Great brainstorming environment for online teams

We use Miro during our team-wide brainstormings and retrospective sessions. Our team is split into different countries, so we use this kind of virtual environment to get together more easily. We also recently started using it for planning sprints in each sub-team such that we can still see the plans of our colleagues in other sub-teams

We mostly have used template-free charts for brainstorming and planning. For example making a table where every row belongs to a sub-team, and every person from that sub-team puts there their tasks using sticky notes. We color-code the notes based on the current status of the task, and add arrows if necessary to indicate dependencies or relationships between tasks.

We concurrently use monday.com and Miro for retrospective meetings. We use the former for keeping track of the ongoing / closed / todo tasks and the latter for the brainstorming phase. The only unfortunate thing is that we haven't figured out a way to automate the transfer of tasks between the two softwares.

Our team does not collaborate with external organizations through Miro, but we use it to bridge the distance gap between the different locations of the members of our team.

Probably all the same