Item: Miro
Rating: 10
Author: Jack Hutchinson

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Miro primarily to for project coordination, project management, personal creativity, facilitation of workshops, design of workshops and cross-directorate collaboration.

Primarily I use Miro for facilitation of online workshops and this helps us to address our problem of having many employees work remotely, work on-site, work in office and we have others who work across the country at our southern branch in the UK. Miro helps immensely to bridge the gap of distance between employees, so that workshops are easier to run where we can work on company challenges on the online collaborative whiteboard.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Collaboration (sticky dot voting / comments / sticky notes / voting sessions / feedback)
Easy to use design capabilities (structuring workshops and exercises)
Wide range of modularity (can embed other app's API in the board, can easily inject templates from the miroverse)
Very clear and easy to grasp UI

Cons

Notifications (if someone has added something to the board that needs your attention)
Introduction / Splash Page for those who have never used miro before or don't have an account; they can sign in (not make an account) with their name so facilitators know who have used the board or posted a sticky and they can accept rules of a board before using it
More facilitation capabilities (there is already a lot but more could never hurt!)

Return on Investment

Reduced project completion time
Increased task / workflow visibility - easier to ask for help or give support
Massively improved productivity (for certain types of workers; like myself with ADHD)
Seamless facilitation

Ease of Integration

I think Miro can be integrated easily into any team, any directorate or any individual worker's daily tools. For those in my team who may not be as tech-savvy, it only takes a brief hand hold to help them get to grips on what the technology has to offer.

For myself, I integrated it into my work in a matter for minutes.

Collaboration

Miro has helped our company unite teams who work remotely, on-site, in office, in different branches and externally to sponsors or suppliers.

There really is no limit to who can collaborate with us through the use of Miro which I believe is the magic of the tool as it can be used to facilitate any conversation with any stakeholder.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Other Software Used

ChatGPT

Likelihood to Recommend

Miro is well-suited for facilitating workshops and facilitating discussions where a simple meeting would not suffice.

It is also great for getting down information that would not be so simple to digest and breaking it down for easier explanation - either through frames or stickies or diagrams with arrows; flowcharting.

I have used it recently as a splash page for some initiatives in the organisation (like biographies on guest speakers for events) but the engagement is fairly bad. Anything that includes engaging people who are not used to Miro is not good but maybe that is our company's culture.

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