Author: Gabor Daher

The Miro application for the unFIX Plotter has just made its way to the Miro Marketplace, so it should be easier than ever to visualize your Bases. This post is here to help you get started.

The unFIX what?

Do you remember the time when you wanted to draw your first Value Stream Crew? How easy it was to imagine drawing that yellow rectangle on a black circle.

Do you also remember the feeling when reality kicked in, and you’ve realized that they expect you to copy and paste shapes from bloody PowerPoint slides?

unFIX Plotter

Let’s look at our browser based application first, in case you haven’t seen it yet. The concept should be fairly straightforward; we sign up to add our Bases, Value Streams, Crews, Forums and Turfs.

Let’s assume we want to draw a software agency, named ACME. We’ve all been there, right? Teams (Value Stream Crews) work on realizing loosely aligned customer projects, while other Crews (project managers, AI gurus, DevOps and data scientists) do their best to help them.

Many times there are forums where members of the Base discuss tech- and business related topics, so these inevitably become Forums.

Let’s get started by adding these Crews and Forums:

Once we are done with the initial setup, let’s head over to the Chart tab where we will see our Base.

Feel free to rearrange and resize elements on the canvas, for example to indicate where the AI team is helping out.

We can also edit, add or delete new elements from here, so we don’t have to go back to the editor (unless we want to of course).

Pro tip: Among the settings you can show or hide layers, resize the canvas, and so on. So if you would like to arrange more than ~10 crews, I suggest you increase the canvas height.

2. Fill the Base with Life!
So the Base is there, but without people it’s just an empty shell. If we would like to fill our Base with life, we can click the Members tab, where we can start adding our teammates, and distributing them among the Crews and Forums. Remember: a person can be a member of multiple Crews.

Do you prefer a more granular setup of team memberships? You can even set membership details, like Participation Levels, Time Commitments and Role Attributes on the Team and Forum details page. So head back to the editor, open the side menu of a Crew and select the “Details” option.

The Miro App

While the web application makes the initial sketching very easy, we realize that it can be limiting in the long run. Fortunately there are amazing tools out there that unchain your creativity, and we believe that Miro is one of those tools.

So after installing the unFIX Plotter application from the Marketplace (and logging in), you can simply drag and drop any of your Bases to a Miro board.

The Future looks bright!

We don’t stop here, new features can be expected frequently. Until then, please share your feedback on the community channels, so we can improve these tools even further.