Examples of your Whiteboards

[John Funk]

I am a visual learning and not very creative sometimes - more of an analytical mind. I would love to see some screenshots of some of your whiteboards (without disclosing sensitive data, of course!) to give me some good ideas of actual usage. 

Thank you in advance!

[Lucas Modzelewski _Lumo_]

We use whiteboards for running sprint retrospectives (from template), which makes the process a bit more fun compared to simply filling out a Confluence page.

We've also used whiteboards for brainstorming new app ideas. We set up some categories, and then anyone could add their ideas. Previously, we used a different app with better mind-mapping features (like creating linked items), which made it easier to explore ideas in more depth.

[Robert Hean]

Here's an example of a (very) simple process - this is one of the main usecases I happen to have for Whiteboards (before this I'd use Vizio or Lucidchart).

I try to standardize what the shapes mean (e.g. circle is the start, diamonds are decisions, etc).

I also use them quite a bit for system mapping (incomplete as it's just an example). I find doing this visually, and having it in the same structure as other documentation, makes it very easy for new folks to get spun up.

[Amanda Barber]

My favorite whiteboard we've made is probably from our Roles and Responsibilities play. Here's a little preview:

https://app.screencast.com/1xUJhEA05vzcS

We've revisited it twice and it's about time to check in again. I like that we can keep our iterations!

[Aaron Pavez _ServiceRocket_]

Thanks, Amanda. That helped me to understand better how to use whiteboards.

[Valerie Knapp]

I tried to create a whiteboard or better, I created a whiteboard thinking I could use it as a homepage to signpost to other tools, for a client requirement. But, I didn't really manage to do anything...

The customer requirement was (ideally) while remaining in the same product to be able to edit Jira objects, have a high level overview and links to other tools, like PowerBI. I knew the Jira part was unlikely but I was really surprised I couldn't create links within the different text boxes. Am I missing something? Then, I didn't really find any documentation to help me so I wouldn't exactly recommend to use whiteboards, at least not yet anyway.