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One of the BIGGEST Mistakes Teams Make When Building Apps
Imagine this, you have a idea for the world’s next great application. You have raised the money you need, found a team, and developed a brand. You are on your way to success, right? Well… not exactly. Many teams find...
How to use Emojis in CardBoard
In CardBoard, you can place emojis on your boards and modify them. Share feedback, express your emotions, and visualize your thoughts and ideas by using favorite emojis on your online whiteboard. To add an emoji into your board Head up...
Using Roadmap Templates in your Online Whiteboard
The vision has been cast, the planning done, what is next? A product roadmap helps teams determine what will be delivered and a timeline for it. A product roadmap is a template that provides a visual for the big components needed to...
Using online whiteboards to improve your Zoom experience
As entire organizations are moving to digital working environments, online meeting spaces are increasing in use and popularity. Companies have found how tough it can be to keep members engaged and feel a part of the bigger...
The Hybrid Work Model is Changing How Teams Work
What is the Hybrid Work Model – Over the past year the Hybrid Work Model has become a hot topic at companies across the world. With a new generation of talent flooding the market, they also bring with them a progressive approach to...
How to choose an online whiteboard that’s right for you
The use of online whiteboards has really become prevalent over the past year due to the covid pandemic. People need to replicate the experience of working together visually at a whiteboard in a new digital way. There are countless...
5 Ways Your Team Can Benefit From an Online Whiteboard
Employees of organizations both big and small are opting into working from home and to remote work situations. In the recent past it was an expectation for teams to be placed into an office space where they were easily accessible...
Spring 2021 Release
Tons of features and improvements to enhance your digital white-boarding experience...
Say hello to our NEW logo
As we have refreshed our tool, we’ve launched our new logo. We decided it was best to say goodbye to the old logo that became a staple for our tool. Although the two color, CARDBOARD, typeface became what we’ve come to know and love,...
Using Shapes in CardBoard
The Shape selector allows you to change cards into various shapes that can be used for flowcharting diagramming and for several other purposes within your digital whiteboard. To add a shape: Drag and drop a card onto your board. Right...
Network Diagramming with CardBoard
Mapping out your network and all the elements it interacts with can be done using networking diagram and digital whiteboard tool like CardBoard. Here’s an in-depth look at network diagrams and how you can build your own in...
Card Resizing
Within the CardBoard application you may need to resize cards for various reasons. Perhaps you need fit more information on the front of the card, or different sized cards may denote different things depending on your team’s structure....
CardBoard has an uptime of 99.99902% in 2020
Like most of you, I returned to work this Monday morning (Jan 4th) only to find out that Slack was down....
How to hold 4 Ls Retrospective
What is a 4 Ls Retrospective? At the conclusion of a sprint, the 4 Ls Retrospective is designed to bring clarity to what your team liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. This exercise exists to understand what did and did not work...
How to Prioritize Agile Stories
Using a problem based approach to assign priority One of the biggest steps after you’ve planned and mapped out your product is the prioritization phase. This is crucial to agile planning. The prioritization phase refers to when...
Notifications
Need to see what you missed while away? In CardBoard, you will receive notifications when team members tag you in board comments and card comments. Vice versa, you can tag team members in board and card comments and they will receive...
Change Board Colors
You can change the background color of your board. You can choose from a Light or Dark theme, or select from a handful of colors. To change the background color of your board: Head up to the setting icon within your board In the the...
How to Make a Mind Map
Mind mapping is quick way of getting information out of from your brain and in front of your team. Mind Mapping is a unique solution to map out the ideas and connect thoughts....
Card Connections
Card Connections in a CardBoard are an additional way to increase shared understanding. Card Connections allow you to connect arrows to cards to create dependencies or adds additional template options in CardBoard such as mind maps,...
Collapsing and Expanding Horizontal Dividers
Horizontal dividers can be used for many things within CardBoard. One of which is for slicing out release to prioritize tasks and establish an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)....
Webinar: Introduction to User Story Mapping
Building products can be tough, the proper planning can ensure your products are their best. In this webinar, we break down the concepts and methods behind User Story Mapping and how it can help your business reach its goals. We will...
