BackStory: Hey everyone! We’ve decided to use a task template for a project that is recurring every 6 weeks (A menu cycle where there are emails, website builds, etc etc) .
I met with a couple team members today (I’m on the biz tier) and we created a company wide calendar just listing actual dates of things, like “6 week Menu Cycle”. for when it starts.
We back dated the sub tasks in the first task template, with the final deadline being the date the new menu cycle starts. Worked great!
The problem: I thought I could set it to show up as a recurring event every 6 weeks, but if I do that, then the next 6 week cycle only shows up when the first task is marked as completed. That’s not going to work, as we’re trying to get all the launch dates of these projects scheduled out for the year so we can plan AROUND Them. I’m trying really hard to keep everything in asana for ease of use.
Question: What is best practice here? I THINK the best practice is to copy the “6 week menu cycle task” and then slide it down to the following 6 weeks and then re-assign the tasks based on the human? My thought was the FIRST sub task would be assigned to me (the project manager) to 'distribute the tasks" so like 2 weeks before the work needs to get done I have a task to assign this to everyone.
Is this the right way to move forward? I’m not sure. We’re still a relatively new company (entering our 3rd year) so I still need some fluidity in creating sub tasks because some things may change as we grow/evolve and I don’t want to have to go re-edit 6 months worth of copied tasks.
Thoughts?
Could a work-around be a sub task that repeats each menu cycle somehow and then all the sub-tasks auto-populate when the 6-week cycle before is checked off?
HELP!
I’d pay for some guidance here, too, if there are any asana pros in this group.
Thanks!