Item: Miro
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Miro to: collaborate, brainstorm, facilitate meetings, present ideas create flowcharts and diagrams. Miro very effectively facilitates collaboration in groups of 5-20 individuals. It's a useful tool for sharing and developing ideas with a small group; it's very convenient that at the end of the meeting, we retain the board and can refer back to it as an interactive record of what happened -- much better than having a notetaker! I really appreciate the tool for the above reasons. In addition, it is also useful for creating flowcharts and diagrams for software engineering architecture. The tool is quite flexible. I don't often elect to use it for my individual tasks, but I often refer to Miro boards that colleagues have created or during live collaboration sessions that they have initiated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Creating flowcharts for software architecture.
Facilitating ideation sessions with 3-20 users.
For meetings during which it was used, acting as notes after the meeting has ended.

Cons

Each user of a shared board should be automatically assigned a color.
Hovering over an item on the board should display the user who created it -- there should be some method to quickly identify which user created each item.
The UI is great, but for some reason, right-click+drag to move around the board still feels unintuitive to me.

Return on Investment

I would estimate that a brainstorming session with 10 participants becomes 3x more efficient in terms of how much each participant is able to communicate to the others when Miro is used.
I would estimate that a meeting with 5 participants is 15-20% more efficient because a designated note-taker is not necessary when Miro is used.

Implementation Rating

I did not participate in implementation; but it is extremely frictionless for an organization to begin using Miro, to my understanding.

Ease of Integration

Not yet integrated into any other products within our company, to my knowledge.

Collaboration

We are a primarily remote organization, and we find the tool extremely useful. In many cases, I think a collaboration session with Miro is more productive than an in-person meeting with a whiteboard.

Key Insights

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Microsoft Powerpoint and Google Slides

I think Miro shares some use cases with Powerpoint or Google Docs/Slides, and it is really superior in terms of facilitating collaboration.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, Zoom

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is really fantastic for facilitating meetings with approximately 5-20 participants. I would recommend it heartily for this reason, but I believe nearly every company in my industry is already using it, so I'm not sure when I'll have that opportunity. Miro is also quite useful for creating engineering diagrams and flowcharts, but it lacks some features that would make it a really exceptional tool for these tasks. Because it is so widely used in tech companies, maybe it makes sense to make it even more attractive to this audience.

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Fantastic and near-revolutionary product for facilitating remote meetings.