Lucid Software Inc., a provider of visual collaboration software for teams, Thursday announced a new integration for its virtual whiteboard, Lucidspark, with Jira Cloud that’s aimed at enhancing how teams collaborate remotely.

Using Lucidspark Cards for Jira, teams will be able to plan and roadmap projects and identify potential roadmaps and bring ideas to mind. It uses a virtual whiteboard and corkboard with a drag-and-drop user interface that combines notes, drawings, arrows, polygons, emojis, graphics, ideograms and numerous other graphical elements.

Jira is project tracking software from Atlassian Corp. Plc designed to assist teams in managing workflows. By integrating it together with whiteboards such as Lucidspark, it can be used during the planning stage to turn notes into assignments that can then be assigned as issues and assigned to members.

With this integration Jira users can do two-way synchronization and publish across both applications, meaning that issues can be imported from Jira Cloud or exported as Cards from Lucid. Users can transform ideas captured on sticky notes into Jira issues using a single click and teams can tag assignees to Lucidspark Cards.

“In today’s age of remote work, technical teams need tailored solutions that provide the flexibility to promote collaboration, alignment and innovation,” said Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of Product Management at Lucid. “This integration will empower both Lucidspark and Jira users with the visual planning solutions to most effectively see and build the future.”

Since this is a virtual whiteboard, a team on a video call can watch the screen in real time and stay up-to-date and document ideas while doing brainstorming sessions remotely.

The idea is to visualize backlogs and dependencies without the need for a physical space to meet and, since it’s virtual, it can be backed up, wiped down, restored and used for training purposes later.

It’s even possible to use it for historical purposes or to track cross-team and cross-project work by keeping the big picture in a single view, according to Lucid.

Lucidspark’s interface provides a set of easy-to-use jump-start templates that include dot voting, a two-by-two matrix, a customer journey map, a roadmap to get teams started and a free signup. The company has published a detailed blog post about DevOps and Agile use cases.

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