Three trends for 2020
As more team members work remotely, finding visual collaboration tools will become vital for teams With more workers switching from working in cubes to working remotely, finding tools to help with the collaboration process will become...
How any business can benefit from User Story Mapping
If you were to do a Google search on the term User Story Mapping you might be led to believe that the theory and practice for is reserved for technology experts and those involved in software. ...
4 Tips for Better Collaboration
Working with teams can be highly rewarding, yet extremely challenging. Collaboration is fundamental piece to scaling business and building the best products on the market, in the least amount of time. We’ve gathered feedback from...
What Makes a Great Scrum Master?
Managing your team and being the voice of accountability is tough. Being a great scrum master is even more challenging. What does it take to be a GREAT scrum master?...
Using Custom Annotations
We’ve added a new feature to customize your boards even more. CardBoard now supports custom annotations. Annotations provide a clear visual to the front of your cards to give your board more ways to collaborate real-time,...
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and User Story Mapping
SAFe includes practices and principals for large scale software development efforts. The intent is to scale what works for smaller teams for the larger enterprise by using agile and lean practices. The goal is to use processes like...
WEBINAR: 10 Features to Get More Out of CardBoard
UPDATED: YOU CAN NOW WATCH THE RECORDED PLAYBACK BELOW Topic: 10 Features to Help you get More Out of CardBoard Description: In this webinar, we go over several features in CardBoard that will turn you into a pro! CardBoard is the...
How to Use Assigned To Feature
Assigning tasks to your team is an additional way to organize projects and increase shared understanding in your team. To assign a card: Open a Card by clicking the top right corner of a card You will see the assigned to section within...
New Folders and My Boards
After creating several boards, you might come to the realization that you wished you had a better way to organize your boards. We have a solution! In CardBoard, you can create folders to better organize your content. CardBoard was the...
Using Journeys in CardBoard
A user journey (or sometimes customer journey) is a series of steps your users go through to accomplish a task in your product/service. Several paths exist where your users will traverse through your app. Going through your...
Using Empathy Maps to Better Understand Your Customers
What is an Empathy Map? An empathy map is an additional template offered inside CardBoard that your team can use to gain deeper understanding and insight into your customers. Much like user personas, an empathy map also represents a...
Selective Sync with JIRA
With the new Selective Sync feature, you now have control over which cards you decide to sync with JIRA. It’s really simple. You use your mouse to select the cards, then right click on them and chose whether you want to sync them...
Using CSV files
How to import/export CSV files in CardBoard CardBoard supports CSV files. CSV files are intended to be CardBoard back up files that you can easily access as you transfer to new communities or accounts. Importing CSV files into...
How to: Add Collaborators
Adding collaborators is simple! Head up to the collaborators menu. Here you can open up your Collaborators Menu or use Share Link to copy a URL of your board to share with anyone including non-CardBoard users. Once you open the...
Hate Estimating? Try doing a User Story Map instead
There is no shortage of people who loathe estimating software projects. Business folks love certainty. They always want to know how much something is going to cost and how long will it take. Software Engineers, not so much. We’ve...
Addition to Templates: 5 More Templates for you!
We want to push our product beyond just providing User Story Mapping and in to a digital white-boarding space for you and your team. As a result we have added 5 more template offerings into CardBoard. Continue reading to see what...
Quick Create Cards
Adding cards to your board is the most frequently used feature in CardBoard. However, the larger your boards get, the further you have to drag cards on to boards, meaning more of your time is taken up. Our goal at CardBoard is to...
Changing the Font Size on Cards
Text too small on the cards or would you like to fit more content on the cards? Follow these simple steps to change the font size of the text on the cards: Sign in to your CardBoard account Open a board Click the settings icon Locate...
Free Text Updates!
You requested several enhancements to the Free Text feature, so we built it for you! Free text is now quicker to use and provides richer editing capabilities. Begin by dragging the Free Text icon on to your board. The look and feel of...
Freeze Top Row of Cards
As you build your story maps you may have noticed that your stories can get lost with their associated epics the larger your maps get. The top row of cards on a user story map is important. It is useful to keep the topmost cards on a...
NEW FEATURES: Spring Release!
