Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

April 2024

What's New: What we launched in April 2024

In the ever-evolving world of product planning, staying ahead of the curve is essential. This month, we want to share with you a series of updates designed to streamline your process and enhance collaboration. We’ve fine-tuned the Planner app, turbocharged Azure DevOps collaboration, and built some more features to boost your diagramming experience. These and other enhancements are poised to elevate your productivity to new heights.

How I do it in Miro: Run retrospectives with software engineer Rob Hopps

Even if you’re not an engineer, if you work in tech, chances are you’re familiar with retrospectives. Some might argue that retros are a waste of time, emphasize the negatives, or can suffer from a recency bias. Despite these challenges, retros are an important part of development work. They help teams learn from past mistakes, celebrate the successes, and — when practiced long-term — can capture trends and patterns that foster more comprehensive insights.

Invest in winning ideas with assumption mapping

A healthcare tech team has an exciting new idea. They see an opportunity to integrate new app features that support patient care beyond telemedicine appointments, like how-to videos for home exercise programs prescribed by physical therapists and detailed dietary guidelines from nutritionists. So they send out user surveys and develop a beta version for early adopters, who enjoy the new additions. But when they roll out the final version, it’s a flop. What happened?

BOOST Your Workflow with Miro's STICKY NOTES: Efficient Tips & Tricks

Transform your productivity and organization skills with the power of Miro's sticky notes! This video is a treasure trove of tips and tricks to help you make the most out of this versatile tool. Perfect for team collaboration, project planning, or personal organization, our guide will show you how to streamline your workflow like never before.

Embedding Miro into Your Favorite Tools: A Comprehensive Guide

Expand the functionality of your favorite tools by embedding Miro! This detailed tutorial shows you how to seamlessly integrate Miro boards into various platforms and tools, enhancing your workflow and collaboration. Whether you’re using project management software, design tools, or educational platforms, you’ll learn how to bring the power of Miro's visual collaboration into your daily toolset.

Agile beyond software development: How to empower non-tech teams

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “Agile?” It’d be no surprise if your mind goes straight to software engineering, given Agile’s origins as a self organized way of working for developers in the early 2000s. But in recent years, its methodologies have become ubiquitous as a highly efficient way for all teams to work, with its frameworks used everywhere from marketing to HR, in military operations, and beyond.

Prudential's Agile teams drive trust and accelerate PI planning with Miro

Discover how Prudential utilizes Miro to foster innovation and collaboration. With remote and hybrid work environments, Miro has become essential for seamless teamwork and design processes. Agile teams at Prudential leverage Miro for PI planning, retrospectives, and other agile events, promoting transparency and collaboration. By replacing traditional in-person retrospectives with Miro's dynamic interface, Prudential enhances visibility and trust within teams. The recent integration of Jira and Miro streamlines workflows, reducing overhead time and increasing employee satisfaction.

How I do it in Miro: Jumpstart journey mapping with product designer Maureen H.

Previously we launched a new “How I do it in Miro” video series hosted both by regular users and our very own Mironeers. These videos are designed to help you learn — fast — how you can use Miro for your specific job. The first video featured Miro UX researcher Deniz Kartepe, who demonstrated how he uses Miro to run a research project end to end. You can read about it here.

Achieve continuous improvement with as-is and to-be process mapping

In 1952, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald closed their BBQ restaurant for three months to focus on one small aspect of their business: hamburgers. Like many other restaurants at that time, their processes were slow and inefficient. They cooked menu items to order, used non-disposable dishes, and delivered meals via carhops. To cut costs and serve hamburgers faster, the brothers took their crew out to a tennis court.

How I Do Customer Journey Mapping in Miro

Product designer Maureen is here to show you her journey map creation process in Miro. See how Maureen deep dives into understanding users' experiences, working hand in hand with them to sketch out their journey. All within the platform. She'll share the details of how she and her team brainstorm ideas to tackle insights they uncover — and craft a practical plan to move forward.

How AI-powered tools can improve enterprise security

Developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have had a huge impact on content creation, innovation, and collaboration. Everything from creating text, images, and videos, to sorting unstructured information, and generating or analyzing software code are easy to accomplish with the help of GenAI. But what can GenAI do when it comes to security?

How to build resilient teams with Agile expert Diana Larsen

Diana Larsen is an international authority in Agile software development, leadership, and transformations. She’s also the co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams, and The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning. Her most recent book, Lead Without Blame, is particularly relevant now, as it addresses the crucial need for enterprises to build resilient teams in today’s increasingly competitive and challenging landscape.

Integrating Miro with Video Chat Apps: Enhance Your Teams Meetings

Revolutionize your online meetings with Miro's seamless integration into video chat applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Miro effectively during virtual meetings, making your collaborations more interactive and productive. Ideal for remote teams, educators, and anyone looking to add a dynamic visual element to their video conferences.

