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Kira
KiraLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Check out the newest templates in Lucid 👀

Here at Lucid, we are constantly creating new templates to make you successful in our products! Keep an eye out for the latest and greatest template releases by subscribing to this topic thread 🎉

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hedinn
6 hours ago
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khaleesioflucidchartLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Totaling Story Points in a Frame/Container in Lucidspark!

Check out this following video for some tips on how to total up the Story Points (“Estimate” on generic Lucid cards) in a frame or container.https://play.goconsensus.com/b9ff55c61   Note: you can customize what it shown to work with Jira or AzureDevOps, by adjusting the formula.

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bketterl
1 day ago
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khaleesioflucidchartLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Creating a Dynamic Status Tracker for cards in Lucid

How to build a cool dynamic tracker for your cards! This works for Jira, “standard” Lucid cards, etc. thanks to the smart semantic field mapping of formulas in Lucid. Lucid formulas can detect the status etc. of cards, and formulas can add it all up! See video:https://play.goconsensus.com/a9825dfd9    

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Micah
2 days ago
Andries J
Andries J
asked in Inspiration

How to map disaster risk management value chain with Lucidchart

Hi there. I love what Lucidchart offers. I can see the potential but starting a new project is not that simple. For example what would a disaster risk management value chain look like when one needs to show linkages to bottlenecks stressors stakeholders and outcomes? Maybe somebody can help

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Micah
2 days ago
Addie
AddieLucid community team
posted in Inspiration

Project Managers: Build A Data-Driven Dashboard With Dynamic Shapes

Everyone knows big data is here to stay. As more and more data becomes easily available both the prevalence and importance of data-driven business solutions will increase. However InformationWeek Business Intelligence found that one of the primary barriers businesses face when they try to leverage data is a lack of visualization tools. Lucidchart believes there is no point to data for data’s sake. Instead Lucidchart aims to provide a simple way for anyone to visualize spreadsheet data with the new dynamic shape library. Dynamic shapes allow you to add static values or use formulas to calculate and display statistics such as total progress percentages and ratings directly on Lucidchart documents.   Specifically dynamic shapes can help you with data-driven project management. For example let’s say you need to plan an event for your company. From creating a budget picking a location and planning logistics to solidifying a promotional strategy and inviting guests there can be a seemin

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Micah
5 days ago
Whittney C
Whittney CLucidite
posted in Inspiration

How to use Smart Containers for Marketing Campaigns

The possibilities with Smart Containers are endless! While the inherent flexibility of Smart Containers makes it possible for you to customize how to use them it also makes it more difficult to grasp the full potential of the feature. When the sky's the limit where do you begin? First build a spreadsheet for your marketing campaign. Often organizing a marketing campaign means breaking down large projects into smaller tasks and then delegating these tasks to sub-teams or individual team members. These smaller tasks usually end up in a spreadsheet which looks something like this: These large spreadsheets often act as the center for information but it is often tedious to find information quickly and difficult to rearrange the spreadsheet’s format. Smart Containers go further and provide the tools to visualize and organize data. Lucidchart lets you import existing spreadsheets. Next separate your information into Smart Containers. To determine how your data is organized you’re asked to cho

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Micah
5 days ago
Addie
AddieLucid community team
posted in Inspiration

Create A Product Roadmap With Linked Data

Whether you’re in a basement brainstorming your best startup ideas or finishing up your fifth round of funding Lucidchart’s data linking functionality empowers you to create data driven product roadmaps. Product roadmaps are a great way to communicate your organization’s priorities to different teams and even investors. However creating a product roadmap typically requires substantial organization as you need to think through the strategic steps required to accomplish these goals. On top of that there are usually various stakeholders and teams that work cross-functionally to make gradual improvements to the product over time. This makes the creation of a product roadmap difficult because teams might have conflicting priorities and timelines to consider. With Lucidchart you can visualize the many variables that go into the creation of a comprehensive product roadmap.   Rather than writing vague statements about your organization’s vision you can import data directly into Lucidchar

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Micah
5 days ago
K
khaleesioflucidchartLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Toggle Conditional Formatting - From Diagram Key!

