Miro is awesome for planning and brainstorming
May 05, 2025

Miro is awesome for planning and brainstorming

Jordan Stilley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

We mainly use Miro for planning, this includes both long-term roadmap mapping and short-term detailed planning. We often have a lot of different activities occurring in parallel, from near term SW deliveries, to new functions in the medium term, to adding new technologies long term. Miro provides an excellent and easy-to-use UI to visualize the different actives and provide different levels of details on each type of item on the same board.

Pros

  • Being able to add and move objects
  • Being able to add small items into bigger objects on a large board
  • Very high uptime - it's almost always available
  • Many collaborators at the same time

Cons

  • Linking with other tools, such as JIRA
  • Better way to undo recent actions - it's hard to undo if someone else accidentally deletes something important on a board.
  • A way to add a more detailed description to a post-it note that's not visible unless one clicks on the note.
  • Has saved us several man days when other planning tools (e.g. JIRA) have crashed
  • Has sped up collaboration in our team, especially when several work virtually/hybrid.
  • Has made it easier to communicate and update plans for product delivers to external stakeholders compared to tools like PowerPoint.
It is pretty easy to use. We have many team members who use it, and we haven't had any major challenges. However, some items could be more obvious on how to use, like labels.
The most impactful features are the ability to make boards quickly, add panels and other shapes for the work areas we have, and the put in post-it notes for the details. With these features, we can quickly develop a plan that the team can start to execute and has a clear structure.
I would say it's been a great replacement to a physical white-board, especially because our team and department is spread geographically and works virtually. We need to track the actual work items in JIRA, but Miro has greatly aided our planning of those items and we even use it to propose new items that we'll put in JIRA. It's also more useful than PowerPoint for communicating plans and new features/concepts that need a drawing.

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

It's excellent for planning future work, but near term detailed work and long term roadmaps. We use it continually within our team and department for these purposes. It can also be really good for brainstorming and taking meeting notes. I've even used it for a document review, since others could add comments with post it notes.

It's not so helpful in fast-changing topics where data is coming from other sources, like JIRA, in my experience.

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