Inspiration and connection

TOTW (May 2, 2022) — Team Development Roadmap

This week, Team Development Roadmap by @Daria Rudnik is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It helps teams to get some insights on their 1-year vision and what the team needs to do in order to get there. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Daria a compliment here, her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite templates for Learning and Development in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Colleen CurtisActive Contributor

3 science-backed ways to help you run better meetings

Our very own @Shipra Kayan is featured in this great article today in Fast Company. Shipra explains the simple principles that successful facilitators apply to make meetings more engaging for everyone. Full article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90746457/3-science-backed-ways-to-help-you-run-better-meetings Any questions for Shipra after reading this article? I have a hot tip that she loves the Miro Community and will be happy to answer any questions or join the conversation here with you all.

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (April 26, 2022) — Lean Inception Workshop

This week, Lean Inception Workshop by Paulo Caroli is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It offers a comprehensive series of activities, typically scheduled over the course of a week that helps teams understand, align, and plan the building of the MVP – Minimum Viable Product – and the product increments. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Paulo a compliment here, his template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite Lean templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Creator Spotlight: Nhi Tran on the best ways to create beautiful and engaging retro boards

Hi Miro Heroes Anna here, your Community Manager. This April, it’s all about Agile! We want to celebrate all the individuals, teams, and companies that prioritize their customers and are learning how to respond to change. I’m super excited to share our conversation with @Nhi Tran, a Scrum Master based in Stockholm, Sweden. Nhi is a prominent Miroverse Creator and longtime Miro Community Member who authored many popular templates including Retrospective - Chinese New Year, Mood Check In, and Retrospective - Stress and Recharge. We sat down with Nhi to talk about her passion for helping teams do their best work and get some tips & tricks for aspiring Miroverse Creators, and I’m excited to share her wisdom with the Miro Community. Nhi’s Miroverse pro tip: Use Miro IconFinder to make your board look beautiful and add more intricate details to your frames. When Nhi starts building any template, she always looks for relevant icons first and then plays with other elements on the board l

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Samuel PantcheffNew Here

“UX? Oh, that’s great but what is it…?” - A short article about my experiences in UX so far.

Check out my latest article on UX Design and my experience starting out learning the industry! https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/ux-oh-thats-great-but-what-is-it-cc3a28d70007 Always happy to connect with fellow UXers, so please get in touch - www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-pantcheff-848354230

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Let's celebrate April's Most Active Miroverse Creators!

Hey Miro Heroes! Before the end of April, I wanted to start a new tradition — let’s celebrate our most active Miroverse Creators of the month! To support them, their templates on Miroverse and leave your compliment in this thread. The first place goes to @Marcel Britsch, Product Consultant at Beautiful Abstraction who submitted four super insightful templates in April! Check out his work here: Lean Inception Template that enables teams to easily design and plan an inception by following / adapting a proven sequence of industry standard; Decision Framework that forms the basis for decision making and sets up the process that kicks off discussion around decisions’ relevance and priority; Report Template helps create reports for lessons learned, discoveries and inceptions, or any other sort of workshop or research activity; Value Chain Map enable you to build a strategic decision-making tool that identifies and maps the elements of an organization’s value chain against industry maturi

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (April 18, 2022) — Game Board for virtual events

This week, Game Board by Nadja Krendel is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It is a collection of 18 games that were designed for remote company / project / team events, allowing lots of participants play together. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Nadja a compliment here, her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite Miro game templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Said SaddoukGroup Leader

Miro-Games / Game-Templates: Scrabble Edition

I started by creating some scrabble-like tiles as requested by @Thene Sheehy, but I couldn’t stop … So it turned out to become a whole scrabble game, that can be played on a miro board. It is not available at miroverse yet, as it still needs some minor adjustments and I want to test it with a few people in a live-game first. But it works out very well for a miro-game You can find a demo-video of the game here in my linkedin feed Have fun

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Welcome to Agile April: Insightful events, Template Challenge, and more!

Hi Miro Heroes We’re introducing big themes for each month to highlight different use cases and groups within our Community! This April, it’s all about Agile! We want to celebrate all the individuals, teams, and companies that prioritize their customers and are learning how to respond to change. Whether you are just starting to learn about Agile methodology or are an experienced Agile coach and practitioner, we invite you to participate to learn, grow and drive change together! How to get involved: Discover Miroverse templates for Agile Workflows and submit your own board to our library. We are super excited to see your favorite rituals and learn how your team stays agile! And stay tuned for a dedicated Agile April Miroverse Template Challenge! Join our Lean-Agile Evangelists community group led by @Henrik Ståhl to meet your peers, learn, share your insights, and share your learnings and perspectives! Do you have a unique point of view and several Miroverse templates under your

