Inspiration

Name: ShellyCompany: LucidView-only link: https://lucid.app/lucidspark/36824fcf-284b-477b-890d-56debd864855/edit?viewport_loc=-5310%2C-2489%2C12005%2C5432%2C0_0&invitationId=inv_7a2f8cfa-59d6-471f-bc2a-591f6a2ba84aWhy I love it: This is another board I created when I used to lead retrospectives for my old team! They voted on a frog theme, and this is what I created for them - frogs having grand adventures! I like how frogs are depicted doing unique activities within the same setting. My favorite frog is the frog artist painting at the top of the Shoutouts frame, as I tried t

First Name: MarcCompany: Elastic - Search AI CompanyDescription: Working in a globally distributed company across every timezone creates a high threshold to hold synchronous retrospective meetings. We need to make our time count, but we don’t want lose out on valuable perspectives of how our team is doing from sprint to sprint. It’s also important to mention that it can be difficult to get more introverted teams to engage in lengthy retrospectives. Our iterations over time have seen a simplified version be both more time effective and engaging for all team members. I love this retro because it combines what we see in our data with how the team feels about the progress. Using this information, we can make prioritized decisi

Name: MelindaCompany:  LucidThis was my third retro board and it really set the standard for each of my later boards. This was the board that got me thinking outside of the “retro boxes”.My Retros are themed and tend to act as an Ice Breaker all on their own.The “business” part covers these areas:Shout OutsA fun section that changes each sprintWhat can be improvedWhat went wellDiscussion topicsWho’s out next sprintAction ItemsI also include a Visual Activity to allow the team to vote on the theme for the next sprint.  This helps to create unity and morale within the team.View Only Link:Go

Name:  MelindaCompany: LucidThis is the largest board I’ve made.  I incorporated stickies to complete the road over on the left.  This one also uses more shapes and images than any other board I’ve made. The business part of this board is toward the middle top of the main green area.My Retros are themed and tend to act as an Ice Breaker all on their own.The “business” part covers these areas:Shout OutsA fun section that changes each sprintWhat can be improvedWhat went wellDiscussion topicsWho’s out next sprintAction Items View Only Link:Dr. Seuss Retro Board

@Humas1985  is one of our top Lucid Legends. He is a diagramming pro and one of the frequent faces you’ll see around the community, so we want to share one of his use cases with you! Check out how he visualizes his lead management system in Lucidchart.

First name: KiraCompany: Lucid SoftwareView-only link to board: Roadtrip RetroWhy I love it: This board is visual and engaging. It starts with an icebreaker, then each participant gets to choose a car and go on a roadtrip for the duration of the retrospective. 

Hi, everyone!Join us on July 25 at 11 a.m. MDT for an in-depth look at the newest innovations in diagramming software, and see how using smarter tools can help you work smarter and faster. We’ll show off Lucid features such as quick diagramming, data linking, AI-generated diagrams, and more!Register here: https://lucid.co/resources/webinars/next-generation-of-diagramming-july-2024?utm_medium=lucid-outreach&utm_source=community&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=jul-2024-gtm-webinar3

Hi, everyone!Join us on July 18 for an insightful webinar on improving cross-functional team coordination. Our experts will share strategies to optimize teamwork in remote and hybrid environments, highlighting some of our newest capabilities in Lucid.👉🏻 Register hereHow to improve cross-functional team coordinationJuly 18, 2024 at 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT)We’ll discuss:Effective strategies for remote and hybrid team coordin

Summer is here! And there’s no reason why your summer fun can’t be organized. Check out our 6 templates that will let you make the most out of your summer.Travel itinerary templateVacations are fun, but there’s also a lot of work. Let your summer travel be stress-free by using our travel itinerary template. With it, you can  plan details, daily schedules, and transportation with ease.SMART goals templateResolutions don’t have to be reserved for New Years. Whether it’s painting, learning a language, or spending more time outside, summer can be full of resolutions. Visualize and organize your summer goals with our SMART goals template to make the most of your summer.

https://play.goconsensus.com/s1b586639?autoplay Check out this video to learn how to build a smart conditional formatting rule to apply to Lucid Jira cards (or other card types) that will calculate the total number of cards/issues and points along a path. In the second half of the video, it will show how to do a similar rule - but with a % to completion of the path, based on status of cards. The video goes over how to calculate both total cards/issues in path marked as complete, and total points along path marked as complete. https://play.goconsensus.com/s1b586639?autoplay 

Do you want to visually portray steps and documents in a process? Does your process involve multiple actors or categories? If so build a flowchart! Follow this walkthrough of the Business process flow example to understand how to work with flowcharts in Lucidchart. You can also customize this template to suit your own teams and processes!This template includes both advanced and basic flowchart shapes. Swim lanes are the advanced shapes that contain the entire process and organize steps into four categories: responsibilities of the customer sales team management and credit department. Within

Hi, Lucid Community!I’m excited to share some tips to improve the way your team coordinates work! Team coordination involves arranging people, work, and timelines to ensure projects run smoothly. But coordination has become more difficult with an increase in hybrid and remote teams. Luckily, Lucid can help.Try out these strategies:Build a home base for your team. In Lucid, users can organize themselves into teams and create a team hub, a shared space with centralized resources so every team member can initiat

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.

You probably know that Lucidspark is the go-to platform for inspiring creative brainstorming sessions with your team, but did you know that there are so many other ways to leverage this infinite canvas?Let’s take a peek at some of the other ways you can use Lucidspark to work more intuitively:Whiteboard: Lucidspark is not your average virtual whiteboard. Features like the timer,

Whether you want to collaborate, brainstorm, or launch ideas into action, there are dozens of Lucidspark features to help you seamlessly meet your goals! 🏆Inspired by the Lucid Champions program (an exclusive, customer-centric engagement program for Lucid’s biggest fans), here are some of our best tricks to help you fully utilize all of Lucidspark’s innovative features.Sticky notesSticky notes are by far one of our most-used and most-loved features. In fact, an anonymous Lucid Champion even called them the workhorse of whiteboarding! But did you know you can utilize the Quick Cleanup tool to clean up your sticky notes in seconds? Add ideas without restriction, and then Quick Cleanup will help you view them in an orderly way. ContainersContainers are perfect for boosting the clarity of your whiteboard. Organize

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

Hey Lucid Community! My name’s Cal and I’m a customer trainer at Lucid. In a few days, I’ll be hosting webinar to help you and your teams build stellar business process diagrams.  I’ll show you how to build your diagrams for clarity so that you can gain even more insights into your workflows and processes. Then, we’ll workshop together so that you leave feeling confident to create your own diagrams. Here are the details:Building effective business process diagrams📅 Date: May 16, 2024🕒Time: 11 a.m. MDT (1 p.m. EDT)

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    

Attention all innovators! 📢At Lucid, we’re defining what it means to build the future. Since that mission is all about innovation, we know there’s more to it than just big ideas—it’s also about the tools and processes you use to bring ideas to life. For example, our research and development (R&D) teams use Lucid to visualize data and architecture design. They might use a template like these or create their own visual system. Visualizin

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 🎉

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

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

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 sprea

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

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!