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Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Clyde D'Souza
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Stijn VerstraeteNew Here
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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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Annie
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Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Helena Brandist
Mironeer
2 years ago
Alejandro De Blasi
Alejandro De BlasiGroup Leader
posted in Inspiration and connection
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 Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
published in Inspiration and connection
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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Anna Savina
2 years ago
Said Saddouk
Said SaddoukGroup Leader
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Alexis Luscutoff
2 years ago
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Nidhi SachdevaNew Here
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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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Kiron Bondale
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
published in Inspiration and connection
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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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
published in Inspiration and connection
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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Anna Savina
2 years ago
Michelle Murphy
Michelle MurphyGroup Leader
posted in Inspiration and connection
All things Icebreakers!

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

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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
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Barbara MonahanBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection
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 Saddouk
Said SaddoukGroup Leader
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
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 Savina
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
published in Inspiration and connection
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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Marina
Mironeer
2 years ago
Henrik Ståhl
Henrik StåhlMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection
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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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
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Edwin van der GeestBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection
Beautiful backgrounds

Hi all, I’m looking for inspiration to spice up our Miro experiences. And I saw a couple of beautiful backgrounds coming by on LinkedIn, such as the ones below. Do you have any tips on where to get those awesome backgrounds? Thanks! 

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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Robert Johnson
Robert JohnsonVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection
Sharing a board with any Miro user (BONUS: Boards vs. Custom Templates)

After replying to multiple posts with details on how to share a board with any other Miro user, and then sharing a link to one of those replies, the time as come to write my own post on the topic. Sharing a board with any Miro userWhile paid/Education Plan team members are able to share a board by downloading the board as a .rtb file, Free Plan users are unable to upload .rtb files, so that solution will not work for everyone.The easiest way for almost* anyone registered Miro user to share a copy of a Miro board with another registered user is by sending them a link to the board and having them duplicate the board into their account.*There are a few caveats:If you are on the Enterprise Plan, the Sharing Policy must be configured to allow for public board sharing - you’ll know right away if it’s not if if you don’t have the Anyone with the link option. This method uses the Board Content Settings feature, which is only available to the board owner, and may need to be enabled for non-team

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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Robert Johnson
Robert JohnsonVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection
Reveal content just-in-time using shapes

I wanted to share a simple, yet effective technique for hiding content on a Miro board that I first saw used by Greg Kozera during his Virtual Miro User Group presentation: V-MUG03: How to add gamification to your facilitation with Miro.Throughout his presentation, Greg kept his talking points hidden under rectangles that were the same colour as their surrounding, and only revealed the content as he was ready to talk about it. After a while, I found myself curious and excited to see what was coming next!Not only I have started doing this when presenting my own content, but I also started using this approach to hide some objects on the board that I will use at some point, e.g., additional images or icons, but didn’t want them to make my board look “messy”.Here is an example in action: Tip: The default board/frame HEX colour is #F2F2F2 - add this to your colour swatch Related linksAbout Greg’s presentation → https://go.miro.com/gamification-with-miro Watch it here → https://youtu.be/AujO

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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Miroverse Spotlight: Regine @ Transformational Learning

Hi Miro Heroes  Anna here, your Community Manager. This March, we are celebrating Women’s History Month by hosting a special edition of the 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 @Regine, a Certified Professional in Talent & Development (CPTD). Regine is a prominent Miroverse Creator and longtime Miro Community Member who authored two useful templates — Virtual Winter Wonderland Village and Niching Down: Online Course Persona Empathy Map. It won Miro users over because of great design and potential to engage teams. We sat down with Regine to talk about her career path and get some tips & tricks for aspiring Miroverse Creators, and I’m excited to share her wisdom with the Miro Community.  TL;DR: Best advice for women going through a career transition: identify your North Star and chart out a path made up of manageable stepping sto

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Anna Savina
2 years ago
Alexis Luscutoff
Alexis LuscutoffExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Do you sit weirdly when you work too?

