Card #174 · Asana Apps & Integrations
Lack of flexible organizational hierarchy and custom layers
Merchants struggle with a rigid project structure that doesn't scale for complex, cross-departmental work. The current model forces a choice between too many fragmented projects or overwhelming subtask nesting, with limited ability to customize organizational levels or control field inheritance.
Pain score
0.87/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.72distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement1.00upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 5 verified quotes
a new organizational format would be helpful or the ability to customize your levels: a top-level container (like a portfolio instead of the current project format) where sections instead act as individual projects
The structure is probably less of a problem than the inconsistency between projects.
Mentally overwhelming architecture and decisions are forced onto every user, regardless of whether the change fits their reality.
Currently, the manual labor is making us look at asana alternatives
Actually this feature is what makes my company think twice if we will upgrade the account
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