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How Prudential Accelerates Agile Processes and Builds Trust 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 to create a cross-functional team in 4 simple steps

A cross-functional team is a permanent or temporary group of people with different types of experience working together to achieve a common goal. Cross-functional teams benefit companies because when team members with multiple skill sets work together, they can pursue company goals more efficiently. In this piece, we’ll explain what a cross-functional team is and provide tips for how to build one.

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.

Marketing Your Game and Making Money: Choosing the Right Methods - and Keeping Your Team Working Smoothly Together

Launching a game into a jam-packed market and planning to make a profit requires more than just an original idea and slick gameplay to back it up. So much of success in this sphere boils down to picking the right marketing strategies that resonate with your target audience, as well as monetizing your pride and joy in an appropriate way. There’s also the fact that your team are the gears behind the scenes, and they need to mesh perfectly to drive your project forward properly at all points.

Improved Usability: Wire's Desktop & Web Updates

One thing that we can all agree on is that we should always work on improving ourselves. It’s in this spirit that we proudly bring to you an improved calling User Interface (UI) and a more convenient conversation view for Wire's desktop app (Windows, MacOS) and our app for your web browser. We made it easier to choose audio and visual outputs, view reactions, and conversation views. Less steps, less clicks; better communication! Let’s get into it.

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.