Miro - An excellent tool for Brainstorming

Normally we use Miro for Project Plans Design, Retrospective and also creating architectural diagrams. However, since last year when we came to know Miro's integration with Confluence, it made our life a lot easy now because, now all the designs & architectural diagrams that were created on Miro are directly embedded on our runbooks and we don't need to create them separately on Draw.io. In addition to that, for retrospective we're also using Kanban board to keep track of improvements we're coming up within the team internally. Lately we're also seeing option of planning poker which definitely adds value to the Miro board specially during Quarterly Plannings, Sprint Planning as well as Program increments. Miro is constantly providing regular updates to the UI hence it is able to fit our business need quite efficiently.

Mainly the templates, there are wide range & variety of inbuilt templates which can be altered according to the business needs and this saves a lot of time in starting the work from scratch, and with the new feature updates and introduction of AI, this will take the Miro board into a totally different dimension. I even loved the option of background music inside the board which potentially improves the thought process during brain storming sessions.

We were previously using draw.io and find the right shapes, sizing and creating architectural diagrams was always challenging, plus there was limited amount of design templates while after we switched to Miro, it has become more efficient and user friendly. This has increased the throughput of our engineers to easily create and share the design documents to the internal teams.