Managing processes - Loops, conditional branching etc

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Hello,

does Asana support management of complex processes, which include conditional branching and loops?

Conditional branching is necessary for anything that involves a decision,

Loops are useful for cases when some sequence of steps needs to be repeated possibly with a bit modified instructions in the next run.

Thanks in advance for your insight,

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Do you have a practical example? That would be when task A is done, then task C pops up?

Bastien
Asana consultant, author and developer

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Conditional branching

  • when there is a security incident, a manager on duty decides what parties should be involved, Involvement of each party represents a branch with next possible steps.

Loop

  • Processing of data cannot be completed because an error appeared, it is necessary to resolve the problem and try the steps necessary to start again.
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Asana does not really have this kind of automatic “connection”. But you can come close to this, using a mix of tasks containing steps and tasks/projects you can duplicate for various scenarios. Would that make sense?

For example: one task called “Security incident” containing notes “If incident X, create a project based on the template T_X, if Y, use template T_Y”.