  When you see me on a Zoom call, you’ll notice that I often put my hands on the arms of my chair and lift myself up for a moment, but you don’t see why. Below the video frame, I’m shifting my legs and adjusting my body so I sit cross-legged. Otherwise, I sit on my right foot while my left leg is bent, my left foot is flat on my seat, and my left knee isn’t far from my chin. That’s how I’m sitting now as I type this, with my left arm wrapped around my left knee to reach the keyboard. It sounds so bizarre as I write it out, but these two ways of sitting are the only ways that I can be comfortable while I work. Interestingly, sometimes these postures make me sit up straighter and lean forward so I look more energized on camera. In contrast, on the rare occasions that I sit with my feet flat on the floor, I look higher status because I take up more space in my chair, or I look uninterested and too cool for school because I lean backward and slouch like I’m in the front row at a movie thea

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Henrik Ståhl
2 years ago
Jair Halevi
Mironeer
Jair HaleviMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection
Miro is looking for an Marketing Associate for the Miro Startup Program!

Miro loves startups, and Startups love Miro. The Miro Startup Program is scaling rapidly. Therefore we are looking for a part-time, remote (max 20 hours) marketing associate (contractor). The Miro Startup Program aims to build and engage a thriving startup community at Miro, executing partnerships with VCs and accelerators and evangelising Miro in the startup Ecosystem.Miro wants to continue to invest in this strategic audience. You will have a critical role in keeping the Program running and improving our Program. You will be responsible for scaling the operations to serve over 10K startups.What tasks will you do?A part-time role for a max of 20 hours per week Nurture our Startup Community by creating and sending the startups newsletter to startups and startup partners Production of the Startup Community events: create an event page, send invitations, and follow up after the event.  Work together with the program manager around strategic partnerships and lead the operational side,

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Jair Halevi
Mironeer
2 years ago
Anna Savina
Anna SavinaExperienced Community Member
published in Inspiration and connection
TOTW (March 15, 2022) — Best Workshop and Meeting Energizers

This week, Workshop and Meeting Energizers by @Maira is the Template Of The Week (or TOTW). Whether you’re planning a meeting for a small team, or you are a teacher engaging 40 students online, these energizers will help you start your sessions or bring the group back together after a break.  Do you like this template as much as we do? Leave Maira a compliment here,   her template on Miroverse, and feel free to share your favorite workshop energizers 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 Curtis
2 years ago
Alexis Luscutoff
Alexis LuscutoffExperienced Community Member
posted in Inspiration and connection
Wait, can you make eye contact on video calls?

Ummm are you supposed to look at the person on the screen? Are you supposed to stare into the camera?…. During the body language event today, we talked about how important facial expressions are on video calls because we can’t see the body of the person across from us. Even hand gestures are a different thing on video, so the face does the talking - literally and figuratively. Plus, eye contact is important to show someone that you’re listening to them and you care about what they’re sharing. But how do you do it? I find that if someone consistently looks at one part of their screen, it’s clear to me that they’re focused on me and we’re connected. I do the same - but I tend to put my video on the left side of my screen and notes on the right, so my head is slightly turned to the left when I’m talking to someone on video. Also, I’ll say it - it’s so obvious when someone keeps looking at themselves on video…it’s brutal but we all do it! So, what do you think? How can you make eye contact

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Alexis Luscutoff
2 years ago
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Manouska JMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection
Miro Community: Here’s how YOU can get involved ✨

Hi Miro Community, ​We’ve assembled a list of Miro Community offerings where you can either participate and contribute yourself, or just attend, learn best practices and become even more successful with Miro.  🤝 Meet the Miro Community Introduce yourself. What a great way to start your community journey - meet your fellow Miro Heroes and network.Join community groups. This is where you can connect with people who share your interests and discuss what you love.Attend community events. Learn best practices, share ideas and make connections at our virtual events. Want to host an event for the Miro Community? Reach out to our Community Team at community@miro.com. 🎨 Unleash your creativity and get inspired Become Miroverse Creator. Miroverse showcases the tried and true workflows, projects, and frameworks of the Miro Community, as well as their creators.Take part in an official Miroverse Template Challenge. Share with the community how you Miro and win prizes! Don't forget to click Subscr

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Said Saddouk
2 years ago
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