Miro as an essential product management tool.
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
Map out strategy; design customer experiences for our customer support chatbot; team planning; roadmap creation. The need is to have a collaboration tool where our product management team, usually 5-20 people, come together online (we're all in different locations) and do a creative exercise. In these exercises, whether it's to comment on a design or brainstorm on a feature map, there's a need to gather input from multiple participants and identify themes/priorities/ etc. What makes Miro effective is the ability to use colorful stickies, beautiful templates, stickers, and other tools to make the process easy to follow and inviting to participate. Moreover, there's no limit due to a "page size" -- the work can keep flowing and stay organized.
Pros
- Drag and drop shapes, easy to change colors, fonts and sizes.
- Organize content by frames.
- Templates to use for roadmaps, plans, strategies.
Cons
- It's so difficult to know what I'm entitled to with my license, especially if I'm accessing a board through someone else's link. I believe I have an enterprise license and own/edit more than three boards. My team has more than three boards. All of a sudden, I'm flagged as having a free version, and one of my boards is locked as "read-only." I have no idea what to do to restore my entitlement. I've logged out and logged back in.
- Using projects to manage multiple boards is good, but somehow, the dashboard feels like a mess. It's not clear who on my team is actively doing what on which board. I'm not suggesting a new scheme; I'm just saying the current scheme isn't very good.
- I hate not knowing the terms of my account, who my team is, and where it's all managed. Frustrating!
- Positive: we are managing Agile processes and Agile team scope with Miro.
- Positive: We are able to easily design and review customer experiences for our digital processes, which is critical for product management.
- Positive: Miro allows our virtual team to start with and organize unstructured thoughts and scenarios. It will enable us to get to an organized structure with high participation.
Miro is heavily used to collaborate among remote workers on new and existing projects. Our primary mode is to collaborate virtually online. We are using Miro for Product Management, particularly its creative aspects. We are not using it for sharing progress, status, or tracking issues. I would not expect to use Miro for these structured, administrative management tasks.
Miro is visually appealing, very inviting, and easy to use for the most part. It has all the drawing tools to connect shapes, create aligned diagrams, change colors, establish a layout, and color them. You can quickly change font sizes. In our meetings, teammates are very willing to follow along on 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

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