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Creator Spotlight: Software Engineer and author Clyde D’Souza on the power of passion projects

Hi Miro Heroes Anna here, your Community Manager. This April, it’s all about Agile! We want to celebrate all the individuals, teams, and companies that prioritize their customers and are learning how to respond to change. I’m super excited to share our conversation with @Clyde D'Souza, a Software Engineer and Author based in Auckland, New Zealand. In his spare time, Clyde blogs on Medium, teaches online on Skillshare and Udemy, publishes videos on YouTube, and created templates for Miroverse. He authored many fun templates for those who are interested in Agile and Lean methodologies as well as those who are into creative writing. We sat down with Clyde to talk about his passion projects and get some tips & tricks for aspiring Miroverse Creators, and I’m excited to share his wisdom with the Miro Community. Top Miroverse tips&tricks: Before you start creating your first template, try creating different objects, use different features from the toolbar, and experiment with apps

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Stijn VerstraeteNew Here

use Miro for pre-meeting or after-meeting feedback

Hallo, I am new to the community, setting up a new workshop for a group of people.Before starting the meeting, I would love to ask a few questions to the participants:Filling out a small questionnaire (where they can select how they feel on a scale). Adding a few topics to the meeting, by adding post-its.They can see everything from each other. But I only want them to vote and to add post-its. Nothing else. (ideally, not changing their peers’ input)Not during the meeting, but they can do that 2 weeks in advance? Do you have any ideas how to go about this? greetings,Stijn

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Common pitfalls of first-time Miroverse Creators

Hello Miro Heroes As some of you may know, me and @Helena Brandist are reviewing all the templates our Miro Creators are submitting to Miroverse. We noticed a number of common pitfalls of first-time Miroverse Creators so we decided to add a couple of updates to our guidelines: When creating Miroverse profile, please add your photo, bio, current role, and links to your social accounts/your website; A high-quality cover image for your template has to showcase part of an example template that you like most and that best represents your template (no branded promotional images); Your template and its description has to be written in English; If submitting an educational template, please provide examples to indicate proper use. (Here are some examples: Alex Ivanov's Team Canvas or Julia Cowing's Customer Question). For a full list of requirements, check our official Miroverse checklist. A question for experienced Creators: I’m curious to know what are some other recommendations you hav

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Alejandro De BlasiGroup Leader

La retrospectiva del Velero (Plantilla de Miroverse)

Una de las plantillas más utilizadas del #Miroverse es la del Velero "Sailboat Retrospective" ideal para trabajar en conjunto con tu equipo en sesiones de retrospectiva. 🏝 La Isla representa el Objetivo del Sprint.💨 El viento representa todo lo que nos ha ayudado a alcanzar el objetivo.☀️ El sol es todo lo que nos hace sentir bien mientras realizamos nuestro trabajo.⚓️ El ancla se refiere a todo lo que nos detiene, los impedimentos que nos retrasan.🪨 El arrecife representa todos los riesgos potenciales que a futuro podrían alejarnos del objetivo. Los invito a probar esta plantilla en la próxima sesión de retrospectiva que tengan con su equipo.https://miro.com/miroverse/sailboat-retrospective/

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (April 12, 2022) — Piggybank Scrum Simulation

This week, Piggybank Scrum Simulation by @Ellen Hermens is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It allows people who are new to agility to understand the different roles, artifacts and events within Scrum plus the inherent Kaizen structure. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Helen a compliment here, her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite Scrum templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Said SaddoukGroup Leader

Game-Template: Easter Egg Hunt

Hey folks,I just submitted my latest game template to miroverse: Easter Egg Hunt https://miro.com/miroverse/easter-egg-hunt-by-said-saddouk/ Find the 15 special Easter eggs that are hidden in the middle of the #miroArt which consists of 3000 easter eggs. Mark each of them with a comment. Please make sure that all content on the board is locked and cannot be moved. Whoever finds more Easter eggs before the timer runs out wins. Whoever finds all easter eggs in the shortest time wins. If you don't have teammates, you can also use it to test your own Miro skills :) If you tried it out, would be cool if you share how long it took you to find all easter eggs 🐰 Rgrds Said

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Nidhi SachdevaNew Here

Business Processes in Miro

Hi All,I am new to Miro and would like to use it for Business Process Mapping. The process I am working on is quite complex and involves many teams/stakeholders, which in turn are sub-processes. Any suggestions on how to put everything on one board or use separate boards?Thanks

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (April 5, 2022) — Marvellous Retrospective

