This might disappoint you…
But in most cases, you cannot accurately measure someone’s efficiency in Asana.
Unless your workflow is extremely standardized — like in a warehouse where people repeat the same action over and over — you won’t have a reliable benchmark.
In Asana, no two tasks are the same:
• Different sizes
• Different constraints
• Different priorties
That means metrics like “number of tasks completed” or “time spent” are misleading at best, dangerous at worst.
My advice?
• Use other metrics, potentially outside of Asana, if you want to measure efficiency.
• Accept that Asana shows what was done, not everything that was done.
• Recognize that people work differently: some create lots of tasks, some create none, some spend most of their time delegating — and that’s okay.
The takeaway: don’t judge performance by Asana task counts. Measure what really matters.
At i.DO we rely more on quarterly goals and don’t care much about what’s done to achieve those goals. And even if someone doesn’t reach a goal, that was a team « miss », we didn’t properly help them, it is never someone’s fault.
Bastien, Asana Expert
i.DO (Asana Partner: Services & Licenses)