Help others understand what goals can they achieve.
Teams use MURAL to work through challenges together. Your template could have exactly what a MURAL member needs to solve challenges and innovate. Before you begin to build your template, make sure you’ve defined why your template exists.
Ask these key questions to set up for success:
Once you identify the purpose, summarize it with a short description that introduces your template to that audience. In this summary, ask yourself: why should someone care to use this method? What’s the benefit this template provides to the audience?
This description will belong at the top left of your template to inform the audience when they preview your template in the library.
Here are a few examples to spark your inspiration:
Work Life Impact Play Template by Atlassian
The Work Life Impact "Play" is a workshop created by Atlassian as a way to build empathy and identify the right support for your team through changing work experiences.
Use the Lean Procurement Canvas to source a new partner/service/product, set up a new agile product development team, assess an existing partnership, and manage your partnership.
Rapidly map your ideas, observations or projects and uncover new perspectives and connections.
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When designing a template, I usually start with a desired outcome and then work backwards to see what steps I need to take in order to achieve my desired outcome. For example, if I want to know what to do next in a project, I might start with identifying what are the challenges servants are facing right now? What is preventing us from moving forward?
Then generates, a couple of ideas for solutions on how we might overcome those challenges. We can prioritize those ideas to define which one would have the biggest impact and with the least effort. And then we should end up with a list of action items that will help us achieve our goal. So, start thinking about what the desired outcome should be over your template.
Think about what the goals you want to deliver but also think about the specific artifacts. What is the actual content you would like to have at the end of completing the activities? Each template is designed to help you achieve a different intention or different outcome. Let's look at a couple of them and discuss what those might be.
The Get to the Bottom of the Stack Template is created to help you generate a large quantity of ideas in a short amount of time. And the outcome you would have after finishing this template would be the ideas that you came up with. The Blueprint Template is created to help you understand your customer's experience with your service or product and help you identify where the pinpoints are so that you can improve and come up with some ideas for actionable solutions.
The outcome of the Project Planning Template is to help your team align on what the goal of your project is, how you would measure success, who will participate and what the costs are. The goal of the Product Planning Template is to help your team align on what the project goals should be, how you will measure success, who will participate, cost and other key items that you need to consider when planning for a project.
