Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

When you give something a name, you make it real in a new way. Knowledge workers are seeing this firsthand with asynchronous work (or “async”), which is when team members work on the same project or problem but at different times instead of synchronously. Suddenly, the term is everywhere — but asynchronous work is more than a buzzword. Not just a by-product of the shift to remote or hybrid, it’s about strategically making new ways of working work.

Sixty percent of product managers (PMs) say that they want to learn more about how to build a product strategy, according to a 2022 Product Management Festival report. This is not surprising since a PM can drive more impact in their organization by being a strategic thinker. In fact, research by the Management Research Group suggests that behaviors associated with strategic thinking skills are: Product strategy is like a story a PM tells themselves, their team, and their stakeholders.

The word “workshop” sparks visions of creativity, collaboration, and energy — people rolling up their sleeves to build something great together. In contrast, “presentation” has completely different connotations, triggering groans and eyerolls as people imagine tired slide decks and endless droning.

This month, we have been working on some big updates to help you present your ideas in an engaging way through our new Interactive Presentation Mode. We’ve also been working behind the scenes to bring you the next big thing: Miro AI — your new launchpad for creativity, collaboration, and productivity. To see all the newest features that will help make your day a little better in Miro, here is our roundup of releases from March.

Agile practices are a crucial part of agile teamwork – they’re when collaboration is in high-gear and the creative juices really flow. But with more and more agile teams doing remote or hybrid work, it can be challenging to replicate the magic that happens when you’re all gathered around a physical whiteboard with a box of shared bagels and sticky notes in tow.

As companies have adopted more remote and hybrid models, the ways we work continue to change. Research finds that up to one-third of meetings are unnecessary, which means companies are wasting millions of dollars as workers contend with ongoing screen fatigue and burnout. Like most things in life, humans need balance, and it’s becoming apparent that teams need to be more intentional about collaboration.

Back in November at Distributed ‘22, Miro’s annual virtual conference, we teased the beta of our new presentation mode to an excited (virtual) crowd. Now, we’re excited to release it to all our users! But what is Interactive Presentation Mode and how did we build it? Keep reading to learn more.

2023 continues to be a big year for Miro, with more on the way! We kicked off this year strong by launching Miro in four new languages—Spanish, German, French, and Japanese—making it easier for you to collaborate with your global teams. We’ve also doubled down on improving agile practices to support the 86% of product development teams that use agile in their day to day.

I’m hard-pressed to think of another period in my 20-plus-year career when future readiness was a higher, more urgent priority for enterprise leadership than it is today. A multitude of disruptive forces—ranging from experimenting with generative AI to prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs to implementing hybrid strategies—are coming to a head, and we can truly only speculate about what the world of work might look like a decade from now.

Miro is all about unlocking and harnessing peak creativity. That doesn’t just apply to what teams can create with Miro — but also how they use Miro in the first place. We’ve quickly learned that no two teams use Miro exactly the same way, and their most-loved features are as unique as the work they’re doing. To better understand which features teams are using again and again, we turned to members of our Enterprise Advocates program.