We have been busy since our last big update, and now we are excited to share what we have come up with. From templates, to more integration possibilities with Trello, as well as new features to work smarter not harder, we made sure to...
Improvements to Voting
Getting feedback and the opinions of your team is very important when looking to get products to market. Your shared understanding and work flow matter to us. We’ve made some changes to the Voting feature. We improved the...
Welcome Trello Fans!
We know we have several customers who really like Trello. It’s really easy to use, doesn’t cost anything and is so versatile in its uses. The CardBoard team is proud to offer our Trello integration! We know integrating...
Adding Profile Photos with Gravatar
Did you know that you can add more personality to your CardBoard account using Gravatar's profile photo feature? It is quite simple!...
Make it Your Own with NEW Background Images
CardBoard now supports adding background images to your boards. Make your board your own with the new capability....
Local High School Students Use CardBoard to Innovate
Warren Central High School seniors, Garat Phelps, and Christian Holtsclaw were posed a problem. Students within the cosmetology department needed a more reliable way to track their hours throughout the school year to earn their...
Voting in CardBoard!
Getting feedback and the opinions of your team is very important when looking to get products to market. Your shared understanding and work flow matter to us. Therefore, we took the time to develop our voting feature! Read below to...
Opening Cards in CardBoard
If you use all of the features found within CardBoard you may notice something. Your cards can become populated with several different visual indicators that you aren’t sure what they all mean. Or you may find yourself...
Understanding Your Business Through the Business Model Canvas
You have a business idea. You need a plan. Here is a solution: the Business Model Canvas. You need a straightforward way to visualize and help you understand a business model. With a Business Model canvas you can be led through the...
Solve Problems and Create Solutions with: Opportunity Canvas
As a product manager you are faced with many challenges. In an ever growing economy you have to stay ahead of the curve to survive as a business. In order to do, you have to understand the business problems and see them in their...
Understanding Kanban and How It Can Increase Productivity
In the Japanese language Kanban is derived to mean a signboard, or more recognizably – a billboard. Within the world of productivity, business, and design it is a scheduling system comprised of 3 parts: So what is the...
Introducing Templates in CardBoard
When building a product, the plan and active collaboration are two of the most important ingredients. We’ve added several templates to CardBoard to ensure that your organization is equipped to plan better and accomplish your...
User Story Mapping For Beginners
User Story Mapping allows for product managers, developers and designers to put a strategy behind the continuous complexity of product design and creating an awesome User Experience (UX). The technique was originally introduced by Jeff...
Modern Product Management techniques for today’s SaaS business
Managing a Software as a Service (SaaS) product can be quite a challenge, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. Perhaps the best thing you can do to lead your SaaS product is to use other SaaS products. Whenever you need to...
Hone in on the cards you really care about with Jira Filters
One of the hidden gems in CardBoard is that you can use Jira Filters to get to the cards you really want to see. User Story Mapping in Jira is even more beneficial when using Jira Filters. We’ve had several customers ask us...
Share your boards with Everyone!
With our Share Link feature, you can share your user story maps and online whiteboards with everyone. Even those that don’t have a CardBoard account. You’ll find it is super easy to get others involved by giving them a link via...
Say Hello to “Free Text”
You asked, we listened. The widely requested “Free Text” tool takes versatility in story mapping to a whole new level. It has universal functionality and is a handy tool for your building process. Let’s take a look at just a few of the...
The Summer Blend Release
Last month we overalled the UI and UX of CardBoard and this month we are introducing our Summer Blend Release. We love Agile, User Story Mapping and have several new features for you to try out. Add comments to your cards You can now...
Improve Collaboration with Comments
Here at CardBoard, we believe collaboration is necessary in order to be successful. That’s why we make it as easy as possible to collaborate with your team in CardBoard. In your board, you can add comments on your stories...
Introducing the all new CardBoard
Today, we are releasing our biggest CardBoard update yet. We talked to several of you to learn what it is you need next. During development, the questions we kept asking ourselves are: What do our customers need, and What can we do to...
How to build better products with User Story Mapping
User Story Mapping is a simple technique that can help discover what you really need to build. It encourages telling a story and visualizing what the experience “feels” like through your customers eyes. It a great way to...