Inspiration

Hey everyone! Do you have a go-to Lucid template you rely on to facilitate group discussions and workshops? 🤓 One of my favorites is the Parking lot matrix template. It helps groups keep discussions focused and meetings on track while providing a place to capture the great ideas and tangent thoughts that inevitably come up when talented brains come together! You can try out this template here and browse other template options in the Lucidspark Template Gallery!💡

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 consist

Hey all! Facilitating design workshops is such an important part of product/UX teams’ workflows. Especially when it comes to facilitating great collaboration! When you bring creative individuals together and get them working on a shared visual canvas, magic happens.   We use Lucid to facilitate design workshops. This is our process:We outline the problems and define goals. Lucid’s flexible canvas allows us to organize sticky notes into clear frames, import key data, and share files for team reference. This outlining method lets us gather all the necessary context in one shared place Then we generate ideas, build o

Give everyone a voice and improve engagement during retrospective meetings by making the most out of Lucidspark’s Team and Collaboration Tools:Set a timer to keep the discussion around each topic focused and on track. Leverage emoji reactions to get a pulse on how each collaborator feels while identifying the most popular ideas. 

Streamline your backlog refinement meetings and facilitate a collaborative decision-making process using Lucid cards for Jira! The trick is to make your product backlog visual, giving transparency to stakeholders as your team sees the bigger picture and aligns on the next steps. First, import your backlog items into Lucidspark to display them as cards. From there, you can organize items around sprints, determine dependencies, set actionable goals, and keep track of progress. For detailed steps, check out this Help Center article! If you need an inspiration boost, take a look at this

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

Successfully onboarding new engineers comes with a number of challenges. From getting your new hire caught up on team structure, to supporting them with learning your systems and code, visual aids can play a key role. How do you use diagrams and boards in your onboarding process for new engineers?

At Lucid, our engineering teams use Lucidspark to document and share sprint reviews for their individual Scrum teams with other stakeholders at Lucid. How does your organization facilitate and document sprint reviews? If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out our Sprint review team room template! 

Did you know Lucidspark offers Scrum board templates to help manage sprints, plan and review meetings, and stay work-focused? This solution allows teams to prioritize tasks and keep track of goals, progress and individual commitments.Here are some reasons why Lucidspark is an excellent tool for creating Scrum boards: You can update your Scrum board in real time, allowing remote collaboration and tracking individual collaborators' edits. Add sticky notes with tasks, and then add each task to your product backlog for your team to get started. Collaboration tools like @mention comments, in-editor chat, and emoji reactions allow teams to share ideas and feedback while keeping track of project needs. Connect with powerful integrations li

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?

This product is one of my favorite tools with my teams. I am mainly using this Scaled Agile environment but would be interested to see how this is used in other frameworks or in waterfall.

Ever found yourself overwhelmed by urgent requests, struggling to maintain order? I’ve been there too. I’d love to show you how I use Lucid to provide a clear visualization of resources and time. Perhaps you can adopt the same style, or pick up some tricks from it! Of course, Sprint planning is taken care of with Lucid, but I wanted to also ensure seamless integration and communication, simplifying all processes for my teammates as well. I lean on Lucid to be my agile assistant to make this happen! Now when unexpected requests disrupt my plans, making swift adjustments is effortless and my whole team is on the same page. Take a look at our example below and let's elevate your IT endeavors to a new level. We also have many

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)

Hey everyone—let’s talk about product planning! I want to know: What features, integrations, templates, or tips do you use in product planning? 🤔We’ll start with a couple of tips from Lucid’s product team:Tip #1: Prioritize ideas with Visual Activities! After our initial product planning workshop, we need a way to narrow down ideas. Visual Activities allows us to gather input from everyone and rank ideas to come to a consensus. Reaching a group decision used to take us hours of discussion but now is quick and painless. Try out an

Hi everyone! I wanted to get your thoughts on designing customer journey maps. Do you swear by any features, templates, tips, integrations, or capabilities for the customer journey mapping process? 🤔Lucid’s product team tackles this process in four steps:Capture insights from user interviews in Lucid Create personas and map user experiences Align on what users are experiencing and make decisions based on actual customer experience and data Turn those insights into impactful changesHere’s one of the templates they use to

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. 

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

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 automati

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”

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)

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.

A Mind Map, also known as a concept map, is a visual tool that can be used to organize and connect different parts of a central idea or theme. This tool is useful for brainstorming, problem-solving, and organizing complex information.💁One helpful feature of mind maps is the ability to hide certain branches and make only some visible, which can simplify your work without losing essential information. Have you used Mind Maps in Lucidspark? Share your experience in the comments below!👇  

On Thursday, March 21, we’re partnering with Avocor—a builder of interactive whiteboards—to share practical tips and best practices for setting up physical workspaces that meet the needs of both onsite and remote employees.Register now and join us to: Learn what types of shared workspaces inspire collaboration and how to use different configurations for different types of meetings. Hear about the benefits of incorporating video and touchscreen whiteboards into every shared workspace and how you can use them to facilitate better meetings.  Find out how Lucid creates a culture of collaboration through a combination of tech

If you missed the recent Webinar announced by Lucid’s Director of IT Alan ( @arf ) in this post, I highly recommend watching the How Lucid uses Lucid - IT video series. We’d love to hear your impressions - Did you find any inspiration for how to use Lucid in your IT team? Do you have any other use cases you can recommend to the IT Community Group? Let us know on this thread!  

Lucidspark is a great tool for brainstorming, collaboration, and project management, but it can be more than just an incredible tool for teamwork—it can also be a lot of fun! Here are four unique and fun ways to utilize Lucidspark: Reading tracker 📚-  If you are looking for a great way to keep track of the books you're reading, have read, or want to read, use Lucidspark! You can fully customize a reading tracker to visually see what you’ve read, track reading goals, and insert rewards for reaching these goals. Here is a book-tracking template to get you started!