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What is Mural?

MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) from Tactivos (DBA MURAL) in San Francisco is described by the vendor as a digital workspace and visual collaboration tool, designed for creative teams to make the process of design more efficient for distributed teams, working remotely.

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Screenshot of the brainstorming templates that brings more minds to the table and helps turn good ideas into extraordinary work.
Screenshot of energizers and icebreakers that help teams feel connected and open-minded so they can tackle big problems.
Screenshot of strategic plan sharing, to improve people's sense of safety and expectation, leaving more brain space for creativity and innovation.
Screenshot of retrospectives, which help teams get better and happier over time.

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Screenshot of the brainstorming templates that brings more minds to the table and helps turn good ideas into extraordinary work.

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Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.

Valerio AlbaView profile
Value Streams Transformation Lead in Product Management at Stellantis N.V. (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.Mural is the tool that allows you to express yourself and what you want to communicate, adapting to your needs and those of others. It is not just a tool, but an important means of synchronous and asynchronous interaction and communication. It can be used both for personal reasons (organising trips, activities, book reviews, study notes) and for professional reasons in teams and to support entire organisations.

Pros

  • Brainstorming session
  • Training Sessions
  • Visualize processes

Cons

  • Administrator panel
  • Home page items visualization
  • Mural board external links for sharing

Return on Investment

  • Imagine the customer needs thanks the visualization techniques
  • Aksing directly to the customers building prototypes in Mural

Easy to use and powerful, Mural is a GO!

Incentivized
François LavalléeView profile
president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When the pandemic started , all my clients asked me to continue the facilitation work on Zoom. At the time , Zoom did not have any comprehensive tools to interact apart form Polls and the camera. Mural proved invaluable to allo us to share information and create lively and dynamic sessions.
This tool is too awesome!
Almost no limit to our creativity. Some clients even "complained" that they will never go back to face to face brainstorming sessions b cause this proved to be so helpful!!

Pros

  • Brainstorm sessions
  • Voting directly on the board
  • allowed to rapidly copied what used to be done manual on post its
  • Less work for our admin assistant ...no retrancriptIon!
  • Easy to capture part of the board and create slides

Cons

  • Som commands used to be less intuitive that expected
  • Especially at the beginning of the pandemic , clients had to be taught
  • Some clients just do not get how to work with this, short video tutorial directly available on the board might be useful

Return on Investment

  • Very positive.
  • Very affordable
  • Instant Roi as our admin does not have to retranscribe anything
  • To need to decipher bad calligraphy!
  • Forces facilitators to better prepare!

Alternatives Considered

Trello, Miro, Kahoot! and Slido

Other Software Used

Miro, Trello, Slido, Kahoot!

A great whiteboarding software for any team in any industry

Steve BassetteView profile
Manager, Enterprise Applications in Information Technology at Pilot Travel Centers (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Several of our teams used MURAL to help us planning and organize our work in our sprints and plan our roadmaps. Planning and organization tools like Jira are too process oriented with too many distracting features to be very usable so we shifted to white boarding tools. At our peak usage, we used MURAL pretty intensely to collaborate in synchronous meetings, asynchronous plannings, and design. Ultimately, we replaced it with a more cost efficient option, but overall I found it a great tool.

Pros

  • It is Lightweight and Stays out of the way
  • It feels informal like a white board
  • It easy to use
  • Adding consistent sticky notes is easier than others
  • It is easy to change sticky note shapes
  • No embedded data to accidentally lose
  • The Inking works well
  • Linking within boards is really smooth

Cons

  • Frames cannot be nested
  • It was easy to move notes while panning
  • Lines sometimes go crazy
  • It is sometimes laggy (especially when working with Indian teams)

Most Important Features

  • Lightweight
  • Accessibility
  • Easy

Return on Investment

  • Improved planning throughput
  • Reduced communication costs
  • Increased conversation
  • Increased topic understanding

Alternatives Considered

Miro, Lucidspark and FigJam

Usability

Honest MURAL review! (The go-to collaboration tool)

Incentivized
Madhu Mundra
Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Cloudwerx (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The MURAL is a great online collaboration application for our team and many other teams in our organization. We being a team of developers, BA, Product owners troubleshoot any functionality together on MURAL's whiteboard together due to it being online and easily available, and being easy to use. MURAL is used across the whole organization as I have worked on many projects and can see MURAL being used everywhere and even I use to with my team for collaborating with my team and designing any solution.

Pros

  • MURAL greatly helps in designing phase of a project
  • It has different frameworks to define different personas, Scenario maps, hills.
  • Can add own customized image by uploading them on MURAL
  • MURAL's integrated chat service is another great feature it has.

Cons

  • MURAL hardly has any integration with other apps so that can be improved.
  • More shapes or options
  • Sometimes a little slow

Most Important Features

  • Online interactive and engaging brainstorming/collaboration with the team
  • MURAL has ready-to-use templates for everything to seamless design
  • It gives ideas on the go and provoke thought process as a whole for the team working on it

Return on Investment

  • It has greatly increased the productivity of the team which in turn increase the productivity of the whole organization
  • MURAL definitely has hands in increasing the business for the organization by increasing productivity.
  • MURAL has greatly helped in personal growth as well since it boost ideas while brainstorming.

Alternatives Considered

Lucidchart and Lucidspark

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), Microsoft Teams, Slack, Atlassian Confluence, Bitbucket, Zoom, FinancialForce PSA, Bonusly, greytHR

feedback

Incentivized
Burcu Ihtiyar
Product Design/Development Engineer in Engineering at Ford Otosan (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Following the team retrospective meeting, collecting feedback, creating voting section

Pros

  • Voting scrum master or product owner
  • collecting feedback about last sprint
  • creating teamhealth checkup section

Cons

  • page scrolling
  • zooming
  • mention people

Most Important Features

  • Feedback collection
  • Team retrospective
  • Teamhealth checkup

Return on Investment

  • collecting feedback
  • Creating funny meeting notes area
  • Retrospective

Alternatives Considered

Trello

Other Software Used

Trello, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Board Series

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