Item: Miro
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it on several occasions: when we are scoping new initiatives so everyone can easily add their ideas and concerns; when we want to share system architectures or explain some implementations through flow charts; also, we use it for retrospective meetings where we discuss what we did well in the past weeks and what can be improved. We find it really useful, especially for brainstorming ideas that need discussion among several people.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Clean UI - easy to understand.
Has enough tools for multiple IT use cases.
Works smoothly when several people are in.

Cons

Formatting sticky notes is possible but it's not easy to find out how.
Integrate with some platforms e.g., AWS that we could easily drag the icons from AWS Services.
Have more types of music.

Return on Investment

Reduced time spent on meetings.
Easy way to store projects' context.
Improved productivity overall between developers and management.

Ease of Integration

It's easy to follow the steps needed to create integrations and the UI is really clean. The fact that we don't have to add a lot of inputs and we just need to follow the flow, it makes us feel safer that we're doing things correctly. Also, the inputs and images are really helpful.

Collaboration

We work mainly remote and it makes it a lot easier to gather everyone's opinions and share ideas. There are features that are really great when working in groups, for instance, the voting one. We normally use it to choose what needs to be discussed or what should be the priorities.

Key Insights

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Miro's feature set?

Yes

Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Alternatives Considered

Lucidchart

Miro is cleaner and easier to use for more general discussions. However, Lucidchart offers more diagram options. It has a lot of the designs used to create more specific diagrams used in Computer Science. It also has some integrations that I find useful. However, it's harder to use for non-tech people.

Other Software Used

Lucidchart, Microsoft Power BI, Lucidspark

Likelihood to Recommend

As said before, Miro is great when you need to discuss some ideas among several people. It's really used to show what's thinking just by dragging a sticky note, for instance. It's also great to build architectural designs and flow charts because the UI doesn't have limits/constraints, and you can feel that freedom. It's probably less appropriate when you need to create specific diagrams formally (e.g., sequence diagrams, activity diagrams).

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Miro makes remote work really easy.