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Fantastic Tool for Managing Deadlines and Keeping Track.
May 18, 2023

Fantastic Tool for Managing Deadlines and Keeping Track.

Alex Kupyna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Miro is my primary organizational tool for managing timelines on design projects. I work in a small team, and even though we use Adobe Workfront as our project management tool, Miro is much more useful to me in keeping track of deadlines. I work on approximately 10+ projects simultaneously, and things are constantly being moved around, so flexibility is absolutely key in management software. Miro does a great job in this, and the calendar template, in particular, is my daily lifeline. I can move around the sticky notes without entering dates into forms (like Workfront requires) and keep track of my monthly productivity from a high-level view.
  • Flexible movement of projects and details on the digital whiteboard space.
  • My manager and coworkers can easily view what I'm working on.
  • Easy connection to the website, it loads pretty fast, and I can stay synced from wherever as long as I log in.
  • The more sticky notes I use on my calendar, the longer it has been taking to load. That is understandable since that's a lot of content, but I imagine that's something long-time users will always run into as they do more on a board. Need more robust servers?
  • More stickers would be fun! I use them to mark tasks as complete, and I get bored using the same ones over and over again.
  • I primarily use the calendar template, and the one I used last year disappeared. I've changed to a different one for this year, but I'd like more choice of calendar templates specifically. I only found one last time I looked.
  • My projects fall through the cracks MUCH less often now. This was a perfect solution to my issue of getting overwhelmed with loose ends for projects, and now I keep better track of things.
  • Upper management can view my projects and progress without having a meeting with me, which saves time.
For me, it was really easy to understand Miro and I took to it intuitively. It's only my small design team that uses it now, not the whole company, but I imagine it would be fairly easy for most people to understand. I haven't used much of the sharing and collaborating functions, so I can't comment on that.
If, by integration, we say that I use Miro alongside other programs and software, then it was great, with no issues at all. I use Adobe Workfront to keep track of project creation and progress, and Miro helps me keep track of my actual work and progress without having endless entries to add to Workfront. Much simpler to just drag a sticky note, lol.
I haven't used Miro much on the collaborative part, other than having my manager view what I'm working on and be able to coordinate on deadlines, but that has been really useful just by itself. I can imagine that if we had the type of project that could be built in Miro, we'd consider this program first since we've had such success with just the deadline management portion.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Miro is easy to access online (doesn't have to download), has the exact function I need with well-built templates (calendar), and easily allows my manager to view my progress and calendar. It just seemed like the easiest thing that had all the aspects I needed, and I've had no serious complaints thus far. It's done well on the small things, and as my projects change in the future, I will be finding new ways to incorporate Miro into my workflow.
I've been recommending Miro to my coworkers that have a lot of project pieces to manage or lots of projects in general. It was recommended to me by a coworker as well, and so I am happy to spread the word about literally the only calendar tool I've ever stuck with for this long. It has the visibility of a physical calendar but the flexibility of digital copy/paste functions, haha. I don't use much other management software in my daily work, so adding Miro was worth it for sure, but other coworkers have expressed that they don't want to learn yet another thing to add to their list of programs to check every day. So if someone already has much software they use, I can see the hesitation to add Miro, too. It's definitely the only thing that keeps me on track, though, so I think it's worth trying, at least.