Strong visualization tool for ideation and planning in collaboration
September 27, 2024

Strong visualization tool for ideation and planning in collaboration

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I personally use Miro for any type of idea drafting and designing. It helps visualize ideas, detail them into clear building blocks and refine them until implementable features are defined. Also, I use it for roadmap drafting and tracking.
All of these abilities can be easily shared with the whole team in a scalable, easy-to-use way and with automatic updates. Thereby, this tool is the best collaborative visualization tool I use.

Pros

  • Freestyle visualization with lots of easy-to-use elements
  • Real-time collaboration with small to large groups of people
  • Automatic updates on changes

Cons

  • Standardization of content creation
  • Real-time integration with planning tools such as Jira for live tracking
  • Fast and easy visual alignment of contents
  • Elevated common understanding of a feature and its use case
  • Accelerated progress tracking substantially due to easily visible charts
  • Connected different organizations' teams rapidly
The configuration of the Miro workspaces was very quick within the company. When onboarding other organizations there were some access restrictions that reduced the collaboration progress, but they could be overcome. Adding new internal employees is seamless and does not leave a lot of room for improvement. The integration with Slack also worked very quickly.
The integrations I have used are to Slack, Jira and Confluence. All of them have worked easily and out of the box. There has not been a case in which they presented a blocker to my work progress. I can still see room for improvement when it comes to the scope of integration functionalities: Having a more versatile replication of Miro contents in Jira issues would help boost efficiency even more.
The collaboration features are one of the core functionalities of Miro. I use it for many Scrum events: reviews, retrospectives, plannings, refinements. I also very much appreciate the wealth of available templates and collaboration features such as the estimation poker, the timer, the private mode, the comments among several others. In terms of cross-team collaboration I see Miro as a leader in the tool market.
For ideating on a feature I also looked at Figma. Figma is more UI focused and brings in more restrictions towards collaborative content creation in the tool. This makes it hard to think freely and assess all different user inputs easily. It also lacks the breadth of shapes and content types that Miro provides.

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

Miro is very well suited for starting structuring ideas independently or in direct collaboration with colleagues. It helps kick-start ideation very quickly and drives the work progress in product feature discovery, definition, alignment and refinement, work package definition, execution, testing, release and operations. By not restricting content creation in strict context-specific guard rails it can be used across many different use cases without limitation. The tool can still improve with regards to standardizing user input and allowing integrating this content with other tools, such as Jira (for planning), action trackers and several other tools used for implementing the ideas/features defined in Miro.

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