# What's the best task management tool for visual workflow automation across cross-functional teams?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Hey G2 community, what's the best task management tool for visual workflow automation across teams that don't all work the same way? Comparing tools in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/task-management">task management</a> category on that cross-functional piece specifically.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/asana/reviews"><strong>Asana</strong></a> reviewers describe real flexibility here, with one specifically noting they can use it for simple task lists on one project and build out detailed workflows on another, depending on what the team actually needs.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/monday-com/reviews"><strong>monday AI Work Platform</strong></a> reviewers point to visual status tracking and automations that keep projects moving without constant manual follow-up between teams, though AI features being tied to higher pricing tiers comes up as a complaint.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/smartsheet/reviews"><strong>Smartsheet</strong></a> reviewers cite the ability to link columns across sheets so one source of truth updates automatically everywhere else, cutting out the need to update the same dropdown content in multiple places by hand.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For teams running workflows that touch multiple departments, has automation actually reduced the status-check meetings, or does cross-functional work still need a human checking in regardless of the tool?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Task Management reviews on G2 for cross-functional visual workflows describe flexibility itself as the feature that varies most across these three. Asana&#39;s reviewers specifically describe using simple task lists on one project and detailed workflows on another inside the same tool, which is a different kind of flexibility than monday&#39;s visual status tracking and automation, which is more about keeping a single, defined workflow moving without manual follow-up.
Smartsheet&#39;s linked columns updating automatically across sheets is solving a data-consistency problem more than a workflow-visibility one, removing the specific failure mode where the same dropdown value has to be updated by hand in several places. The post&#39;s own question about whether automation actually reduces status-check meetings is probably answered differently depending on which of these three a team picks, since Smartsheet&#39;s approach mostly prevents stale data rather than replacing a human check-in, while monday&#39;s automation is more directly aimed at reducing the manual follow-up a status meeting exists to replace.


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