Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

After working with a rare, high-performing product team, Dave Baines and Sam Quayle were inspired to bottle that experience and build the product development consultancy, Hyperact.

This month, we’re introducing powerful new integrations and updates designed to make your workflows smoother, your collaboration sharper, and your creativity limitless. From AI-powered mood boards to upgraded templates and doc enhancements, these updates help you work smarter, not harder. Want to take your Miro expertise even further?

Good observability helps you understand what’s happening, but our previous logs made it hard to see the full picture. Debugging often meant searching, filtering, and manually piecing together trends. Spotting a spike in failures or a drop in message volume shouldn’t take that much effort. The new logs histogram makes this easier. Instead of scanning rows of data, you get a real-time visual overview of message activity.

In the past week, you’ve probably reprioritized your tasks, rescheduled your calendar, and maybe even worked late to get something done. You’re not alone. According to recent research, 87% of knowledge workers are working two hours later every day compared to 2019. Yet over one-quarter of deadlines are missed each week. Every day, we juggle competing demands on our time and, as a result, experience more chaos than clarity. Luckily, there’s a solution: time blocking.

If we learned one thing in 2020 it’s that remote work is possible. The myths that virtual teams are less productive, it’s impossible to connect through just a screen, or that remote work reduces career growth have officially been busted. According to the 2020 state of remote work report, almost 70% of full-time workers in the U.S. worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rapid ascent of AI in internal communications has sparked both excitement and anxiety. Some professionals worry the bots will take over their jobs. Others dismiss AI as another overhyped technology. What’s the reality? As the adage goes, AI won’t replace people, but people who know how to use AI might replace those who don’t.

‍ Software development teams are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality applications faster than ever. According to the 2023 State of DevOps Report, organizations with high DevOps maturity deploy 208 times more frequently and recover from failures 2604 times faster. DevOps collaboration is the key to achieving this, as it breaks down the walls between development and operations to streamline workflows and speed up software delivery.

OKRs and KPIs are both methods of performance management, but they can help you reach your goals in different ways. OKRs are a goal-setting framework, while KPIs track goal performance. In this piece, we explain how to combine the benefits of these frameworks to improve business performance. OKRs and KPIs may look a bit like alphabet soup at first glance, but these acronyms are valuable ways to set and achieve goals.