From the course: Learning Asana

The Asana hierarchy - Asana Tutorial

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The Asana hierarchy

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- [Instructor] It's important to understand how Asana works before we launch and start using it. Knowing the hierarchy of Asana elements that get created in a project will make things a lot easier once you get started. So let's check it out now. Now, our focus in this course is using Asana in a corporate setting. So that's where we're going to start. When the very first person in an organization signs up for Asana using their company email address, Asana not only creates their account, but also creates an organization based on the company email domain used by the person signing up. So if I go to the Asana website and sign up using [email protected], my account gets created and an organization also gets created using red30tech.com. So at the very top of the Asana hierarchy is the organization for the company, in this case, red30tech.com. Now when people from Red30 Tech sign up with the same domain, they automatically become part of the organization. Now, next on the hierarchy is teams. People in the organization who have signed up for Asana can then either join existing teams or create teams of their own. Teams are a subset of people in the organization who might be working on projects together, and projects are next in the hierarchy. Projects can be anything people work on together. Think of an office relocation, a grand opening. Maybe an upcoming conference, a product launch, learning initiatives. And the list goes on and on as far as your imagination will take you. Inside those projects are tasks. Tasks in a project need to be completed by team members to complete the entire project, and they can be assigned to people, updated, reviewed, and eventually marked as complete. Now, for those signing up for Asana on their own, using a personal email address like Gmail or Yahoo, as not part of an organization, the hierarchy is similar, but with one big difference. There are no teams. Instead, a workspace is created for members and guests, and that's where the projects and their tasks reside. So that's the Asana hierarchy in a nutshell. This will all become clearer as we begin to work with Asana building teams, projects, and tasks as we move through the chapters and movies in this course. But the first step, obviously, is to get your Asana account. We'll look at how that's done next.

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