Hi! I’m one of the Sr. SE’s at Lucid and I wanted to share a fun tip on how to use shape actions and your diagram key to allow anyone looking at your document to turn on and off the conditional formatting. Check it out!! https://play.goconsensus.com/sde44490a

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Abby S
5 days ago
Leo Barnes
Lucid Legend Level 1
Leo BarnesLucid Legend Level 1
posted in Inspiration

Plan your talk with LucidSpark

I recently gave a talk at a local event here in the UK. The event is for everyone although has a UX angle in its approach and themes.  I speak at it every year and love it but always have struggled to plan out what I was going to say. However, in the last couple of years I’ve used a LucidSpark board to get my ideas down and then organise them afterwards and this works great.I can now have all my ideas, plus references and links together and can easily reorder them before transferring them into PowerPoint / Keynote slides. Give it a go!  

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rafaalb07
Lucid Legend Level 1
5 days ago
Audrey V
Audrey VLucidite
posted in Inspiration

How Lucid uses Lucid for better project kick-offs

Before Lucid, we tried using Word docs or spreadsheets to share project information, but these tools didn’t allow us to easily raise concerns, ask questions, and get on the same page.Lucid has completely transformed our kick-off process! Here’s what we do: 1. Create and share a project brief.First, we create a project brief in Lucid, documenting information like project requirements and goals. We also add links and images so stakeholders can easily visualize relevant examples.  We then share the brief with all project team members so they can leave input asynchronously. We make sure everyone has had a chance to review the briefs before our live kick-off meeting so we can jump right into productive, meaningful discussion. Create your own project brief with this template!3. Brainstorm.Next, the team brainstorms different ways to achieve the project goal, using a variety of facilitation tools, including:A timer to keep the session on track. A laser pointer to focus attention on key points

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rafaalb07
Lucid Legend Level 1
5 days ago
Micala R
Micala RLucidite
posted in Inspiration

5 Lucidspark features you may not be using

Inspired by feedback from a survey distributed to Lucid Champions, an exclusive, customer-centric program for Lucid’s most dedicated users, we rounded up 5 Lucidspark features you may not be using—but should be!TasksAssign a collaborator to a task to notify them of something that needs their attention. Tasks are great when you need approval, have a follow-up question, need to double-check work, and more!  GatherThe Gather tool can be used for brainstorming. It allows you to easily gather sticky notes into groups based on these categories: emoji reactions, reactions by collaborator, keywords, colors, tags, votes, and votes by collaborator. You can even gather using multiple categories!  Quick CleanupQuick Cleanup is another way to organize your sticky notes after an ideation session. Use Quick Cleanup to align sticky notes so that they’re not all over the canvas. Magic ShapeWith Magic Shape, you don’t have to spend time trying to draw the perfect shape yourself freehand. Simply draw a r

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Micala R
8 days ago
Micala R
Micala RLucidite
published in Inspiration

Big room planning webinar: Follow-up questions and resources

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “How to facilitate a successful big room planning event”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here. The webinar is full of tips from experienced Agile coaches, plus some real Lucid examples.) Check out these additional resources for your next big room planning event:Free template: Release planning event Blog post: The definitive big room planning guide (+ a template toolkit) Lucid Training Labs: Big room planning guide Help center: Using Timelines in Lucidspark Help center: Get started with Visual Activities in Lucid Free template: Burndown chart Free template: Current vs. future state flowchart example Help center: Using Dynamic Shapes to track progress Help center: Adding swimlanes to diagrams Help center: Linking data to diagrams Integration: Lucid's integrations with Jira Integration: Lucid's integration with Azure DevOpsIf you have questions about using Lucidchart, Lucidspark, or Lucidscale, please

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Micala R
16 days ago
Ashley C
Ashley CLucid support team
posted in Inspiration

Ready to up-level your org chart? Take a look at Group View 👀

Having a thorough understanding of your organization’s structure is a critical tool for an organization of any size. With org charts in Lucidchart you can quickly see who reports to whom and get clarity during the hiring process by easily identifying gaps within your organization. But many modern organizations aren’t always captured with the typical top-down hierarchical model. In particular hierarchical org charts can fall short when you need to visualize the cross-functional ways team members work. For example at Lucid our product developers work in SCRUM teams. Each SCRUM team consists of a product manager two or three software developers one or two quality assurance specialists and a UX designer. This means individual members from four different departments are regularly collaborating on a project but this collaboration isn’t easily represented by the traditional top-down org chart. That’s why we created Group View which allows you to separate your org chart data by any unique valu

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C
19 days ago
Addie
AddieLucid community team
published in Inspiration

