Asana lacks task duration field for automatic deadline adjustment
Asana does not have a native task duration field, preventing users from automatically cascading end-date changes based on effort estimates. Project managers must manually recalculate and update dates when plans shift. This is a feature gap in an otherwise mature PM platform.
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