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The values of the Agile Manifesto haven’t changed, but Lucid continues evolving to help teams stay agile and adapt quickly—even as AI, hybrid work, and other workplace changes make it challenging to do so.Join us for the rebroadcast of this popular webinar featuring practical tips from Agile coaches on how to sustain the values of the Agile Manifesto across your organization.We have also added a demo showing how Agile teams use the Lucid Suite to collaborate, get aligned, and work effectively from anywhere. Come for a sneak peek at the new Agility Accelerator, plus a showcase of Lucid Suite features you can start using right now!Sustaining the values of the Agile Manifesto in today’s workforceMay 15, 2025 at 11 a.m. MT

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “Sustaining the values of the Agile Manifesto in today’s workforce”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here.)Check out these additional resources related to the Agile Manifesto values and Lucid features discussed during the webinar:Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Recently, I had a chance to sit down with one of our awesome customer trainers, Cal Martin, to ask him to share the secrets to designing interactive and engaging presentations. In a virtual world, Zoom fatigue is real, and people will quickly become disengaged in your content. To combat this, here are Cal’s six tips for facilitating meetings or presentations.💫 Tip #1: Leverage real-time collaboration: Instead of talking at your audience, invite them to collaborate on Lucid’s canvas. Think polls, in-product chat, and sticky notes.💫 Tip #2: Build powerful visuals: Avoid big blocks of text by using visuals to convey your ideas.💫 Tip #3: Incorporate activities: Incorporating activities keeps people engaged, improves retention, and helps them refocus.💫 Tip #4: Set

You’ve built a Lucidspark board, or Lucidchart document-- nice work! Now it’s time to share it, but you’re second guessing the visual elements. Do these colors work? Would people want to engage with this? The good news is, you don’t need to be a designer to make something that “WOWs” your audience. Before you hit that share button, here are four tips and tricks to apply to your Lucid document to make your audience admire and explore it: Use the eye-dropper tool to add color from color palettes or images Whether you’re following your company’s branding guidelines, or want to play more with color, this trick will work for you. Add an image of a color palette from an online search to your canvas. Then, highlight the s

Happy Wednesday, Lucid Community! This one’s for the engineers. All too often, project disruptions and shifting requirements can slow down progress and decrease morale on your team.Luckily, I recently compiled a list of 10 templates to help keep projects on track and increase effective collaboration.Here are a few:Org chart by Scrum team

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “How Mercury uses Lucid to transform Agile practices”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here.) Now, for what you have been waiting for… all of the links and resources you need to try the Agile use cases out for yourself. 🤩Additional resources on the features shown during this webinar:Timelines

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, “Diagram to delight: New features to organize your canvas”! (If you didn’t have the chance to join, you can access the webinar on demand here.)Check out these additional resources related to organizing your canvas and the Lucid features discussed during the webinar:Building beautiful diagramsAdd swimlanes

Hey, managers! 👋🏽 This one’s for you.  In our recent blog post, we’ve gathered seven of our favorite manager templates to make your job easier. They’re perfect for teams of any size and in any industry.Here are just a few:1. Team competency matrixKeep track of your team’s skills and knowledge gaps with this team competency matrix template. Simply personalize it with the names of team members and competencies specific to your team, and you’re ready to get started.2. Team profile icebreaker Boost team cohesion (particularly with dispersed team members!) with this te

Welcome!Hi there! Do you conduct retrospectives on your sprints or projects? Are you tired of the same old round-robin meeting to cover lessons learned? Try hosting your next retro in Lucidspark! Add your ideas through sticky notes, react to your teammates’ comments, and prioritize your action items with a Visual Activity. If you’re just getting started with the Lucid Suite, retrospectives are my number one recommendation for you to get quick value. Here’s how to get started. 🚀 OverviewConducting a retro is easy. You just need to do these five things:Add a template from our templates library Use sticky notes to add your ideas Emoji react to ideas from your team Present you