Why sustainability needs to be every business' top priority: An interview with Miro Principal Product Evangelist Bram Jonker

Whether it’s reported in the news or discussed in the boardroom, environmental concerns are top of mind these days — and sustainability is increasingly influencing how companies do business, what projects they’re prioritizing, and how they plan for the future. We spoke with Bram Jonker, Principal Product Evangelist at Miro, to learn how organizations are leveraging innovation to tackle this complex challenge.

Should we scale, and if so, how?: Dissecting the Scaled Agile debate

It’s been 23 years since the Agile Manifesto transformed software development. Frameworks like Scrum and Kanban and other Agile practices have allowed teams to move away from rigid, linear processes to more flexible ones that focus on delivering value to customers faster. Since then, the world of Agile has expanded in scope.

Unlock your innovation potential with these 8 AI-powered ideas from the Miro Community

From organizing ideation sessions to automating manual project management updates, the opportunities to supercharge product workflows with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools are virtually endless. At this point, it’s less of a question of if, but rather, how teams are harnessing the power of AI to unlock their organization’s full innovation potential.

Miro is Google Cloud's 2024 Technology Partner of the Year in Productivity and Collaboration: Innovation

We’re thrilled to announce that Miro has won the Google Cloud 2024 Technology Partner of the Year Award in Productivity and Collaboration: Innovation, in recognition of our commitment to an excellent customer experience. Today, Google announced all 2024 Google Cloud Partner Award winners, celebrating companies around the globe that play a key role in helping customers drive innovation with visionary technology. Miro included!

From pain points to progress: accelerating your Well-Architected Framework Reviews

Creating an architecture that not only supports your business, but enhances it, is not a one-and-done task. It requires continuous reflection, learning, and improvement. For organizations that build on AWS, Well-Architected Framework Reviews play a critical role in their success. Designed to enable teams to assess and improve their architecture, the process can enhance performance, ensure stability and security, and maximize cost-efficiency.

Mastering Collaboration in Miro: A Guide to Team Success

Unlock the full potential of team collaboration with Miro! This video is your ultimate guide to harnessing the collaborative features of Miro, making teamwork more efficient, engaging, and productive. Whether you're working on a complex project, brainstorming sessions, or coordinating with remote teams, our tips and strategies will help you collaborate in Miro like never before.

New & noteworthy Miroverse templates: March 2024

For some, March is known for its madness — for the Miroverse community, March has been a month full of innovation and creativity. Featuring everything from productivity powerhouses to mood-boosting marvels, this roundup is your ticket to exploring the best templates of the month. Let’s show these creators some love for their brilliant contributions to Miroverse in March! 💛

How to get innovation done: A roadmap for leaders

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the imperative for innovation has never been more clear. Leaders across industries understand that the key to relevance and sustainability lies in continuous adaptation and evolution. In fact, Miro’s global innovation survey reveals that nearly all enterprise leaders believe a company will become extinct if it fails to innovate — so the clock is ticking.

15 creative org chart examples to map out your people and processes

A company is like a living organism. Employees come and go, teams reorganize, and workflows change. To visualize your organizational structure as it evolves, it’s useful to have a living document like an organizational chart. Beyond tracking your employee structure at a glance, an org chart helps to train new hires, document processes, and allocate resources. If you think org charts are all the same, think again.

Efficiently Using Miro Templates: Enhance Your Workflow Now!

Step up your Miro game by mastering the use of templates! This video is a deep dive into the world of Miro templates, showing you how to select, customize, and effectively use them for various projects and workflows. Whether you’re managing a team, planning a project, or organizing information, our guide will help you leverage Miro’s templates for maximum efficiency.

Introducing org charts (beta) to help you plan and strategize your business

To stay competitive, enterprise organizations need to set clear goals, define strategies, and allocate the right resources to drive the actions needed to achieve objectives. This all requires organizational planning. If you’re a business leader, this also means optimizing your organization’s structure. Doing so will help you identify redundancies across teams, and skill sets.

Finding your fit: how to get started with hybrid agile

Agile methodologies — techniques and practices that prioritize collaboration and flexibility — have long been a reliable fixture on most product teams who want to deliver value while still having the flexibility to adapt to changes. But as technological advancements, regulatory shifts, distributed teamwork, and rising customer expectations make projects increasingly complex, even Agile methodologies can feel too rigid and one-size-fits-all.

Diagram Like a Pro: Miro's Integration with Draw.io, PlantUML & Mermaid!

Dive into the world of sophisticated diagramming with Miro's seamless integration of open-source tools: draw.io, PlantUML, and Mermaid. This video is designed for professionals and teams who want to enhance their diagramming capabilities, offering comprehensive insights into creating network diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, and more within Miro's collaborative platform. From straightforward interfaces to intricate designs, we cover the essentials to harness the power of these integrations effortlessly.