Miro: King of All Trades

Miro is an invaluable tool for communication via visuals with collegues both virtual and co-located. As a software shop, we find Miro to be useful for almost all roles. Whether it's creating an apporachable project timeline as a project manager, prioritizing backlog items through voting as a product owner, breaking down epics into user stories or creating process diagrams as a business analyst, or crafting a UI design as a designer, Miro has features to allow for quick, easy, yet powerful and in depth visuals to help everyone be on the same page. In addition, miroverse is an incredibly well-stocked resource for pre-made templates that we routinely use for retrospectives to keep them fresh and engaging, or for other templates to think about topics in new ways. Furthermore, Miro offers great webinars and educational material to aquaint users with new features when they come out (which is often), though most of the time, the new features are so intuitive, they don't require much explanation because they just work the way I would expect them to.

Miro is a great tool from inception to completion of projects. Acting as a personal thought space, Miro allows for the quick visual reflection of individuals' thoughts to organize their ideas into cohesive concepts to present to a larger audience. Once approved, project progress can be organized and communicated through Miro using timelines and other visuals. With the ability to assign users to cards, Miro can also be used for tracking progress as well. Typically, software as broad and universally applicable as Miro fall into "jack of all trades, king of none", but Miro delivers amazing value in most areas it covers, making it a standout tool across the board (pun intended) for many situations, regardless of role or industry.