol your mar­gins and to opti­mize your resources.
• Real team work­load: who is on which projects and how many resources are allo­cat­ed. This allows you to avoid putting too much pres­sure on any one per­son or department.

How does it work?

1. Cre­ate a project, sched­ule it, and spec­i­fy the num­ber of hours to com­plete it. 
2. Divide the project into tasks and use a time track­er to mon­i­tor their progress.
3. Con­duct a plan-to-fact analy­sis of the resources used for a sin­gle task or whole project. The main indi­ca­tors are dis­played on the inter­ac­tive project dash­board, includ­ing the total num­ber of hours spent and the project timeline.
4. Adjust team’s work­load based on auto­mat­ed reports. Work­sec­tion allows you to cus­tomize reports accord­ing to your request and auto­mat­i­cal­ly groups all the nec­es­sary data in one place. 
5. Con­trol your mar­gins and adjust the cost of ser­vices with Work­sec­tion hourly billing. The trans­paren­cy of work­flows and their doc­u­men­ta­tion helps com­pa­nies grow by improv­ing resource control.

Time track­er

Work­sec­tion time tracker

• Intro­duce trans­paren­cy into time track­ing dur­ing project exe­cu­tion. The timer is launched in one click, after which all time data is auto­mat­i­cal­ly saved in the task. 
• Ana­lyze the plan/​fact of resources spent. Gen­er­ate account­abil­i­ty based on the data obtained and mon­i­tor com­pli­ance with the planned deadlines. 

Cus­tomized reporting

Fea­tures of Work­sec­tion reports:

Work­sec­tion Gantt chart

• Adjust the dis­play for com­pa­ny, project, and employ­ee activities. 
• See all stages of the work­flow on the time­line accord­ing to the set deadlines. 
• Set depen­den­cies between stages. 
  
   For exam­ple, you can set up a depen­den­cy so that task B can­not start until task A is complete.

Kan­ban

Work­sec­tion Kanban

Work­sec­tion’s Kan­ban displays:

• keep track of the stage of indi­vid­ual project tasks; 
• cus­tomise the names of the stages to suit your needs and processes; 
• use the peo­ple kan­ban to assess employ­ee workload; 
• assign a per­son respon­si­ble for the sta­tus. For exam­ple, make sure that the task auto­mat­i­cal­ly returns to its author at the ​“approval” stage;
• auto­mate the sequence of sta­tus­es with the Next Sta­tus fea­ture. After set­ting up this func­tion, the task will auto­mat­i­cal­ly move to the next sta­tus after com­ple­tion instead of closing.