Case Study: Bonial Labs achieves 3.5× per-person productivity and seamless PI planning with Miro

How to organize Program Increment Planning in a distributed team

Bonial Labs, a product organization of about 125 people across 15+ teams (with roughly 25 remote members), faced scaling challenges running Program Increment (PI) planning: physical boards and sticky notes were too small and slow to set up, remote participants couldn’t fully engage, and cross-team dependencies and alignment were hard to manage. To support distributed PI planning and connect remote team members, Bonial Labs adopted Miro’s online whiteboard for visual collaboration.

Using Miro, Bonial Labs ran week-long PI planning events with templates for milestones, story breakdowns, dependencies, risks and confidence votes, enabling real-time remote participation, faster setup and clearer alignment. With Miro’s support, Bonial Labs reported a 3.5× increase in per-person productivity versus 2015 while doubling headcount and achieving roughly seven-times higher velocity over three years, along with reduced waste (no paper) and fewer surprises during execution.

Bonial Labs

Torben Voßgröne

Head Product Engineering