Hi everyone!I’m excited to share something I’ve been working on — a Workshop Design & Facilitation Checklist built in Lucidspark!✨ Do you have a workshop coming up?✨ Wondering where to start and how to include the elements that make up a creative and engaging session?This checklist is designed to help you plan, lead, and follow up on workshops more effectively — whether you're running a quick brainstorming session or a large strategic planning event.You can choose from 3 different visual styles, select the one that best fits your working style or team needs: ✅ Simple Checklist — A clean checklist where you can mark off each task as its completed  🗂️ Dynamic Table + Sticky Notes — A flexible layout where tasks are sticky notes you can move, update, and organize visually 🧩 Dynamic Table +

PERT Diagraming in LucidPERT diagramming is a project management tool used to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project. It graphically represents the sequence of tasks and their dependencies, showing the critical path and estimated timelines. This method helps in analyzing potential bottlenecks and ensuring timely project completion.Historically individuals would write out the tasks and corresponding duration times on little cards then spread them across the room, they would then need to do mental math to calculate the start, finish and slack for

Hey there, Lucid Community! Whether you’re a template enthusiast or haven't tried them before, here are two new Lucidspark templates that we released last quarter.💫 Solution alignment: Empower your team to prioritize impactful business and customer solutions. Track and monitor progress towards implementing these solutions in a collaborative space.💫 Strategic planning team space: Welcome to your one-stop shop for you

Ever feel like your project roadmap is scattered across different tools, making it tough to see the big picture? Juggling deadlines, milestones, and understanding the WHY behind each step can be a real challenge for complicated projects.That's where Lucidspark's Timeline steps in as your visual compass. Imagine a clear, dynamic view of your project's journey, all in one collaborative space.Here's how Timelines help you conquer those roadmap hurdles:Crystal-Clear Roadmaps: No more deciphering complex spreadsheets! Timelines allow you to visually map out your project's phases and dependencies, making it easy for everyone to understand the sequence of events. Milestone Mastery: Easily define and track key milestones, ensuring everyone stays aligned on critical deadlines and deliverables. Visualize progress at a glance and proactively address potential roadblocks.

I recently had a conversation with someone who said they had seen me build an agile calculator as a part of the Lucid Formula training and was frustrated because they thought it was really cool but felt I went too fast and relied on the previous videos too much. This step by step guide will hopefully rectify that and help you build your own capacity calculator in Lucid. You can imagine this as a “Lucid Recipe”, so let’ start cooking! I created this practice board with the same instructions you are welcome to follow along on, it has the same instructions but is in a Lucid document, when you click the link above it will automatically make a new c

Understanding how data linking works in Lucidchart is key to creating powerful, insightful diagrams. It's all about how your data's structure—your rows and columns—translates into the visuals you create. Getting this right will streamline your workflow and make your diagrams more effective.  Rows: Building the Foundation of Your DiagramsThink of each row in your data as a building block,

Hello,I am training some nursing professors on how to use Lucidspark in Canvas. I would like to embed a document that they will all collaborate on just to become familiar with navigation, tools, menus, etc. This will be from the student perspective. They are enrolled in a course in which they are students. It could be an ice breaker activity or it could be an example of something they might use for their students. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. I did listen to the YT playlist of how others are using it, but I really didn’t get any good ideas for this first learning experience. I am learning Lucid as I go along as well.  Thanks in advance!Debbie

When you delete or delicense (Enterprise-Only) a user, Lucid prompts you to transfer the documents of this user to another account to ensure all company data and information are stored within one account.  If you are looking to centrally manage these documents, you can create a repository account that will not require a Lucid license and use it as a Default Document Owner. Repository accounts can have a generic email address such as support@companydomain.com or luciddocuments@companydomain.com. This way, you ensure that the documents are tied to a generic account and not to the Account Owner or any other user who might leave the company at some point in the future. To do that, plea

