What is Miro

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By Bart Bongers - AgileWalls.com

Miro was known in the past as RealtimeBoard, an online collaborative whiteboard platform that unites teams together and allows smooth online brainstorming, it offers infinite zoomable canvas and web whiteboards that enable teams to keep everyone in touch by seeing the big picture alongside the details. As software, Miro can be used to write down notes, create designs and communicate through video calls or online chatting. It allows adding many types of content such as texts and images with visual templates to help to explain different ideas and communicate more efficiently.

Some of the best features that Miro offers:

  1. Sticky notes that can be imported from spreadsheets and images or even added manually.
  2. Many add-ons (app integrations) that improve the experience as a whole such as Jira, Sketch, and Slack.
  3. It’s compatible with all devices.
  4. It recognizes drawings.

Miro helps teams go beyond just brainstorming, as it has many features and tasks that ensure collaboration within the team such as workshopping, strategy mapping, Agile ceremonies, UX research, product development, customer discovery, and process visualization.

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“Miro’s infinitely zoomable canvas and web whiteboard enables you to work the way you want to. Unleash your creativity, plan projects from all angles, and create centralized hubs of information to keep everyone in the loop. See the big picture and the details.”

How to use Miro

If you don’t know your way around this platform, multiple resources can be reached easily to learn more about how to use Miro and benefit from all its features.

  1. YouTube tutorials: To get familiar with the platform and the different functions within it, many tutorial videos on YouTube explain a lot of features and help you get started.
  2. Miro templates: On Miro’s website there is a library for templates that help setting up your workshop, class, project, or session. It includes templates for different specialties such as marketing, ideation, and strategy, so you can always find something relevant to what you want to set up.
  3. Mito Support & Help Center: It offers many written guidelines to the frequently asked questions and situations that you may encounter and can be interesting for you to learn about.
  4. Miro Blog: As the name shows, it includes blog posts about different topics within Miro that can be very helpful to users and guide them in the platform.
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Why use an online Whiteboard

Miro states that four key trends make an online whiteboard relevant for online collaboration as follows:

  1. An influx of remote workers: Global Leadership Summit in 2014 had a survey states that more than a third of businesses plan to have half of their workforce working remotely by 2020, and with the recent developments of COVID-19, it becomes crucial to embrace working remotely.
  2. Customer centricity, design thinking & Agile: Leading-edge technologies are being adopted across all industries and not limited to technology teams, so whiteboarding is a vital part of the design-thinking process that also needs to be implemented online.
  3. Digital Transformation: According to Miro’s survey, two out of three participants are saying their sectors are characterized by rapid change, and new technology products are moving only forward to meet the future demands.
  4. Visual thinking: According to William Bradford, 65% of the population are visual learners. The way people receive and process information is crucial to increase the efficiency of teams in different organizations, that’s why Miro provides flexible whiteboards to enable teams to collaborate constructively.

How to integrate Miro and Obeya

As the main aspect of visual management, Obeya methodology (a Japanese word for “big room”) is a Lean concept that is used to structure work, strategize and plan projects within Obeya Rooms. Integrating Miro as a virtual whiteboard with Digital Obeya Rooms can help:

  1. Planning by improving communication and visualizing information in a structured way
  2. Improve performance by offering smooth communication within the team
  3. Accurate evaluation of results by tracking every step of a process visually
  4. Improve efficiency through helpful visuals and vital resources all in one place
  5. Improve collaboration in teams by offering a shared environment where all members can work together and share their thoughts in one place

Generally, integrating Miro and Obeya can lead to significant results through improving communication and collaboration, consequently better results in any project, it can offer a virtual space where everyone can be part of the same environment

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What is Mural

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Mural an online tool that’s used to enable teams to collaborate visually and innovatively by offering solutions to overcome their challenges. It enables team members to share their ideas visually and virtually which leads to more efficient communication and collaboration. It’s a collaborative space where teams can organize their ideas in different ways such as lists, flowcharts, frameworks, and drawings.

Here are some of the features that Mural offers:

  1. Sticky notes: Helps sharing ideas and feedback for further actions.
  2. Shapes & connectors: Help create diagrams to illustrate complicated workflows
  3. Icons: Helps search for icons to create a visual story
  4. Frameworks: Organizes content and ideas to provide structured insights
  5. Images & GIFs: You can use visuals to improve collaboration in a session
  6. Drawing: Increase creativity by using freehand sketching and writing

“Communicate visually using sticky notes, flowcharts and mapping, drawings, and so much more. Then keep collaborators productive and engaged with voting, timer, and celebration features.”

How to use Mural

Mural is a place where you can map all kinds of content, like a giant canvas that can be customized however you desire, as it has many features, learning how to benefit from all of these features is crucial. Multiple resources give guidelines and information on how to use Mural as follows:

  1. YouTube tutorial videos: It’s a collection of videos that help users to get started with the tool, these tutorials give insights from the basics of using the software to how you can design your thinking sessions or workshops on the platform.
  2. Templates: Mural’s website has a library consists of 100+ templates to help you start your next collaboration session.
  3. Facilitating in Mural: If you’re interested in a specific topic or finding a particular piece of information about Mural, Facilitating in Mural is the place to go, as it offers a variety of resources to help users.
  4. Mural webinars: As an external source that provides support on how to use Mural, UniversityWebinars.org has numerous tutorial videos and webinars that give the latest insights about the tool, as it’s constantly updated.
  5. IBM guide: Another external source of information about the tool is IBM, as it has a resource that offers helpful hints and tips about implementing the tool during virtual meetings, workshops, or sessions.
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Why use Mural

Mural is a digital workspace intended for visual collaboration in teams, it provides a space to simplify complex challenges visually, and organize different processes on any device. Besides its many distinctive features explained above, Mural has a lot more to offer:

  1. Solving problems: The tool offers the possibility to collaborate visually within teams, so the speed and the ease of use of the tool make it effective in solving crucial problems.
  2. Visualizing ideas: By simply creating notes, flowcharts, diagrams, frameworks, and drawings to visualize the information and making it easy to grasp.
  3. More control: Through a wide set of tools within Mural, you can have full control over the meeting, workshop, or session.
  4. Spend less time: By choosing the right template and modify on it according to your needs would save a lot of time creating it from scratch.
  5. Always on schedule: You can set timers during your session in Mural to always stay on schedule.
  6. Content always saved: All the content that you create in Mural is automatically saved when it’s created.

How to integrate Mural and Obeya

Obeya (as part of Lean) offers a space to brainstorm ideas, plan, and structure work. If Digital Obeya Rooms are integrated with the tools that Mural offers, significant results can be achieved, as both sides have a lot to present which contributes to the progress of a project or an organization. Obeya helps identify problems and adjust the plan accordingly, with the right set of tools that Mural offers this process can be done more effectively. Here are some of the main accomplishments for integrating Mural and Obeya:

  1. Deliver value: Through displaying the activities that are planned to uncover the value in the clearest way possible.
  2. Drive performance: It happens when all team members are on the same page in terms of understanding different processes.
  3. Solve problems: Through Obeya’s structured problem-solving method, and the set of tools that Mural offers, problem-solving can be achieved effectively.

Both sides have a lot to offer, and if integrated within a project or an organization, they can drive significant results.

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