Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Ash Maurya is the acclaimed author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean. In 2009, a significant realization about the importance of developing products to meet real needs led him to the Lean Startup movement, which was pioneered by Eric Ries and Steve Blank. From there, Ash created several business modeling tools, including the Lean Canvas, Traction Roadmap, and Customer Forces Canvas. Today, his frameworks and methodologies are used by over a million people globally through his company, LEANSTACK.

April has delivered, bringing us over 190 incredible new templates. Below, we’ll shine a spotlight on the brilliant creators who’ve made this month one to remember. Let’s show them some love and support for their outstanding contributions to Miroverse in April! 💛

In the ever-evolving world of product planning, staying ahead of the curve is essential. This month, we want to share with you a series of updates designed to streamline your process and enhance collaboration. We’ve fine-tuned the Planner app, turbocharged Azure DevOps collaboration, and built some more features to boost your diagramming experience. These and other enhancements are poised to elevate your productivity to new heights.

Even if you’re not an engineer, if you work in tech, chances are you’re familiar with retrospectives. Some might argue that retros are a waste of time, emphasize the negatives, or can suffer from a recency bias. Despite these challenges, retros are an important part of development work. They help teams learn from past mistakes, celebrate the successes, and — when practiced long-term — can capture trends and patterns that foster more comprehensive insights.

A healthcare tech team has an exciting new idea. They see an opportunity to integrate new app features that support patient care beyond telemedicine appointments, like how-to videos for home exercise programs prescribed by physical therapists and detailed dietary guidelines from nutritionists. So they send out user surveys and develop a beta version for early adopters, who enjoy the new additions. But when they roll out the final version, it’s a flop. What happened?

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “Agile?” It’d be no surprise if your mind goes straight to software engineering, given Agile’s origins as a self organized way of working for developers in the early 2000s. But in recent years, its methodologies have become ubiquitous as a highly efficient way for all teams to work, with its frameworks used everywhere from marketing to HR, in military operations, and beyond.

Previously we launched a new “How I do it in Miro” video series hosted both by regular users and our very own Mironeers. These videos are designed to help you learn — fast — how you can use Miro for your specific job. The first video featured Miro UX researcher Deniz Kartepe, who demonstrated how he uses Miro to run a research project end to end. You can read about it here.

In 1952, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald closed their BBQ restaurant for three months to focus on one small aspect of their business: hamburgers. Like many other restaurants at that time, their processes were slow and inefficient. They cooked menu items to order, used non-disposable dishes, and delivered meals via carhops. To cut costs and serve hamburgers faster, the brothers took their crew out to a tennis court.

Diana Larsen is an international authority in Agile software development, leadership, and transformations. She’s also the co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams, and The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning. Her most recent book, Lead Without Blame, is particularly relevant now, as it addresses the crucial need for enterprises to build resilient teams in today’s increasingly competitive and challenging landscape.

Developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have had a huge impact on content creation, innovation, and collaboration. Everything from creating text, images, and videos, to sorting unstructured information, and generating or analyzing software code are easy to accomplish with the help of GenAI. But what can GenAI do when it comes to security?