Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz, who was responsible for making sure the computers straining to run Facebook’s expanding network never went down, has designed a new workplace management software, Quentin Hardy writes for The New York Times.The software’s name? Asana, after the Sanskrit word meaning “easeful posture,” Mr. Hardy writes.Yoga practitioners think of it in terms of complex poses done effortlessly. “You should read a lot into the name,” Mr. Moskovitz said.Tasks can be named and assigned across the company, then shut down or subdivided as the work progresses. People can rank, or have others rank, which of their jobs need attention soonest. If a company wants, anyone can look in on anyone else’s work, offering help and criticism. “We think of e-mail, in-person meetings, and whiteboards as our competition,” said Justin Rosenstein, Mr. Moskovitz’s co-founder at Asana.Like Mr. Moskovitz, Mr. Rosenstein came from Facebook, though he stopped first at Google where he built an early system for engineers to organize their work. At Facebook, he helped invent the “like” button and ran Facebook’s Pages project, which is a way for brands and celebrities to build networks. He was frustrated, he said, building “an enormously ambitious project, and losing a lot of time around coordination.”
Source:NewYork Times
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