Miro changed our way of running Retros
October 01, 2023

Miro changed our way of running Retros

Cătălin Gheorghe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

We usually use Miro for our Sprint Retros, Quarterly Planning, Post Mortem sessions and for drafting new ideas/tech diagrams, HLDs, etc.
It's a tool were we can easily share our thoughts in teams and we can play easily with the team members allocation via specific project and teams. It also integrates with Jira and has a lot of perks that we use on the boards that we find very useful, like: timer, music, voting, raise hand, etc

Pros

  • Easy to share the board with others
  • Plenty of pre-design templates to choose from depending in your need
  • Intuitive to use for any new member
  • Integrates easy with other tools that we use, like Jira

Cons

  • More diverse music when we use the timer on it. Maybe an YouTube plugin would work?
  • Less time spent on creating Sprint Retro board as it's easy to duplicate an existing one
  • More fun to use with the gif and emoticons plugins
  • Easy to zoom in and zoom out so more space can be used on the board and easily navigate through it when presenting to an audience
As mentioned earlier, we use Miro for our remote squads, and we found very easy to onboard new teams and new members in Miro.

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

Miro is best suited for us in terms of running a Sprint Retrospective or any other Retrospective as it can be easily shared with the others and we can vote on the cards at the end of the writing session and talk about the most voted ones. The action items can be easily transformed into Jira tickets and followed up later.

We do not use it for Sprint Planning, we are still using Jira for it. Also we do not use it for documentation as Confluence is still the main took for us to document things.

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