Asana moves beyond simple task management with new update

One of the key problems with doing work in a group is managing who's doing what tasks when. In a traditional workplace, that's often handled with status meetings, email chains and layers of management to help wrangle what everyone is doing. That's the problem that Asana originally set out to solve with the product it launched first in 2012. 

The company's core product allows business users to track tasks for teams and projects so that it's easy to see what people are working on and how progress on key tasks is going. 

Asana made a three announcements on Wednesday morning that the company says is a major evolution of its product -- including one that vastly expands the product's capabilities. Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein took the stage during a press event at the company's offices to unveil a new design for their company's eponymous product, along with new group messaging capabilities and a Track Anything function that lets users expand tasks beyond how they were traditionally used. 

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