Item: Miro
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Miro is in wide spread use throughout our organization. For the most part it is being used as a white board online collaboration tool. I find it easy to mock up product plans, throw in some ad-how designs, and even create high level functional diagrams for workflows or a product idea. Where it excels is in allowing the integrated collaboration for multiple users to work off the same board and share ideas in real time.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Online white board solution
Enables collaboration for remote product, design, and development teams
Presentation platform

Cons

Onboarding - A first time user will have some learning curve in understanding all the features
Managing free versus paid version offerings better
Expand offline feature capabilities and connectors to relevant platforms

Return on Investment

Miro allows you to speed up product prototypes and eventual product releases
Serves as a simple middle man application in product management teams to help drive efficiency
Bridges the gap of technical, design, and development resources with easy to use controls and functions

Ease of Integration

We had a very positive experience with integrating it with Microsoft product and Teams usage. The connection to Microsoft OneDrive takes the platform to the next level. It has a host of capabilities but the one that will stick out is embedding boards, and retrieval of OneDrive sources. This connectivity fit right within our technology stack.

Collaboration

In our product management group, we live in Miro most of the day. It helps us drive idea sessions, and eventual extract into a product requirement and technical design. The ability to collaborate with teams that are remote by utilizing IM style tools is great but having Miro access and being able to share designs and boards while prompting for real time feedback within the tool itself really helps you speed up product development.

Alternatives Considered

Figma

Miro is much easier to use, and in my opinion focuses on product teams usage from a visual collaboration perspective in building out ideas and helping them come to life. When we look at Figma the primary driver is design focused for designers in your organization. Figma is better suited as a prototyping tool rather than a full featured collaboration, design, and board tool.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Figma

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is well suited in a product management group. It complements existing platform software that all product management teams use, and does a good job of not overlapping technology. Miro is also well suited for product marketing and design teams, because the default nature of a blank canvas where you can draw out ideas, document scope and feature functionality, and collaborate in real time with remote and in-office teams makes it a powerful tool.

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