People who will demo Agenda (5 min each)
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Demonstrations
Million Hearts Teamwork & Individual Tasks - LeeAnn
PHIT Team - Naomi
Meetings Templates - Liz
Asana One for All Team Process - Andrea
Discussion, Questions, Tricks
Questions to ask & answer |
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I’m not sure I find Milestones all that helpful - how do you use them and why are they helpful? Andrea P |
When you sit down at your computer in the morning, how do you know what to work on first? Noah P |
How does this integrate with Outlook? Jamie R Can integrate and create tasks from Asana. From Outlook messages, if they start in Asana they will be recorded in Asana as the thread goes back and forth in Outlook. |
What is the difference between messages and comments? Andrea P Comments relate to a particular task; messages is more general about the project, like general notes - only pertaining to project |
Task? | Million Hearts | PHIT | Informatics | Meetings | |
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LeeAnn | Naomi | Andrea | Liz | ||
1 | Keep track of workplans | X | X | X | |
2 | Keep track of my own daily tasks | X | X | X | |
3 | Use rules to assign to people, to move things from one category to another, to rename things | X | X | ||
5 | Use Workflow forms to keep track of items in process such as contracts, graphics, | X | X | ||
6 | Create lists of tasks and assignments for the team during meeting | X | X | ||
7 | Integrations with other programs | X | X | ||
8 | Store information - links, | X | |||
9 | Use templates and move them from project to project | X | |||
10 | Automatic approval routing? | ||||
11 | Calendar? | ||||
12 | Milestones | X | X | X | X |
13 | Workload (NEW FEATURE) |
Notes:
Million Hearts Teamwork & Individual Tasks - LeeAnn 12;04
It’s iterative
Team members use personal task board
When we identify tasks 2:05 we add them to a list and assign
Milestones - not a time limit but required for deliverable
how do you track priority in this format? Using the priority column - low, med, high.
team meeting agenda with buckets- this is separate from the Workplan, and it is one task that is recurring. Lead sets it to renew every 2 weeks, repopulates for 2 weeks in teh future - repopulates itself. Some things are permanent on the list. They put in notes for the
Set recurring tasks to alternate ownership and it pops up for the next person.
Share a board with the Communications team for my marketing/comms strategy
PHIT Team - Naomi - 2:11pm
Use it at the high level, meaning high-level goals for funded projects - deliverables.
Use priority column for low/med/high
submit a ticket for assistance, Naomi links the ticket that she submits to Comms so she can keep track in her plan by - helps to work across teams
they put important links related to a project on the Asana page, use Confluence as storage and finalized products, link confluence there, as well as sharepoint links to NTTAP guidance.
Most smaller level info is in Confluence
Daily task are in a notes page
Did you link to another project or just tag the comms team in the project?
Create ollow up task - choose project - it will come up as a task in your workp lan
Or just assign to up to two projects
Meetings workflow and Templates - Liz
Can make any project a locked, private task
Workflows
tickets can show up in projects
rules - to automatically set dates, like “set due date 5 days from now,” or “add these 2 collaborators”
Due dates are not limited to business days - this is a flaw that has been elevated to Asana
Template
Create project - from a template - use it and rename it - assignee stays in when you copy it.
If you put in the event date, does it fill in all the dates? No. Duration is not applicable because it does not take into account holidays, etc. You could automate them and change them manually after that.
Uses CCQ Portfolio with all projects in it
We could be pulling reports and the level of effort to demonstrate - if we used it.
Nic and Comms uses that feature - Level of Effort. Shows % of tasks assigned to team members
Do we have access to account rep to help us customize Asana to our uses? Through IT, we do.
Asana has a forum for Q&A, they do online webinars, recorded training content, Topic
Asana One for All Team Process - Andrea
Workplan level
If we use dependencies, it will help us see which tasks are done because the report will be tailored only to what can be done at any one time.
My tasks and priorities
Workflow
Discussion/Ideas
Upload files for deliverables so we have the deliverables on file when needed
Show clients the high-level plan and subtasks so client knows we are headed towards a goal. - as a PDF
Comments helps because you can only assign 1 (
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or two) so it helps with collaboration.
Discussion, Questions, Tricks
If there are checklists for processes that people have to do over and over, we could use Asana Templates and copy them for new uses.
People can use Asana to track their accomplishments and level of effort in advance of performance reviews
We could invite Asana users to list things they’d like to be able to do, and ask IT to access Asana support for us (after looking in Asana Forum).
Do a business process re-engineering exercise for things like contract request process, then ask a consultant or staffer to create automated routines for approval.
Find out what leadership is interested in seeing in reports and set up Asana to be able to collect and report on dashboards- or at least create an Excel spreadsheet that can be dumped into an other app to create visualizations.
Adopt the “minimum set” format for tracking workplans by funding code in Asana so that reports can roll up, and train users to abide by conventions (example - using dependencies might eliminate lots of tasks that look undone but are really waiting for other tasks to be finished).
Asana How-Tos:
Set up Project
Use the workplan as the basis for a funded project: Funding Code, then Title
Use Sections to divide if the workplan has major divisions
Include Major tasks
Put in start and due date for the whole project
Overview Section
List people’s roles
Format title if you normally use a nickname
Required columns for project format (make a template in a dummy project - give instructions inside the template)
Assigned, Due Date, Progress, Level of effort, Deliverable?
Set up portfolio
for team
by year
Conventions
Check the library of fields before creating new ones!!!!!
Clean up - periodic clean up
clean up your fields if you made them and don’t use them