Miro: Trustworthy companion for Coaching, Product & Tech
January 16, 2025
Miro: Trustworthy companion for Coaching, Product & Tech
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
As an Agile Coach, I have been using Miro daily for roughly 5 years. It serves as an irreplaceable tool for creating and facilitating workshops, trainings and agile team meetings. Additionally, both product and tech find great use for Miro visualising product and architectural flows, brainstorming business opportunities, writing OKRs and more.
Pros
- Private mode: should you need to eliminate bias from brainwriting
- Company themes and templates: saves the brand colours and fonts for higher engagement; turn internal trainings or workshops you don't want to share with the rest of the world into templates that anyone from the company could use.
- Miroverse and a huge library of templates, both more conservative and creative, for different occasion for gathering inspiration or using out of the box.
- Overall look and feel: beautiful and intuitive design
- Latest Intelligent Canvas releases for boosted engagement and features right on the board.
Cons
- It's not too intuitive for me to move and/or copy elements in bulk that have locked items in it
- I struggled with slowness for a while, which has been fixed - the only slowness I encounter now is with huge boards, especially the ones with pictures and other files included
- Changing font size inside a shape (such as a square) is problematic
- If you have previously opened a password protected Miro board, then after a while it will ask you to add the password again, but does not give any hints what board that is, so you cannot check what board it is and what the password is. An idea would be to show the title of the board on that screen.
- Kickstarting effectively new projects and team - discussions that would otherwise take time and confusion on paper or not discussed at all, will be visualised and contributed into by the whole team, effortlessly.
- Technical flows made easily understandable and visual for reuse, fast onboarding and similar
Working in a mainly remote and cross-country setting, Miro is THE go-to tool to facilitate any kickoffs, trainings, workshops or teams' daily ways of working.
Microsoft Whiteboard and Conceptboard were tested a couple of time, but didn't compare to Miro's speed, number of features and usability. Mural offers quite a similar set of features, having a slight advantage in the past - that gap has now been closed by introducing private mode and other upgrades on Miro. Compared to all of them, the look and feel of Miro is nicer, offering more comfortable and intuitive navigation.
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
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