Miro

I use Miro in my role as Communication Department Lead to help with a variety of tasks! I've created personas, mapped customer journeys, used SWOT analysis templates, and used it as a brainstorming space with teams. As I'm juggling supporting multiple sites and internal and external communication, ranging from practicalities to production briefs, any tool that can help wrangle it all is a huge help! And Miro has been a great tool.

• Reduced production time of a project by making prep more efficient.
• Fostered inter-departmental clarity, reducing silo'd working.

Adobe Acrobat, Slack, Intuit Mailchimp

I use Miro for myself, my team and also in meeting with other teams for the following:

- Brainstorming - Before we tackle a project or a complicated task, we first map it out in Miro.

- Project management - We can have a whole project, along with its tasks and subtasks, briefs, goals and other resources all on one Miro board.

- Diagrams - Miro is our prime tool for diagramming, whether its mapping out a process or the map of our network.

• Streamlining cross functional workflows - for example, for project management: project ideation > brief > planning > tasks and subtasks + resources. All of these items can live on the same board.
• Tool consolidation - many collaboration, design, and productivity tools can be replaced by Miro
• Significant meeting reduction - teams can add deliverables, mark off completed tasks and access resources without meeting face-to-face on a schedule

FigJam and Canva

Canva, Figma, Freshservice

Miro allows us to achieve several different objectives, both internally and externally. We use it often for meeting notes, especially for project roadmaps and brainstorming. We also use it with clients to brainstorm, collect feedback, and prioritize components of their projects based on their goals and what's most important to them. We love the collaborative component to Miro. It makes it fun, engaging, and easy for both team members and clients to use, even if they're unfamiliar with the platform.

• This is one of those platforms where the entire team needs to be bought into it, or it doesn't function as intended. Once we achieved that, it's been a wonderful tool for brainstorming and project management internally.
• Surprisingly, Miro has not allowed us to reduce software; however, it's a worthwhile addition to our tech stack.
• Our team has Miro boards bookmarked, and we know exactly where to go when we have ideas or things that we want to add. It's great to know that we will receive notifications when that happens.

FigJam and ClickUp

ClickUp, Fathom AI, Slack

I regularly use Miro to help with sprint planning, workflow demonstrations, retros, feedback sessions, and presentations. Miro is a good way for me to visualize ideas and sprint vision, whether it is just for my manager in a one-on-one or a full group of stakeholders and team leads.

• Miro allows me to plan work for the future without having to reference tedious spreadsheets. This gives me better insight into workload forecasting.
• Just today, I was able to quickly put together a Miro to show a team member who was confused the workflow for a problem. The easy 'on-the-fly' tools let me create something quickly in real time.
• Flowcharts often get a bad rap because people think they are too complicated, but Miro lets me get more work done quickly than just using a doc or sheet.

Figma and draw.io

Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Canva

I am a product manager, we use Miro as a shared collaborative workspace for a lot of different use cases, such as product planning, discovery, brainstorm, cross-functional alignment, workshop facilitation, user interview, roadmap discussions, prioritization, retrospectives, etc. The main business problem Miro addresses is alignment challenges across product, design, engineering and business stakeholders by providing teams a visual and interactive way that can map ideas and workflows, especially for any complex problems-solving, which is more effective than static docs or slide decks.

• Increased team productivity
• Make communication more efficient and clear
• Effective team collaboration

Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor