Item: Miro
Rating: 8
Author: Zain Rehmtulla

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using Miro to create a design entrepreneurship project regarding climate change for grade 11 and 12 students. They were each given a Miro board in groups of 8 people. They were asked to create a financial plan, a storyboard, a script, and roles within the team (ceo, pitcher, financial planner, etc.)

Pros and Cons

Pros

Shows where everyone is on the board
Allows everyone to stay on task through timer and notifications
Easy to use the different features (change pen, put on music, etc.)

Cons

I think the timer disappears sometimes
It takes a long time to load
It lags once it loads

Return on Investment

Reduced project completion time
Improved collaboration/productivity
Excluded some members as they were not equipped with same technological ability to load Miro

Collaboration

Amazing. We had someone who was in Bangladesh and couldn't access most things including Zoom but Miro worked. Somehow Miro was able to bypass the outage. Moreover, it's easy to create a board and share it. Collaboration is fairly easy since we can clearly see one another's thoughts. I think there is a chat feature but that was hard to utilize. Moreover, exporting the content was a challenge to see the finer details.

Alternatives Considered

Google Slides and Google Jamboard

Miro is better than Google Slides because you can see everything on one board. Similar with Jamboard as we need to hop over and Jamboard is going extinct as well. I also like that Miro is more customizable. For example, there are sample music tracks that can easily be accessed, and you can also import new songs.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Canvas, Salesforce CMS, Google Slides

Likelihood to Recommend

For people with older computers it probably won't work due to the RAM. I think it would be useful for tutoring though as sometimes I had to go and show someone how to do a project and it was pretty easy to see their train of thought. I think it would also work well for people who are project managers and want to create a rough draft of their presentation which is essentially what we did at work. Then, we did our final draft on Google Docs and Canva. But the brainstorming was done on Miro

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