Ever tried hammering in a screw? Or holding something together with duct tape “just for now”? Yeah... we’ve all been there. But the right tool makes all the difference. A hammer drives nails. A paintbrush spreads color. A batarang… well, stops crime.Lucid has tools too—each one built to help you work better, faster, and more collaboratively. And it all starts in the Universal Canvas, your gateway to the right workspace for the job.Let’s break it down: Gif showing Universal Canvas. Switch between Lucidspark and Lucidchart toolsets.Lucidspark is your go-to for brainstorming, meetings, and planning.With sticky notes, a built-in timer, dynamic tables,

 Here’s a quick guide on how to delete duplicate users with two accounts under different email addresses:How to Delete Duplicate UsersIdentify the Duplicate Accounts Locate the user’s two accounts and compare the number of documents associated with each. We recomme

Here are the top 5 questions I get as a Lucid Customer Trainer - along with the quick answers and pro tips you can use for your next board!1. When should I use Lucidspark versus Lucidchart?Lucidspark is your virtual whiteboard for real‑time creativity and ideation. Use it to: Brainstorm and map out ideas with sticky notes, freehand drawing, voting, and visual activities Run agile ceremonies like retrospectives, planning, and daily stand‑ups Gather feedback and facilitate workshops that spark team engagement Pro Tip: Think SPARK = spark creativity!Lucidchart is your intelligent diagramming workspace for structure and clarity. Use it to: Visualize processes, org charts, systems, and data flows On‑board new hires with clear, standardized documentation

Suppose you are using ServiceNow or a similar platform for license management requests for other software your organization uses. In that case, you probably do not want to receive requests in the Lucid admin panel or emails to respond to them.  Lucid allows you to redirect users to an external link in order to submit a license request, allowing you to centralize your license distribution actions.  In your Lucid Admin panel, under License Settings, you can place an external link that would redirect your users to your desired ticketing system or form. 

Hey Lucid Community! Have you ever had a coworker fall asleep 😴 during a Sprint Planning meeting because one person was sharing their screen of the Jira backlog the whole time? Or tried to do quarterly planning in a digital tool but gotten frustrated about the amount of work it can take to transfer everything back over to Jira or Azure DevOps?  Yeah, that’s happened to me too. I’m Spencer and I’m one of the product managers here at Lucid. My scrum teams use Jira everyday for tracking work but we quickly realized that they aren’t very collaborative or easy to use. Once we started using Lucid’s integrations with tools like Jira and Azure DevOps, it completely changed the way we work. People actually talk and collaborate in meetings as we talk through work and break down epics. I rarely have to go into Jira anymore because I can create tasks straight from Lucid and edits are synced back without me having to do anything.  We want to share how yo

If your team uses Azure DevOps, you won’t want to miss this live webinar!Join us to see how Lucid’s bidirectional integration with ADO enables teams to create a more engaging space to collaborate, visualize dependencies, estimate work, and more. We’re taking a closer look at this topic based on high customer demand.An in-depth look at Lucid’s Azure DevOps integrationApril 24, 2025 at 11 a.m. MTRegister here

Hey Lucid Community! Hope you’re all having a great week. I wanted to share about Lucid’s Atlassian integrations in case you haven’t connected them with your Lucid account. 🙌If you have a Team or Enterprise account, you can leverage our Confluence and Jira integrations to:Clarify tasks Track projects Align teams Provide necessary contex

Make folder navigation effortless to help you breathe easier! If you're an avid user of Lucid, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the sheer number of documents you've created—especially when collaborating with other power users. Over time, your folder structure can become cluttered and hard to navigate.To help streamline your workspace, here’s a recommended approach for organizing your Lucid folders that makes it easier to sift through a long list of documents. This method is actually used internally at Lucid today. 1. Pick a category for the main folderStart by creating subfolders within your team folders based on the type of document you're organizing. ✅ For example, if you're grouping customer-related documents, create a