Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

November 2024

What's New: What we launched in November 2024

This month we have been busy making some exciting updates to your Miro experience. From organizing your workspace with Spaces to making decisions faster with built-in Video Calls, and supercharging collaboration with Intelligent Widgets, there’s a lot to explore. Scroll down to take a look at What’s New in Miro this month.

What is a product manager? Skills, responsibilities, and Agile practices to know

A product manager is a complex job that involves orchestrating a lot of moving pieces and people to efficiently bring a product from idea to launch. It’s also a lucrative career, with professionals earning an average salary of $111,729. According to Lenny’s Newsletter, product manager roles have grown about 30% since 2010, with 2,500 to 4,500 product managers hired each month in the U.S.

Deliver Solutions Faster with Miro | Plan, Build, Review

Ready to turn your big idea into a tangible solution? In this video, we dive into the Delivery Phase—where you move from problem identification to executing a plan, building the solution, and reviewing the outcome. Learn how to turn your product brief into a granular roadmap, with milestones, timelines, and risk assessments. We’ll also show you how Miro helps you track progress and create a shared view of the work, avoiding silos between teams. Once the build is complete, we review the deliverables with stakeholders for feedback and iterate with retrospectives.

Top Discovery Frameworks in Miro and How to Use Them

Unlock the power of discovery with Miro! In this video, we explore key discovery frameworks to help you understand the problem space and drive innovation. We’ll cover how to use Mind Maps to visualize ideas and expand on signals from research, how the 5 Whys technique can help you reach the root cause of a problem, and why a clear problem statement is essential for aligning teams and stakeholders. You’ll see how Miro’s visual tools make these frameworks easy to apply, helping you solve user problems more effectively.

How to effectively balance data security with innovation

Organizations know that the ability to innovate is the key to success. But as your team hashes out everything from product plans to company strategies, the security of that information deserves just as much emphasis. According to a recent Forrester trends report, 22% of enterprise security decision-makers identified improving data security as a priority for the coming year. However, executing those security measures is a different challenge.

5 essential Scrum events for effective Agile product management

Agile product management is a cyclical framework that relies heavily on close collaboration and communication between team members. To accomplish this, product teams use structured Scrum events — formerly known as Scrum ceremonies — at regular intervals throughout a Sprint to set the requirements for the upcoming work cycle, align on progress, share results, and plan for the next iteration. Scrum events are the backbone of a successful Agile team.

Acclaimed product leader David Pereira shares his innovation playbook

How can product teams cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters? David Pereira, a seasoned product leader, coach, and Miroverse Ambassador, has spent over 15 years exploring that question. With extensive experience across industries, he helps teams streamline their processes and create real value.

IDC MarketScape names Miro a Leader in Team Collaboration Applications

We are thrilled to announce that Miro has been named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Team Collaboration Applications 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc, November 2024). The IDC MarketScape is the premier vendor assessment tool in the information and communication technology industry.

How I do it in Miro: creating flowcharts to communicate with a team

Effective communication for any team is crucial, but especially in software engineering, where collaboration across multiple stakeholders is essential to progress in any project. As part of the How I Do It In Miro series, Anubha, software engineer at Miro, shows us how she overcomes this challenge with Miro.

Scrum Masters: A critical role for Scrum teams

When it comes to driving success on Agile teams, one position is crucial: the Scrum Master. This servant leader acts as a facilitator, a coach, and a champion of the Agile process. Their influence can transform disparate groups of skilled individuals into a cohesive, high-performing team that’s capable of delivering industry-changing products for their company. Below, we’ll explore the role of Scrum Master, their responsibilities, and key challenges you may face if you step into that role.

How artificial intelligence is driving human innovation

Raconteur originally published this article online and in print on October 17, 2024. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, visionary leaders are reframing the narrative. The question is no longer whether AI can outperform humans in certain tasks, but how it can be harnessed to elevate human potential and drive innovation. What does generative AI (GenAI) excel at? And what tasks are best left to humans?