A tool I wouldnt want to do my job without
July 05, 2025
A tool I wouldnt want to do my job without
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We use Miro to run retrospectives for teams, to carry out workshops around technical architectures, diagram workflows and stakeholders involved in business processes. We aslo use it in order to diagram the dependencies, parts, sequence, and relationships between parts of very large scale projects that require a clearer breakdown and an easy visual representation. Many of these are done in remote meetings across multiple geographies with colleagues collaborating in real time.
Pros
- Real-time collaboration involving (at least) 10s of people
- Easy to spin up a diagram explaining a complex system or flow
- The interaction design on components and the UI is very smooth, slick, and predictable, making it easy to work with
- Sharing and exporting images is very easy
- It allows "synched diagrams" between boards which is a killer feature
Cons
- Selecting colours for your diagram... is hard. I wish I could use pre-designed colour pallets that I can reuse and that mean the same thing
- I wish border / background colour buttons in the selector were easier to differentiate - I keep editing the wrong thing and I often only care about the background, not the border
- I wish I could generate a diagrama from a document or multiple documents so I don't have to draw things from scratch
- I'd love to have org-specific templated components that I could reuse and that would mean the same thing across the business to ease standardization and recognizability of diagrams
- I use Miro for many workflows so it has reduced the number of internal tools we use
- It's very helpful in aligning stakeholders. I would argue it smoothes our delivery process through enhancing communication
- It makes it really simple to collaborate as a team in a digital space so it's a great time saver for retros and sometimes even sprint planning
Exporting a diagram as an image has been very useful for me as a PM in communicating and creating content
Quick diagraming and easy to use controls make it easy to build complex system diagrams and flows
The ability to star and retrieve diagrams is a huge time saver given how many boards we use and store
Quick diagraming and easy to use controls make it easy to build complex system diagrams and flows
The ability to star and retrieve diagrams is a huge time saver given how many boards we use and store
We no longer use things like Trello for sorting tasks on boards. We now pull in JIRA tickets to chart dependencies. A lot if not all of our technical diagrams are in Miro and are embedded in Confluence pages. People sometimes do presentations off of Miro. We run all our retros in Miro
I haven't come across any other tools that do better than Miro at present and I haven't had a need to do so. In my personal life I use Apple's Freeform because Miro only allows 1 board for personal use but that's all. It fulfills all my professional needs at the moment.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
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