Top-of-the-line Digital Collaboration Tool
March 01, 2023
Top-of-the-line Digital Collaboration Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
I use (and encourage clients to use) Miro as a collaborative tool for a whole host of activities to support team productivity and coordination across larger programs. I have used it for Agile team facilitation, project planning, workshop/demo facilitation, presentation building, and just getting my ideas organized around sticky problems in visual ways.
Pros
- The catalog of pre-built templates and content examples is hugely helpful as a time saver and to inspire layout creativity
- Meeting facilitation tools such as timers, voting, and seeing everyone's cursor on the board add a level of engagement that makes remote meetings feel more "present"
- Input controls are smooth, intuitive, and include a lot of QoL features like grid snapping, alignment tools, and shape/flow copy tools that make usage feel like magic once you are used to it!
Cons
- Memory usage and performance could potentially be improved, I understand its a tough problem to solve with all the content but certainly the browser app and sometimes the desktop app run slow
- Would love to see a custom tutorialization tool for boards! where the board owner could build out an experience where someone accessing the board for the first time gets "shown around" to the different frames and Miro buttons/tools that they will need to be familiar with to participate
- On the largest project I used Miro on, my team saw an almost immediate uptick in productivity and shared understanding of our goals following some collaborative work on a team board. We organized our agreements, priorities, and product vision in a central place that people could refer to and it got everyone on the same page
- On the same large project, we also used Miro for increment planning every 6 weeks, coordinating dependency and priority mapping across 7 teams. The resulting board was then used for check-ins and progress mapping over the increment and kept the teams aligned on status and dependencies visible and addressed. I don't think we could have made the progress we did without Miro holding the teams together!
I wrote about this above, but at one point we had a 7-team program collaborating via a combination of Miro and Jira that was really really smooth...each team had their own Miro and Jira board, and then we used a big collaboration Miro board to facilitate cross-team planning, risk, and dependency mapping. It worked great and kept the whole program very productive for years
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
- Lucidchart and MURAL
I was introduced to Miro first so I am a bit biased here, but I have found Miro to be comparable to other digital whiteboarding tools in terms of content/visual creation, but surpassing others when it comes to collaboration and co-working support and tools
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