Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

August 2024

How to make a flowchart for programming: a guide for developers

Process and workflow visualization is a critical tool for software engineering, product, and design teams. It’s how they organize and structure their application design and code, troubleshoot problem areas in their systems, and share knowledge about the project and product with their teams.

Agile2024 template roundup: 10 exclusive templates from the experts

This summer, Agile2024 brought together practitioners from across sectors to explore and advance Agile practices and tools. At Miro, we were blown away by the speakers, ideas, energy, and the Agile community as a whole. This year, we encouraged presenters to create a template in the Miroverse as a takeaway from their speaking sessions. The results gave everyone — including those who couldn’t make the conference — something to implement at home.

What's New: What we launched in August 2024

In our fast-paced work environment, finding ways to streamline processes and enhance collaboration is essential. That’s why we’ve been focusing on product and service innovations that make your experience with Miro even better. From action shortcuts in the Estimations app to Intelligent Templates for planning sessions, these updates help you and your team work smarter, not harder.

The power of marketing diagrams: examples and best practices

Communicating efficiently and securing buy-in for new projects and strategies are critical for marketers — and visuals like marketing diagrams are an invaluable tool in this process, as they make complex marketing concepts easier to understand and help marketers quickly share the results of their work. How much more quickly? These visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text.

How Miro's innovation workspace accelerates AWS cloud transformation

Join the AWS Well-Architected team and Miro, creators of the leading innovation workspace for AWS cloud architects, on September 10th for our webinar: “Accelerate Your AWS Well-Architected Reviews and Mitigate Risks with Miro” See how you can run more collaborative architecture reviews and drive project efficiency. Register now!

The importance of native data security

Whether it’s customer data, new product ideas, or financial stats, your team’s collaborative spaces contain a lot of information. This is useful for exchanging insights and sharing knowledge with your colleagues — but it can also pose a major threat if it gets into the wrong hands. According to a recent survey, cyber events (like data leaks and breaches) are the top concern among organizations worldwide, outranking business interruptions and natural catastrophes.

Unleash Team Potential with the People List Widget

Boost your team collaboration with the People List Widget, the perfect tool for displaying and interacting with your board collaborators’ avatars! In this video, discover how to add the widget to your board, pin frequent collaborators, and easily drag avatars for tasks like creating breakout spaces or assigning speakers. See how avatars seamlessly attach to sticky notes or cards, moving fluidly across the board with them. This dynamic feature enhances teamwork and organization in any project.

Interactive Polling with Miro: Engage Your Audience Instantly

Transform your workshops, team events, and presentations with the interactive Polling Widget! In this video, learn how to embed polls directly onto your Miro boards, craft engaging questions, and add response options effortlessly. See how to activate your poll, collect real-time answers from participants, and share the final results for dynamic and engaging discussions. Perfect for creating memorable moments and gathering instant feedback, this feature is a must-have for any collaborative session.

The Intelligent Canvas Guide to Agile

With the freedom to play, ideate and create, Miro empowers Agile teams to go from idea to structured work more efficiently than ever before. Whether you want a way to connect your distributed team, a faster, more efficient way to brainstorm or need an innovative space to collaborate with stakeholders, Miro is there for you and your team to experiment and get work done, together.

Revolutionize Team Decisions with Dot Voting on Miro

Discover the power of the Dot Voting Widget and streamline your decision-making process! In this video, learn how to effortlessly gather feedback and prioritize tasks using Miro’s Dot Voting Widget. We'll guide you through adding the widget to your board, setting up engaging voting sessions, and letting participants cast their votes by dragging dots onto objects. Watch as votes automatically attach to their respective objects, making it easy to cluster themes or organize cards into timelines while keeping track of votes.

Report: How workers really feel about meetings

Meetings inspire strong opinions — and they remain divisive even as information workers navigate new ways of working, from the shift to hybrid models to embracing AI. Despite the rise in asynchronous work and new stats indicating that time in meetings is declining, organizations continue to struggle with burnout, disengagement, and feeling spread too thin. Are meetings to blame?

Level up your org charts with Miro: Types, tips, and templates

Can your org chart fit on an 8.5-by-11-inch piece of paper? Chances are, it can’t. Yet, many companies still try to create their org charts in Word or Powerpoint. If your organization is more dynamic than static, it’s time to level up. An org chart is a map of relationships. At a basic level, it illustrates who is responsible for what and whom. There are many types of org charts to choose from, depending on your company size, structure, and preferences.

Mastering the Miro Story Points Widget

Unlock the power of the Story Points Widget and transform your team’s estimation process! In this video, discover how easy it is to add the Story Points Widget to your board, enabling your team to select, drag, and attach story points to sticky notes or cards effortlessly. See how story points integrate seamlessly with Miro and Jira cards, keeping your records up-to-date and your team aligned. Perfect for visual and collaborative estimations, this feature is a game-changer for your workflow.

How I do it in Miro: PI Planning with Becky Juda at CleanChoice Energy

PI planning is an essential element of the road to success for many organizations. Taking part in or conducting PI planning sessions provides an opportunity for business stakeholders, project owners and teams to review their program backlog, identify priorities and analyze and determine their goals. As part of PI planning, it’s important to get the team together in an engaging and collaborative way.

How to use visual diagramming to unlock better SDLC collaboration

Today, software development teams are facing increasing pressure to deliver more, faster—even in the face of increasing technical complexity. In fact, two of the biggest challenges reported in a recent survey of software developers were an inability to keep pace with innovations in developer tools (27.7%) and a struggle to manage workloads (26.2%). The software development life cycle is complex, and blends both people and product management and technical work.

How I Run PI Planning in Miro - Becky Juda

Join Becky Juda, Senior Agile Delivery Manager at CleanChoice Energy, as she shares how Miro transforms their quarterly PI planning. Discover how they use their PI planning template in Miro to help stay organized, reduce their carbon footprint, and improve team collaboration. If you like Becky’s board, head over to Miroverse to try it out with instructions on how to use it from Beky.