Hello Community! ![]()
A situation I see quite often:
A product or operations team plans work in Asana. Engineering manages delivery in Azure DevOps.
Both teams have workflows that work well for them β until they need answers to simple questions:
β Has this request been picked up by engineering?
β What is currently blocking delivery?
β Which roadmap items are already in development?
The first solution is usually manual updates:
β someone recreates tasks
β someone copies comments
β someone updates statuses before every meeting
It works when there are only a few items. But as projects grow, priorities change, and more teams get involved, keeping both systems aligned becomes a workflow of its own.
One thing Iβve noticed: most teams donβt actually need to duplicate everything between Asana and Azure DevOps.
The harder (and more important) questions are usually:
β’ Which Asana tasks should create development work?
β’ Which Azure DevOps updates are useful for business teams?
β’ Which fields and statuses actually need to stay aligned?
β’ Where should ownership remain?
We put together a guide covering these decisions, including sync direction, field mapping, and common AsanaβAzure DevOps workflow patterns.
Iβm curious how others approach this:
Do you keep product planning and engineering execution in separate tools and connect them, or have you moved everything into one platform?
Cheers,
Oliwia