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LATELY @ LUCID: NEW WAYS TO BOOST AGILITY THIS FALL 2024

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Topics:

 * Agile
 * Visual collaboration
 * Lucid updates

At Lucid, we’re always improving our products and building the future of visual
collaboration—all with the goal of helping teams work together more effectively.
As teams today grapple with the rise of AI and remote work, it’s clear that they
could use a better way to respond to the market and deliver value faster.

That’s why this edition of Lately @ Lucid features a round-up of capabilities
designed to accelerate agility.

Whether your team actually considers itself an Agile team or simply needs ways
to iterate faster, we’ve got you covered. After all, being agile isn’t about the
frameworks you follow—it’s about how you work together as a team. And we’ve
discovered that the recipe for a successful Agile team includes:

 * Collaboration: Agile teams need shared visual spaces to connect and
   facilitate engagement.
 * Alignment: They also need ways to visualize work, capture feedback, achieve
   consensus, and move into action.
 * Clarity: And of course, truly Agile teams need a clear way to see
   dependencies, plan work, and report progress to stakeholders. 

As the path toward business agility evolves, we want to evolve with you—and our
latest capabilities give teams the power to collaborate, align, and clarify
better than ever before. Let’s take a closer look. 




TEAM-LEVEL COORDINATION

The early stages of Agile were really focused at the team level—specifically,
the individuals doing the work and how they collaborated as a team. Of course,
the rise of remote work has forced us to rethink how teams can come together for
daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous
coordination.



With Lucid, your team can still come together on a visual canvas to collaborate
on plans, make decisions on priorities, and keep coordinating in between live
interactions. 

Here’s how:


CREATE A TEAM SPACE

Bring your team together—no matter where they’re working from—by creating a team
space in Lucid. Team spaces provide a virtual “where” for Agile teams,
replicating many of the benefits of the physical team rooms, bays, or war rooms
that your team might have used before. 

You can house and organize artifacts in your team space, such as team charters,
working agreements, and other resources, using Frames. With embedded links, you
can link to other Lucid documents or reference documentation in other platforms
so that team members have one central place to look for relevant content.

Use team spaces to create a virtual "where" for your Agile team.


FACILITATE TEAM EVENTS

Lucid makes it easy to facilitate meetings and repeatable team events, such as
daily standups or retrospectives. Our new customizable templates, designed with
the help of Agile experts, guide you step by step through each event.

Try them now:

 * Daily standup template
 * Sprint planning template
 * Sprint retrospective template
 * Sprint review template

These are not your typical templates. Each new template includes quick tools
placed strategically on the canvas so you can easily access the tools you need
when you need them. Start a timer, use the laser pointer, import Jira issues,
and more directly from each template to seamlessly facilitate engaging events.

And now, you can create psychological safety by allowing team members to share
ideas, questions, and concerns anonymously in private mode. When private mode is
enabled, sticky note authors and the content of newly added sticky notes are
hidden from other collaborators. At the end of a private mode session, you can
reveal the contents of sticky notes while keeping the authors hidden to maintain
privacy.




STREAMLINE SPRINT PLANNING AND PRODUCT BACKLOG REFINEMENT

Agile teams often face one of two troubling scenarios when estimating and
prioritizing work. Either they do all their planning directly in a system of
record like Jira or Azure DevOps (ADO), without a way for others to collaborate
or easily engage, or they use a whiteboard (physical or virtual) to brainstorm
and plan together but then spend hours transferring this plan back into their
system of record. 

Lucid, however, provides the best of both worlds, giving teams a space to plan
that’s both collaborative and directly linked to your system of record.

To start, we’re introducing a new team estimation capability to help teams
quickly and collaboratively estimate the level of effort associated with each
task with a poker-planning style approach. Using an estimation shape bank—either
for story points or T-shirt sizes—each team member can privately drop an
estimation value below a card. Then, you can view the results, discuss any
differing opinions, and apply the agreed-upon estimate to the Lucid Card or Jira
Card.



When you’re ready to move into action, convert sticky notes on your Lucid canvas
into Jira or ADO integration cards. Or, import existing Jira issues and ADO
items directly onto your Lucid canvas. With improved filtering, it’s now easier
than ever to find and import Jira issues—no need to know how to use JQL. 

Note: To gain access to these new features, ADO users will need to download the
latest version of the Lucid Cards for Azure DevOps app.



Once you have Jira or ADO cards on the canvas, you can organize them using
a Dynamic Table. Pivot the Dynamic Table in whatever way you need, such as by
sprint and status. With a two-way sync, you can make changes to your plan in
either platform, knowing that the most current data will be reflected in each
source.

Learn more about data-backed Dynamic Tables in Lucid.

Read more

If you need to have a prioritization discussion during planning—let’s say your
team has the capacity to take on an additional task—you can use Visual
Activities to collectively identify which backlog item that should be. Each team
member can privately rank the Lucid Cards by impact and effort. Finally, come
together to quickly view how individuals ranked each backlog item, then use this
visual to initiate meaningful discussion and, ultimately, reach a consensus.



With the sprint set, track your team's progress and workload with data-backed
reporting shapes. Create a workload tracker shape within a Dynamic Table, and
create a progress bar shape within a Dynamic Table, Frame, or timeline.