How Lucid is the perfect fit for Agile

Today’s shifting and increasingly hybrid workforce presents a new set of challenges that can make it difficult to uphold Agile values. Our recent webinar, Sustaining the values of the Agile Manifesto in today’s workforce, demonstrated in-depth how Lucid is the perfect solution to address the need for communication, flexibility, and alignment. Here are the four main Agile Manifesto values and how Lucid can help you sustain them:Individual and interaction over process and tools  Lucid products support communication and transparency, as our products support both real-time and asynchronous collaboration. Features such as comments, Team Spaces, Visual Activities, and more, give team members a place to consistently come back to for connection and knowledge-sharing, giving everyone a voice. Working software over comprehensive documentation  Lucid helps here with alignment and avoiding over-documentation because Lucid documents can become a living blueprint of your business. Customer collab

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mfriedman
22 days ago
K
khaleesioflucidchartLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Conditional Formatting to sum up items/cards (or an aspect of a card, like Jira story points) in a Dynamic Table

Have you ever wanted to have an easy indicator of the total number of items/cards in a Dynamic Table’s rows or columns? Check out this video to learn how to make a basic rule for number of cards - and even to display another aspect, like total number of Jira story points! Total up the number of cards/items!Sum up the Story Points in a column/row! Video link: https://play.goconsensus.com/s401d82c4

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Abby S
26 days ago
V
Viktor
asked in Inspiration

Team Retro Tips in Lucidspark

We are considering of using Lucidspark for retro activities, and I wanted to ask what is your go-to trick for making such meetings even more engaging?

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Abby S
26 days ago
Micala R
Micala RLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Upcoming webinar: Sustaining the values of the Agile Manifesto

This week, we’re hosting a webinar with experienced Agile coaches and Lucid experts on how you can uphold Agile values in today’s shifting workforce. During the webinar, they will:Discuss the shifting challenges of upholding Agile values.  Give practical tips for upholding Agile values across your organization. Show how Lucid can help you stay aligned with the values of the Agile Manifesto.Here’s the info you need to register—hope to see you Thursday! Sustaining the values of the Agile Manifesto in today’s workforceDate: February 29, 2024Time: 1 p.m. MST (3 p.m. EST)Register now

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Abby S
26 days ago
Leo Barnes
Lucid Legend Level 1
Leo BarnesLucid Legend Level 1
posted in Inspiration

Personal projects support professional ones

I use Lucid every day in my job and it’s an essential part of helping me to explain projects and processes to clients. However I also use it for small personal projects.  Although that may seem ‘frivolous’, I actually find that it enables me to really refine HOW i use the platform and supports me in making designs and diagrams much more quickly. If I was to do that just on ‘work’ projects, it would be under a lot more pressure.  So I suggest you pick something you’re interested in and create something visual that helps you to explain it to someone else. You’ll definitely find that it helps you when creating work projects. 

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Micah
28 days ago
Bryan S.
Bryan S.Lucidite
posted in Inspiration

Upcoming webinar: How to facilitate a successful big room planning event

Join our webinar next week where Lucid colleague Jessica Guistolise and I will break down how to make big room planning events more successful and efficient. Come for the convo but stay for the amazing real world examples from our two Lucid guests Steven Wellman and Susan Taylor Schmidt.Tips for setting up a big room planning session for success. Steps for facilitating a big room planning event. Examples of how Lucid leaders have run big room planning sessions with their teams.Here’s the info you need to register—hope you see you there!How to facilitate a successful big room planning eventDate: April 11, 2024Time: 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET) Register now

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Bryan S.
1 month ago
Audrey V
Audrey VLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Non-technical ways to use Lucid's intelligence to spark creativity and save time✨

Lucid is packed with intelligent data and automation features—but they’re not only for technical use cases! Here are a few of my favorite ways anyone can use Lucid to save time, spark creativity, and make decisions:Visual ActivitiesWith Visual Activities, you can capture team input through a visual survey on anything from ranking upcoming project priorities to deciding whether or not a hotdog is a sandwich (Be warned: you may spark some spicy debate with that one). Once everyone’s weighed in, you can automatically aggregate the results to view trends, areas of consensus, or places of misalignment. Use this view as a basis for discussion (and an opportunity for those who think a hotdog is a sandwich to defend their answer). Collaborative AIWith Collaborative AI, you can drastically speed up the ideation and synthesis process. Here’s how:Generate ideas: Use a basic prompt to generate ideas for a brainstorming session and get the ball rolling. You can try anything from “social media marke

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Audrey V
1 month ago
rafaalb07
Lucid Legend Level 1
rafaalb07Lucid Legend Level 1
posted in Inspiration

Using Lucidspark for Professional and Personal Use - Some thoughts!

