I’ve recently come across a new tool, Capacities.io. They’re nowhere near Asana in terms of maturity, but they have a few very interesting features, one being their graph view.
First, Capacities allow many-to-many relationships across the whole platform, something that is already limited quite significantly in Asana. So I can create ‘countries’ as an object, and each country can then be linked to everything from meetings to notes to people (other objects) in m2m relations.
But the killer feature really is seeing that in a graph view, with the ability to zoom in/out to first degree, second degree etc. For every single object, there is a little sidebar view allowing you to see how this record is related to other records - it really is baked in at the basic level.
I read that Asana already works with what you call the Asana Work Graph. It would make so much sense to elevate this from a conceptual plan to a real product feature. Preferably including the many-to-many linking ability.
I really wish that I could use Asana to generate a visual representation of a Work Graph similar to the figure that Asana uses to display when explaining the relationships between an organization’s goals, portfolios, projects, and tasks. I have a nested portfolio structure, and it would really be nice to see that visually when I am explaining it to others.
Good point, but only a very partial help, since it only applies if you’re using Goals and most are not, and even if using Goals, it won’t show all relationships/linkages, just those connected as goal progress measures.
I know Asana has demonstrated fun, immersive, 3d visualizations of the work graph at events which is also related.
I have seen a demo of this 3rd party tool which is primarily built for auditing purposes but can display and very impressive tree hierarchy of goals, teams / portfolios, projects etc.
That is exactly one of the features we have built into Oneview, a visual Work Graph that automatically maps the relationships between goals, portfolios, projects, and tasks in Asana.
We would be happy to give you a short demo so you can see how it looks for your own environment.
Feel free to reach out at wessel.vantklooster@onelink.nl
