Item: Miro
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a Professor and researcher, so I need to track a mix of research projects at various stages, as well as manage my weekly to-do list for teaching, research, service, and managing team members of my lab. I need a place where I can track these things and offload them while being able to quickly reference them. Being able to manipulate these and easily access them on any device, with really clean UI means I recommend it often to other researchers and even graduate students.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Excellent UI and usability
Easy to explore templates, and find and customize
Easy to navigate between boards for different levels of organizational abstraction

Cons

Sometimes Miro won't allow me to click in and edit the board, particularly my weekly to-do list
At times I can accidentally navigate away from the board where my information is and have trouble finding. A "recenter" type of button might aid with this.
It might be nice to be able to archive past boards. If this functionality exists I am not aware of it.

Return on Investment

As an academic, research output is my gold standard. I am able to track multiple projects at various stages of development easily, for quick reference.
On rare occasions when things are very busy updating the Miro becomes an extra task that feels like I don't have time for it.
I gain time back, however, from always knowing where my to-dos and vital information about my projects is stored.

Collaboration

I primarily use Miro for individual use. In the past, when fully remote during COVID, I used Miro to collaborate with other organizers in student organization. Miro let us all access the same mind-maps, kanbans, and to-dos asynchronously and in various locations with ease. If I ever needed to work with a larger team than me and my lab team, I would definitely start with Miro.

Alternatives Considered

Bandcamp and Notion

Bandcamp and Notion have more extensive functionality for project management, in my opinion. I think they are useful for more regimented environments that have consistent patterns of work. For more collaborative visioning, or innovative collaboration, I would choose Miro. And for ease of use and onboarding of new members, I think Miro is a bit more intuitive and has an easier learning curve.

Key Insights

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is great for tracking individual projects in their lifecycle, as well as individual to-dos or project specifics. I don't use the collaborative functionality as much, but I think this would be a strong reason to use it if you needed a collaborative mind map, kanban, or to-do list. For bigger teams, other project management software may be more effective. I also have not fully explored any additional features for collaborative work (to see fi there is like email reminders of action items. Other project management software, like basecamp or notion does this well.)

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