Hi Community!Hope you all are doing greatJust to add to this amazing section in our Lucid Community, I'd like to share some thoughts on some ideas and possible uses for Lucidspark:As a Product Owner of a specific startup, I pretty much use Lucidspark for all ideation process and refinement. All work done in this specific board - in bigger or smaller part - becomes the creation of our backlog in Jira.Starting this I'd like to share our base Flowchart and Value Stream: This was, kinda, the first activity that I did with the team. Understanding our overall flow of activities. This way we were able to align some terminology and find ourselves where we were talking in our Value Stream.Another important activity - now with the UX Team, was to create our UI journey of specific screens that we were talking about. This had important repercussions with the UX team in general Still in the Same organization I did a brainstorm with the Sales Team. In that aspect we were talking about Sales Pitch an

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mfriedman
1 month ago
mmerrill
mmerrillLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Level up your diagramming (+ free course!)

By now, you’re likely familiar with the importance of visually displaying data. But sometimes there is so much data to communicate that the most critical parts get lost in translation. Enter: Conditional formatting.What is conditional formatting?Conditional formatting is a feature in Lucidchart that further enables you to unlock the power of visual communication. Using conditional formatting will bring stakeholders together while up-leveling the impact of your diagrams. 👉🏽Sign up for the “Gain Insight With Conditional Formatting” course to see demonstrations of conditional formatting and try it out. Conditional formatting is the next step in powerful diagramming. 

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mfriedman
1 month ago
cbailey
cbaileyLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Register for this Thursday's Webinar: How Lucid's top customers use Lucid

Hey Lucid Community!I’m Christopher from Lucid’s Professional Services team, and I’m thrilled to share that later this week, I, along with some of my colleagues, will be showcasing the innovative visual systems that some of our biggest customers have built using Lucid. This webinar will demo advanced use cases, from scenario dashboarding and modeling to process management and architecture diagramming. We hope to leave you inspired and ready to revolutionize your own workflows! Plus, we will share insights on how my team crafted customized solutions to meet the unique needs of our customers. Here are the registration details:How Lucid’s top customers use Lucid Date: March 28, 2024 Time: 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT)Register now

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Ria S
Lucid Legend Level 1
1 month ago
K
khaleesioflucidchartLucidite
posted in Inspiration

Auto-Number Shapes (Handles Branching)

Hi! I’m a Sr SE at Lucid and wanted to share a way to calculate the step number on your shapes - in a way that handles branching. The way that I do this can be seen in the following video, and I’ll include screenshots below. VIDEO: https://play.goconsensus.com/aa349b532 The formula that I put at the page level - and “Apply to all shapes” - is the following:=if(count(upstream) = 0, 1, if(count(UPSTREAM) = 1, upstream."Step Number" + 1, filter(upstream, x => doesnotcontain(upstreamdeep(x).$id, this.$id))."Step Number" + 1))Note: I choose to call my Property “Step Number” and that formula is the value that I give to it. If you use a different name, update your formula accordingly. Conditional Formatting Rule:  RESULT: 

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Lance
1 month ago
Phillip W
Phillip WLucid support team
posted in Inspiration

Corporate Styling with Lucid

In the realm of corporate branding, color schemes are more than just aesthetic choices; they are powerful tools that convey a company's personality, values, and messaging. From evoking emotions to influencing consumer perceptions, selecting the right color scheme is a strategic decision that can profoundly impact brand recognition and resonance. We understand that here at Lucid and want to provide you with a couple of options to help jumpstart your branded collaboration.  Using the color picker for branded colors:The first thing you’ll want to know how to use is the color fill. Within this toolbar, you can change the color of shapes on the canvas to a custom, branded hex color code. Custom shapes with branded colors:Now that you know how to pick a custom fill, you can pull some process shapes onto the canvas. These will serve as your palette for your custom colors. From there, add one color fill to each shape, creating your palette. Once you’re done, align your shapes in a way you like

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R
1 month ago
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