PROGRAM-LEVEL PLANNING

We know that teams don’t work in silos. Quite the opposite, actually—Agile teams
work with many other teams and need ways to plan cross-functional work, align on
dependencies, and report progress to stakeholders. 



Don’t worry—we’ve thought of the big picture, too. Lucid’s latest capabilities
support not only team coordination but also large-scale collaboration across the
organization. 

Here’s how:


BIG ROOM PLANNING

Whether you call it big room planning, quarterly planning, PI planning, or
something else, Lucid has templates to guide large groups through a seamless
planning session. Each template includes structured space for an agenda, team
roster, note-taking, and small group work. 

Try them out:

 * Big room planning template
 * PI planning template
 * Program coordination dashboard
 * Ultimate sprint workflow template

A critical component of these big room planning sessions is sending teams off on
their own to brainstorm and plan for the quarter or increment. Breakout boards
have been one of Lucid’s most popular features for small group work for a
while—and now, you can drag breakout boards directly onto your Lucid canvas to
more easily separate teams and information within a working session, then circle
back to the larger group.



Visualizing dependencies is a huge part of mitigating risk in these
cross-functional planning efforts. We’re excited to share that you can now use
Lucid to visualize dependency data in real time directly from Jira and Azure
DevOps. And if you map out any new dependencies in Lucid, you can sync that data
back to Jira and ADO. No need to manually transfer over plans. 

Then, see how dependencies fit within the larger plan by adding your data-backed
Jira or ADO Cards directly to a timeline.



Try out Lucid’s dependency mapping integrations.

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When it’s time to allocate work, you can add profile shapes to your Lucid
planning document. Visually represent Lucid users as shapes on your Lucid
canvas. Then, as your team discusses who will work on which backlog items, drop
profile shapes onto Lucid or Jira Cards to visualize the distribution of work.
You can also use profile shapes to start a comment thread or share documents
with teammates. 

With your plan in place, you can conduct a confidence vote using Visual
Activities to gauge the team's readiness and identify any potential risks early
on. Lucid offers the option to make the vote anonymous, ensuring that all team
members can provide honest feedback without fear of judgment.


MORE RESOURCES TO BOOST AGILITY 

At Lucid, we want to do more than provide you with the right tooling to increase
agility—we also want to share our knowledge and expertise to help you see real
results. With over 30 years of combined experience from our evangelists and
professional services team (not to mention user feedback from large-scale
enterprises that practice Agile), we’ve learned a thing or two about
implementing Agile. 

We’ve applied this expertise not only to our products but also to our training,
consulting, and implementation services. Take a look at a few of our resources
to learn more about effectively adopting Agile in your organization. 


NEW SERIES: ALL-ACCESS AGILE

In our newest series, All-access Agile, Lucid’s evangelists, Bryan Stallings and
Jessica Guistolise, share expert tips that both facilitators and participants
can apply to make Agile events more effective. Whether you’re a seasoned
practitioner or just getting started, you’ll walk away with strategies you can
apply right away.

ALL-ACCESS AGILE

Watch the series now—and look out for new episodes!

Check it out


LUCID AND THE AGILE NETWORK

Lucid is working with The Agile Network because we wanted our users to have
best-in-class visual collaboration paired with the best-in-class source for all
things Agile. Join The Agile Network’s Global Launch event, kicking off on
Tuesday, October 8 at 2 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CET. This event will offer 24+ hours of
livestreams and exclusive events featuring Agile experts from around the world,
including sessions that leverage Lucid’s latest capabilities.

Don’t miss your chance to hear from Agile Manifesto authors Alistair Cockburn
and Ron Jeffries, along with leading Agile experts Diana Larsen, Esther Derby,
Chet Hendrickson, Jeff Patton, and many more. 


IN-PRODUCT LEARNING CENTER

You can now access Lucid’s new learning center directly from Lucidchart and
Lucidspark. It’s easier than ever to view help desk articles, dive into Lucid
Training Labs, join a discussion in our community, and more. 

Explore Lucid's agile resources in our in-product learning center.

Learn now

With an entire section in the learning center dedicated to Agile, you’ll have
everything you need—from interactive walkthroughs to specialized templates—to
improve your Agile workflow in Lucid. Strengthen your skills further by
completing our new badge, Agile Visualization, in a three-part course that
focuses on using Lucid to sustain the values of the Agile Manifesto.

Strengthen your skills by completing our latest badge, Agile Visualization.


JOIN US AS WE CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE AGILITY

We hope you’re as excited about these new capabilities as we are! As your team
continues exploring the best ways to improve agility, Lucid is evolving right
along with you, strengthening collaboration for modern-day teams and
organizations, and we’re not done yet. Keep an eye out for future updates as we
continue to help teams see and build the future.

LATELY @ LUCID WEBINAR

Watch the on-demand webinar to see all of these features in action.

Go now


ABOUT LUCID

Lucid Software is a pioneer and leader in visual collaboration dedicated to
helping teams build the future. With its products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and
Lucidscale—teams are supported from ideation to execution and are empowered to
align around a shared vision, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no
matter where they are. Lucid is proud to serve top businesses around the world,
including customers such as Google, GE, and NBC Universal, and 99% of the
Fortune 500. Lucid partners with industry leaders, including Google, Atlassian,
and Microsoft. Since its founding, Lucid has received numerous awards for its
products, business, and workplace culture. For more information, visit lucid.co.


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