What is Asana?
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Forrester, Inc. reports that “Asana simplifies team-based work management". Asana is a lightweight easy to use task management system that lets you organized tasks into workspaces, organizations and projects:
Many of our customers are using SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan in heterogeneous environments, with different teams using different tools to manage team-level development activities. For example, teams may be using Jira, GitLab and Azure DevOps in the same company. Several customers reached out to us looking for us to add a similar connector for Asana so that managers could create and assign the tasks in SpiraTeam, but allow the teams to track and complete their tasks in Asana.
We are seeing a move away from some of the more heavyweight, complex tools such as Jira, Rational products and Micro Focus ALM to newer tools such as SpiraTeam and GitLab. The new plugin for Asana is the next step in that trend.
How Does the Plugin Work?
Our new plugin for Asana is available for both cloud and on-premise customers of SpiraTeam. For on-premise customers you need to download the plugin into your environment:
For cloud customers it is available already on our cloud synchronization platform.
Once enabled, you can log new incidents and tasks directly in SpiraTeam as normal:
The new incidents and tasks will then be synchronized over to Asana as a new task:
When users make any of the following changes in Asana, they will synchronize back into Spira:
- Assign the task to someone
- Mark the task as completed
- Add a comment to the task
- Make changes to its name or description
In addition, the Spira task will automatically include a hyperlink to the corresponding item in Asana:
About SpiraTeam
SpiraTeam is a complete agile software development management system that manages your project's requirements, releases, iterations, tasks and bugs/issues. Designed specifically to support agile methodologies such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), DSDM and Agile Unified Process (AUP) it allows teams to manage all their information in one environment. In SpiraTeam, each project has a dashboard home-page that summarizes all of the information regarding the project into a comprehensive, easily digestible form that provides a “one-stop-shop” for people interested in understanding the overall status of the project at a glance. It contains summary-level information for all types of artifact (requirements, test cases, incidents, etc.) that you can use to drill-down into the appropriate section of the application.
About Inflectra
Founded in 2006, Inflectra is a market leader in software test management, test automation and application lifecycle management space. The company is headquartered in the USA, but has offices in over 10 countries. Known globally for its legendary customer support, Inflectra makes turn-key solutions that address many challenges in software test management and QA, test automation and product lifecycle management. Its methodology agnostic software tools are used in many industries where portfolio management, requirements traceability, release planning, resource management, document workflow and enterprise risk analysis are required. The company uses a concurrent pricing model for all its tools with unlimited products, projects, sprints, tests, API calls, included in a single price. All Inflectra products have a 30-day free trial.