This week, Marvellous Retrospective by @Steven Sampson-Jones is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It allows teams to gamify a traditional Agile retrospective by adding Marvel characters to the mix. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Steven a compliment here, his template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite retro templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (March 29, 2022) — Team Onion Workshop for breaking down silos

This week, Team Onion Workshop by @Emily Webber is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It helps keep teams small, break down silos and create shared responsibility across team boundaries. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Emily a compliment here, her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite team building templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Michelle MurphyGroup Leader

Happy Monday crew! Thank you to all who could attend Friday’s session. It was wonderful to get to know you all a little better! Something that came up on Friday was discussing our favorite Icebreakers. We used this template (but with a World map view!) for our session but would love to hear your favorites below 👇 Also if you couldn’t attend Friday, we’d love to see where you are from and your classic picnic dish! Please drop in the link above. Have a great week!Michelle

All things Icebreakers!

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Creator Spotlight: Amy Hartman on what teams can learn from TV writers

Hi Miro Heroes Anna here, your Community Manager. This March, we are celebrating Women’s History Month by hosting a special edition Miroverse Challenge, Womxn at Work, and highlighting the most inspiring female creators that contributed templates to our template library. I’m super excited to share our conversation with Amy Hartman, Writers’ Assistant based in Los Angeles, California. Amy worked on many well-known TV shows such as Mr. Robot, Star Trek: Picard, and Motherland: Fort Salem. She also created a super useful Miroverse template for screenwriters — Episode White Board for TV Writer's Rooms. We sat down with Amy to talk about her career path and get some tips & tricks for aspiring Miroverse Creators. TL;DR: How TV writers can use Miro for remote collaboration: We have one big whiteboard with episode numbers across the top, character names down the side, and then we add stickies outlining what each character's doing in every episode; being able to see the whole thing is r

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Barbara MonahanBeginner

Have a concentration music play button

When running workshops and users are spending time thinking, filling in boards, it would be great to have a concentration music play button to make it a nice experience for clients

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Said SaddoukGroup Leader

Best Miro-Apps for #Gamification in Miro

Which are your favorite Miro-apps from the market place when it comes to create games or gamification elements on a miro board? My favorite is the “Dice” app. Very usefull for every activity that needs a dice or some random numbers.https://miro.com/marketplace/dice/ Select between 1 and 5 existing widgets on a Miro board and click on the dice symbol in your toolbar. On every selected widget a new sticker will appear showing a randomly generated number from 1 to 6.Key Features:Select multiple widgets simultaneously. The dice stickers will not disappear and can be deleted when they are no longer needed. Also the “Totally Random” App is very helpful.https://miro.com/marketplace/totally-random/ The app comes with four starter tools that run simple randomization functions:Pick 1 item at random. Pick a number between a min and max. Divide a group of items into X number of even random groups. Shuffle a group items’ positions randomly. Key Features:Pick 1 item at random: Select several widget

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

Miro for Content Marketers

Hey everyone! I’m a Content Marketer myself, and I managed MiroBlog for a while in the past, so I really liked using Miro for planning an brainstorming I recently published a template for Content Marketers in Miroverse, and I am also loving a couple of custom boards our Community members created: Content Strategy by Adrian Radev Content Modeling by Nikoo Yahyazadeh Content User Journey by @Ana Bender So my question is how do you use Miro as Content Marketer? Super curious to see more examples and methodologies

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Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member

TOTW (March 22, 2022) — Service Definition Canvas

This week, Service Definition Canvas by @Isabell Fringer is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). It helps designers and businesses capture and structure the most relevant customer-facing service information by providing a structured template and useful tips. Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Isabell a compliment here, her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite service design templates in this thread! Voting makes template discovery easier for other members of Miro Community and supports those who are contributing to Miroverse in such a meaningful way. How do we choose TOTW? It’s a mystery! But upvoting helps!

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Henrik StåhlMiro Hero

The 3 kinds of Product Managers/Product Owners

Hello dear Lean-Agilists!This story by Susan Stavitzski on Medium is one I often use to spark discussion among PMs and POs:https://medium.com/@susan_ski/the-three-kinds-of-product-managers-9aa398dbabd8“I like to think there’s three types of Product Managers: The technical PM, the customer centric PM and the business focused PM. You’re going to be one really well, maybe even two but never all three. If you feel like you fit strongly in one or two of those buckets, I say you go for it.”I think this holds true even for people who aren't PMs or POs (or project leaders/managers). A developer is often — and hopefully 😅 — strong on the technical side, and then they could also lean either towards UX or business. Same with UX designers: strong on user experience and maybe also business or tech. Agile coaches are often rooted in either tech (former engineers) or user experience (former UX designers).As a PM/PO, I consider myself fitting strongly in the Technical and Customer buckets but less so

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