Miro

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What is Miro?

Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro's collaborative AI workflows keep teams in the flow of work, scale shifts in ways of working, and drive organization-wide transformation.

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Screenshot of Miro's design sprint templates, used to solve big challenges, create new products or improve existing ones.

Screenshot of the Sprint Planning features in Miro, that assists Development Teams in creating a transparent understanding of what can be built and how. Users can run sprints and turn a team into creative and active participants. Today, many organizations use Agile tools to manage software development and other non-IT projects.

Screenshot of the PI Planning Template that brings teams toward one vision of what stories to develop. Used to manage a backlog, increase productivity, and build the foundation for a successful PI Planning event. Miro’s PI Planning Template helps to get an overview of any PI Planning event, with step-by-step frames to guide the process.

Screenshot of diagrams, concept maps, and system mapping templates used to communicate complex flows and create a shared understanding. Users can check off all the essential steps of the diagramming process and gain a complete overview of operations with Miro's diagramming templates collection.

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Screenshot of Miro's design sprint templates, used to solve big challenges, create new products or improve existing ones.

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

24.9%

2,250 installations of 9,029

“We use it for out brainstorming session while discussing new projects and expansion projects.”
— SENIOR BUSINESS ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE, Ajeets (11-50 employees)

#2 most frequent

Information

16.4%

1,480 installations of 9,029

“Real-time collaboration with local and offshore teams.”
— DevOps Engineer, Ginger Webs (201-500 employees)

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

11.5%

1,034 installations of 9,029

“The tools I use most are notepads, calendars, the geometric figure maker, boards, emojis, GIFs, and comments.”
— Review of Miro's tool, Sicredi (10,001+ employees)

Yashwanthkrishna T S

Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Accession Consulting and Healthtech Private limited (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Miro, for my use case, has been one of the best tools for maintaining my team's collaboration and project planning. As a Senior Software Developer, my responsibility was to tackle major problems and analyze them with my team, which was a huge task that Miro helped me simplify. Miro has helped me a lot with my sprint planning by providing easy-to-use tools. The exchange of ideas among my senior managers, clients, and teammates has been smooth thanks to Miro.

Pros

Miro has provided an excellent platform for my team to collaborate on a single Canva board.
It gives me a visual roadmap and templates for tracking completed work and reaching my team's goals.
My development of complex tasks is easy to work with, as the discussion flows more smoothly.
Teams can present directly from boards during meetings without switching to another tool.

Cons

Miro is good, but something can be improved; the big board becomes slow sometimes.
It can also be confusing for new users because there are many options.
The mobile app is not very easy to edit.
Sometimes, too many people are editing at the same time, making the board messy and hard to follow.

Return on Investment

The ROI is that with Miro, you can save everyone's time, and if we save time, we can concentrate on other work.
Productivity increases as we save time, and decision-making becomes easier. As the productivity increases, the company will make more profit.
Cost-saving, as we are using other software, and after using Miro, we have stopped buying other tools unnecessarily.
I would say 60% of the work gets faster.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams, Zoho CRM and Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Notion, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Figma

Vinayak Kudva

Solutions Architect in Engineering at Vinyl Equity Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Miro to -

1. Document product features - Screens, DB Schemas, Business workflow documentation
2. Talktrack through our thought process to convey it to larger audiences
3. Use it as a single source of truth for all development processes down the line
4. Maintain product roadmap and track changes over multiple iterations
5. Document Flow and sequence diagrams

Pros

Good amount of tooling for us to express our ideas
Talktrack to walk others through our design and convey our thought process
Specially beneficial for remote teams and asynchronous working
Ability to search across boards and surface the results for easy search across my diagrams..

Cons

Opening up for AI integration.. As we want claude to go through Miro and understand it.

Return on Investment

Hard to measure it. We have single point of truth now, earlier we had to go through Notion Github etc..

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Excalidraw+

Other Software Used

Notion, GitHub, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Justin Braniff View profile

Project Management Team Lead in Professional Services at Stable Kernel (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For my role in project management, we use Miro for many different problems we are trying to solve. We use it very frequently for retrospectives and trying to solve process problems or looking for process improvement. We also use it for whiteboarding and brainstorming sessions to allow active communication and collaboration. On top of that, we use it for roadmapping and tracking of project status. There are several other use cases, but these are the predominant use cases for me in software project management.

Pros

Active collaboration between team members
Free form documentation to allow creativity
A library of templates so you are not starting from scratch

Cons

The AI components are just coming around, so still lacking, but getting better
When duplicating boards that are used frequently, having to go in and reset permissions each time is frustrating
I have multiple Miro accounts, and navigating between the two can be troublesome sometimes

Return on Investment

Miro has allowed teams to collaborate on process improvement and improve our ways of working
We use it for project planning too so we are able to keep multiple focus areas in one spot
As the AI components become more robust, I am sure we will be able to help utilize those for action items coming out of retros

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Canva and ProductPlan

Other Software Used

Slack, Atlassian Jira, Notion, Anthropic Claude

Tom Rochefort View profile

Founder and Learning Experience Designer in Corporate at Onward Learning Solutions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Miro is used to model business process workflows and to ideate potential UX improvements for both internal software and external solutions for clients. Generally. I use Miro across the business and its functional silos, including operations, marketing, finance, and sometimes HR. Miro was great for rapid prototyping and helped us optimize business processes for both efficiency and quality.

Pros

Rapid prototyping using drag and drop menus.
Collaborating across functional silos with relative ease.
Allows for seamless, organization-wide views of core processes and innovation tactics.

Cons

It looks somewhat hokey at times and can come off as a little cartoony.
Its singular focus can often be its drawback, given that it has multiple use cases, but those are often not explored with its core features.
It could be a bit more complex, which somewhat ties into my above point.

Return on Investment

Up to 5-10% faster speed to market for innovative ideas.
15-25% faster implementation of new dashboards and KPI screens.
0-5% increase in speed modelling workflows

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FigJam and Alcatel-Lucent OXO Connect

Hasan Raja Mohammad View profile

Associate Technical Consultant in Engineering at Kaptius India Pvt Ltd (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Miro tool is what we have implemented at our company as the online whiteboard, replacing the physical whiteboards we used in school. Through Miro, our team has successfully created structures for information using diagrams, flowcharts, and many other features. Instead of opting for the conventional method of using text-based tools like MS Word, we have chosen to use Miro for the same purpose. Such an approach will enable us to tackle problems within our organization, such as insufficient documentation and process descriptions. Our main use cases will involve flow design, ideation, requirements mapping, and systems architecture. This would be done through collaboration by aligning all participants on the context.

Pros

Workflow diagram and process mapping faster.
Turning difficult concepts into visualizations easily.
Minimizing reliance on document-based explanations.
Facilitating brainstorming and planning effectively.
Facilitating collaborative efforts remotely.

Cons

A new user might require some time to get familiar with all the features available.
Large and complicated boards might be challenging to control and affect collaboration.
Enhanced version history and changes will enable monitoring by the team effectively.
As Miro is based in the cloud, an internet connection is necessary for the application.

Return on Investment

Miro has helped increase productivity within teams because all the brainstorming, planning, and collaborative tasks can now be done within one tool.
Conversations about projects and decision-making processes are now quicker, allowing teams to plan and document their work much faster.
Working remotely has become much better because everyone can collaborate through Miro, eliminating communication gaps.
It has become easier to create documentation and follow up on meetings, saving time during the process.