Connecting teams worldwide with no post-its
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We have a set of licenses to enhance our team's collaboration, run workshops & often use it on the ideation (discovery) phases. For design & develop we often jump into other tools that are not Miro. Slowly we are transitioning to move planning, and agile events into Miro instead of other tools given it's nature "whiteboard" feeling, collaborative model & most important - AI tools now implemented on the templates!
Pros
- Enabling collaboration in multinational companies.
- Allowing to do a brain dump of all the ideas & organize them
- Bring design thinking into a 'Visual' world
- Makes us work faster with templates
- Make us feel closer when remote (collaboration abroad)
Cons
- Visibility to stakeholders, we often extract insights from Miro to PPT
- Demo how to use it by doing, some users are new and frustrate quick
- Suggestions how to structure the board, they get large quickly & messy
- Integrations to tools we use in our day to day, Microsoft or google.
- Improved productivity by making our job faster
- Visualizing problems statements & making it visual to stakeholders
- Enabling collaboration across the world
- Improving the way we run workshops!
Today, the newest feature that really have helped us is the presentation slides. This can help us feel more "corporate/company" than navigating stakeholders through a Miro board with bunch of notes.
The presentation style make things easier when we are running workshop or presenting conclusions. Now, I used to believe the AI tool was going to be the best and I have to confess I still feel I run back to GPT, Perplexity and Gemini to cross run my thoughts.
Maybe better prompts on the AI or better usability would be nice. Like a how to build your workshop type of AI coach on Miro would be nice.
The templates are also top in my list, it's so easy to pick up a template from the Miroverse, understand it and implement in our workshop reducing time spent in creating the space myself.
The presentation style make things easier when we are running workshop or presenting conclusions. Now, I used to believe the AI tool was going to be the best and I have to confess I still feel I run back to GPT, Perplexity and Gemini to cross run my thoughts.
Maybe better prompts on the AI or better usability would be nice. Like a how to build your workshop type of AI coach on Miro would be nice.
The templates are also top in my list, it's so easy to pick up a template from the Miroverse, understand it and implement in our workshop reducing time spent in creating the space myself.
To be fair, we still have to go outside Miro to get stuff done and present to at least 80% of stakeholders (Senior Executives and VPs).
There is constantly a migration of people on tools for better documentation such as Confluence or Loop, I believe it is because the structure of Miro. If I want to get in and find documentation, it's often quite messy as a whiteboard because all ideas where there.
Tools and templates such as "Roadmap" has simplified our stack, and again we find ourselves using "Teams" for kanban. It seems there is a mix of "visibility" outside Miro that needs to be addressed in our team.
There is constantly a migration of people on tools for better documentation such as Confluence or Loop, I believe it is because the structure of Miro. If I want to get in and find documentation, it's often quite messy as a whiteboard because all ideas where there.
Tools and templates such as "Roadmap" has simplified our stack, and again we find ourselves using "Teams" for kanban. It seems there is a mix of "visibility" outside Miro that needs to be addressed in our team.
It is the ultimate collaboration tool for remote workers, across locations & even time zones. We have teams spanning across all continents & most countries, it is easy for them to see what was done before & collaborate. It is easier for us to run workshops and gather as much insights as possible, and it is easier for us to synthetize the insights & make it usable.
We tried using Microsoft whiteboard on teams, the ease of use is not the same. Miro ease of use is superb in terms of post-its, visualizing & collaborating. We do have our calls on teams & go to the Miro, which would be interesting for us to start exploring the teams calls on Miro. We chose Miro over those because it better fits the purpose of discovery & ideation.
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?
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
Using Miro
- Collaboration across continents
- Workshops
- Discovery
- Roadmap and quarterly planning
- Offsites
- Presenting!
- Prototyping
- Training
- Building Trainings
- Planning & Roadmap
- Backlog management
Evaluating Miro and Competitors
Not Sure
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
I believe ease of use is the most important. On a global company with presence in every continent, the ability to explain the use of Miro without being right next to the user (e.g. right click to move the mouse) is directly linked to the adoption teams would have.
We cannot run a workshop when people are trying to learn a new tool (Miro) as the focus is on learning the tool instead of the workshop itself.
We cannot run a workshop when people are trying to learn a new tool (Miro) as the focus is on learning the tool instead of the workshop itself.
I would run a pilot and measure adoption, a simple trial that can help us validate if our organization culture's and approach is fit to the tool.
The more easier it is to use, the better people will adopt the tool and the more tools can be replaced in one place, creating that so desired visibility & ease of use.
The more easier it is to use, the better people will adopt the tool and the more tools can be replaced in one place, creating that so desired visibility & ease of use.
Miro Implementation
Change management was minimal
- Accessibility
- Awareness that the tool existed
- Complexity to get licenses
1000 - I believe majority of our teams working on Miro are Product Teams, majority of platform (tech) actually live in other tools such as GitHub, Jira, Atlassian, Confluence.
The ones doing Miro are more Design teams that pair it with Figma, Product Teams in Discovery, Agile Teams for Trainings, and other teams for workshop.
The ones doing Miro are more Design teams that pair it with Figma, Product Teams in Discovery, Agile Teams for Trainings, and other teams for workshop.
5 - This question is quite difficult to understand. I believe we have a chatbot and less than 5 people to support Miro implementation along with other platforms.
The main challenge we face is not knowing who owns the license of Miro, what is the difference of the licenses and how many licenses are there. So the management of the tool or support is almost "ghost-like"
The main challenge we face is not knowing who owns the license of Miro, what is the difference of the licenses and how many licenses are there. So the management of the tool or support is almost "ghost-like"
Miro Training
- No Training
I wouldn't recommend implementing Miro without training. I believe the adoption and ease of promoting the tool across the organization for workshops would be significantly easier if we have a standardized onboarding. If users get licenses 1 day before a workshop, it is difficult, and it is very likely they are not repeatedly using Miro.
Configuring Miro
I don't. One thought I have is to ensure the infinite boards that are created are easy to navigate, and easy to digest without looking much inside the board.
E.g. 100 boards related to product development, all clustered into one site or team setup so that people know that X discovery workshop is sitting on that space.
E.g. 100 boards related to product development, all clustered into one site or team setup so that people know that X discovery workshop is sitting on that space.
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - the product does not support adding custom code
Miro Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team No escalation required Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | Not kept informed |
I honestly didn't knew there was premium support and wouldn't know the difference between premium support and standard support. I would consider premium support if I had a lot of issues and to be fair, if I had a lot of issues I would re-consider my plaform/tool stack including Miro. If support is needed, hopefully it has something to do with understanding the tool instead of the tool not working, and instead of support that would be premium onboarding.
I really can't remember when was the last time I requested support to Miro, however, it was the smoothest solution ever. Similar to when you squeeze an orange in a juicer and get orange juice out of it, you expect the solution is there, smoothly and ready to drink.
I do remember going more often to the communities for help and most of the answers where there.
I do remember going more often to the communities for help and most of the answers where there.
Using Miro
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Feel confident using | Inconsistent Slow to learn Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- Drag and drop images from the outside
- Templates
- Timer and music!
- Roadmap
- Tables
- Shapes!
Yes - I can use it to show my Miro, I dont use it to work on Miro for sure. It works well to really scroll and navigate through your though process or to give a quick update by looking up your current discovery work.
It is easy to use and it has the same "mobile/tactil" feel as any other whiteboard on the phone.
It is easy to use and it has the same "mobile/tactil" feel as any other whiteboard on the phone.
Miro Reliability
Integrating Miro
- Confluence
- Jira
- GitHub
- Figma


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