This summer, Agile2024 brought together practitioners from across sectors to explore and advance Agile practices and tools. At Miro, we were blown away by the speakers, ideas, energy, and the Agile community as a whole.
This year, we encouraged presenters to create a template in the Miroverse as a takeaway from their speaking sessions. The results gave everyone — including those who couldn’t make the conference — something to implement at home.
If you attended or read about an inspiring talk, here’s your chance to take the template and use it in your work, whether that’s building a product or aligning your team on a project. Simply copy your chosen template and log into Miro to get started.
1. Visioning Journey Map by Dave Cornelius
A visioning journey is a structured process to help people understand their current reality and self, identify a goal, and make a plan to reach it. This visioning journey template was created by Dave Cornelius, aka “Dr. Dave,” an executive and organization coach, learning facilitator, lean/agile certification trainer, and CEO/Founder of KnolShare.org. It allows an individual or team to create a six-month vision plan, with sections for mapping out their current state, goals, potential hurdles, and actions. These goals could be as simple as learning a new skill, or as complex as guiding a group of mentees through a career planning workshop.
Whether you’re completing this as a group or an individual, you can benefit from the debrief section, which offers discussion and reflection questions on the exercise. By reflecting on the experience, you’ll get a chance to learn from past hurdles and improve future performance. What did you discover
2. Survival Metrics Framework by Adam Thomas
One of the most difficult decisions you’ll face in your work is whether to continue, discontinue, or pivot a struggling product or service line. You don’t want to fall prey to the “sunk cost fallacy,” where you keep investing in a failing project despite evidence about its viability.
To lead you through this decision-making process, Adam Thomas offers the survival metrics framework. The template helps you document stakeholder conversations, metrics, and non-negotiables to see all the data in one place. At the end, you’ll have quantified survival metrics and can make an informed decision about whether to invest resources, stop, or pivot a project.
The Survival Metrics template was Miro’s most-viewed creator template in June — earning Thomas the coveted Creator of the Month spot.
3. The Ultimate Meeting Planner by Chris Butler
Chris Butler’s hot take is that meetings are good, actually. But a great meeting requires planning. Butler, “Chaotic Good” Product Manager at GitHub, created this template to help you set up impactful meetings. The components and steps in the template are:
- Gathering inputs, or information needed before the meeting
- Setting the meeting format and attendees
- Identifying outputs
- Reviewing and finalizing inputs
- Creating a meeting agenda
Completing this exercise helps to avoid wasted time, enhance decision-making, and boost employee engagement. The exercise itself takes 20 to 30 minutes. The results? Timeless.
4. GQM with Adverse Impact Mapping by John Tanner
John Tanner, CEO and Chief Strategist at C4G Enterprises Inc., created the Adverse Impact Mapping (AIM) template for Agile metrics. The template gives a framework to help you think through and document how single-mindedness — only focusing on one metric — can negatively impact an organization.
Tanner first employs the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) format to determine what is being measured and why. Here’s an example:
- Goal: Improve customer satisfaction and loyalty
- Question: How likely are customers going to recommend a product to a friend or family member?
- Metric: Net promoter score (NPS) of at least 9 out of 10
Tanner adds a dimension of looking at the potential adverse impact of the metric. For example, focusing exclusively on NPS for customer satisfaction can oversimplify customer feedback and doesn’t effectively predict customer behavior. To learn more about Tanner’s approach to Agile metrics, you can watch his Agile2024 interview here.
5. User Story Mapping by Sam Cho
A user story map is like a narrative that walks step-by-step with users on their journey, whether that’s completing a purchase or signing up for an account. You can visualize the user journey by framing your product, mapping the big picture, and identifying activities users undertake to reach their goal. This guide by Sam Cho walks you through the process of creating a user story map, from broad framing to specific user activities.
6. Value List by Temi Bolaji-Jegede
Ready to head to the playground? Executive coach Temi Bolaji-Jegede invites you to identify your values with play. The Value List template was the Miroverse’s standout social impact template in July.
“I was in a turmoil when I was not living a value-led life. But knowing and embracing my values has kept me grounded and focused,” shares Bolaji-Jegede.
With this template, each person can select stickies from a group of ones pre-populated with values like achievement, diversity, fun, or loyalty. Add them to your “Yes” or “Meh” square, then reflect in detail with a retro.
7. Imposter Syndrome – Team Workshop by Tjay Gerber
Agile coach Tjay Gerber’s goal in his Agile2024 session “Imposter No More: A Playbook for Agile Confidence” was to build up confidence in teams. The takeaway was the Imposter Syndrome – Team Workshop template, which helps team members identify, acknowledge, and manage imposter syndrome in under an hour. Gerber incorporates psychological safety concepts and practical tips with time split between individual and group reflection.
Make sure to check out Gerber’s other popular template, Lean Coffee: Meetings without Agendas.
8. Imposter Syndrome – Scrum Master Workshop by Tjay Gerber
Do you ever find yourself mired in imposter syndrome? This impacts professionals at all seniority levels and can prevent you from embracing your full potential. In his second talk of Agile2024, Gerber covered imposter syndrome for scrum masters and Agile coaches. By running this workshop, you’ll help yourself and your team identify, acknowledge, and manage imposter syndrome by sharing personal experiences and learning from each other.
9. Become a Facilitation MasterChef #Agile2024
If facilitating gives you stress, this one’s for you. Maria Chec — Agile coach and creator behind the Agile State of Mind newsletter and YouTube channel — introduced Become a Facilitation MasterChef at Agile2024. This Miro template is your ultimate guide to designing and conducting workshops that drive real results.
Below, see Chec’s board walkthrough and learn how to put it to use.
Video embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsiXMtYdnUc
Whether you’re looking to foster creativity, solve complex problems, or align your team around a common goal, this template offers a structured yet flexible approach to turn your facilitation sessions into direct impact.
10. Bonus Template: Inventor Trivia by Catherine Louis
This one’s a bonus template that surfaced during Agile2024: Catherine Louis’ thought-provoking game of inventor trivia.
The 10-question quiz tests participants’ knowledge of the lesser-known origins of common inventions, all while promoting women’s contributions to the tech world. Participants learn about uncredited female inventors, plus 10 contemporary women making a significant impact in the industry today.
Thanks to all the Agile2024 speakers for their presentations and for these templates to take their learnings home.
