# Command by Asana | Planning and Product Development System > Command by Asana, the planning and product development system is now available. Source: https://asana.com/inside-asana/command-by-asana ## Command by Asana, the planning and product development system for builders, now available **Engineers stay in flow, releases hit their dates, and leaders always know where to look for the answer without a meeting.** Coding agents changed how software gets built, but the systems around them have not caught up. Specs live in a Google document, tickets live in an issue tracker, decisions live in meeting notes, capacity lives in spreadsheets. When it's time to hand a task to a coding agent, someone pastes whatever they remember into a prompt and hopes it holds. Everyone involved pays for that gap differently. An engineer loses time re-reading old messages to reconstruct context that a team member already had. A coding agent has no such recovery option: it starts from a single prompt and whatever exists in the codebase, often builds the wrong thing, and waits for a person to catch the mistake in review.  An engineering manager spends valuable time reconciling capacity across spreadsheets, issue trackers, and backlogs that were never meant to agree with each other. An engineering leader ends up scheduling another meeting just to find out what's going on, because the information exists somewhere, just not anywhere they can see it all at once. The more a team relies on agents to write code, the more expensive that gap gets. **Command by Asana closes the gap, and we're excited to share that it's now available.** #### Command by Asana product sizzle reel_“Command is a novel approach to a difficult problem: coordinating work across the many agents and tools modern engineering teams use. Its open-platform design lets developers bring Grok Build into a broader orchestration layer without being locked into a closed system.” -_**Toni Adams, Head of Global Partnerships, SpaceXAI** Command by Asana connects release planning, meetings, the codebase, and coding agents in one place. It turns scattered decisions and existing context into execution-ready specs and tickets, so engineers don’t have to reconstruct that information every time they switch tickets or kick off a worktree. Engineering managers see the state of delivery without pulling from four different tools. Leaders know what is shipping and when, without another status meeting. _“Writing code stopped being the bottleneck. Coordinating everything around it did not. An agent can produce a change in minutes, but deciding what to build, giving it the context to build the right thing, and verifying what comes back are still human, still cross-functional, and still scattered across five systems. Agentic coding needs an orchestration layer. That's what Command is.” -_ **Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer, Asana**  Command by Asana also connects engineering work to broader product and GTM planning. Because it shares the same underlying foundation as Asana, the work behind every release lives in the same system as the company goals and GTM outcomes it supports. Anyone looking at a shipped feature can see that connection from the start rather than piecing it together after the fact. ## **Why we built Command** Over the past 18 months, our conversations with engineering organizations surfaced the same three breakdowns. We built Command to address them:  - **Engineers spend time unblocking agents:** Decisions made in Slack, design reviews, and meetings don't reach the ticket. An engineer digging back through old messages to find that context loses real time. An agent with no access to it starts and often builds the wrong thing that needs to be reworked. - **Release risk is invisible until too late:** Planning and execution live in separate systems, so problems don’t surface on time. Release estimates are a point-in-time guess entered by hand and don't reflect actual velocity, so an engineering manager can't give leadership a confident ship date without manually reconciling data across tools. - **Status updates are compiled manually from different tools****:** Engineering managers pull delivery data from the ticketing tool, check Slack for what's actually blocked, reconcile the two, then write up a summary for leadership.  ## **Built for faster, high-quality software development** - **Stay in flow:** Command automatically catalogs the decisions, context, and next steps agents need to stay efficient and keep moving. Engineers spend less time unblocking agents and more time on what’s next. - **Releases de-risk themselves:** Command monitors scope, dependencies, pacing, and risks in real time, surfacing blockers and adjusting plans before they cascade into delays. - **Always know the status, no meetings required**: Command gives engineering managers a live view of scope and delivery risk, so the answer to any leadership question is ready before anyone has to ask for it. ## **What makes Command by Asana different: The Work Graph®** Legacy dev tools track tickets, but context, coordination, and planning happen elsewhere, scattered across the tools teams actually use to get work done. Asana was built on a premise: work should be visible, accountable, and connected. Over the past 18 years, we've invested in the infrastructure that makes that possible: the Work Graph®.  The Work Graph is the one living map of every person, agent, task, request, project, goal, and dependency in the organization. It provides the shared context that people and agents act on, and serves as the foundation for Command.  That means engineering teams get: - **Inherited context.** Agents start with full context rather than being re-onboarded for every task, collapsing the time between assignment and productive work. - **Human-set boundaries.**People define what each agent can see and do, so scaling the number of agents doesn't scale the risk. - **Full attribution.** Every human and agent action lands on the same audit trail, preserving who did what and why. - **Connected across systems.**Work stays linked to the tools it already lives in: GitHub, Slack, the ticketing system, meeting notes. There's no re-integration tax. ## **Getting started** Command by Asana is available now. Reach out to your Account Manager for details on rollout and access for your team. If you are not yet an Asana customer, schedule a demo to see how Command turns decisions into coordinated engineering work. 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