Miro is a perfect match for us, as an organization that needs to collaborate different departments for different purposes and occasionally need to showcase the current progress along with making necessary adjustments, Miro provides us with a suitable platform for collaborating and project management. Also eliminates the need for multiple softwares and provides a secure environment.
Pros
Miro offers a variety of functions, primarily for collaboration, which it does seamlessly.
The other great thing is that it provides universal access from any device and from anywhere. Whether on a tablets from home.
Offers great project organization and development features like the infinite canvas, and commenting and tagging. These make the workflow fast and efficient.
At Alorica, where we have operations that involve fast-paced coordination and documentation, Miro saves a ton of valuable time.
Cons
There are some limitations for guest users. Which can hamper the experience at times.
The search function should be more precise allowing users to find results more deeply.
I believe the mobile experience is not that good when compared to desktop version.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say Miro is like a digital play room. Whether it’s strategy, or operations, it gives a overall great solution for collaboration. Not that much useful for mobile device users, but great for workstations.
As a manager, I oversee multiple teams spread across various locations, and Miro has been an all-in-one tool for collaboration, process visualization, and work optimization. In our organization, alignment between internal teams and external partners is very important. and Miro is great for that. It provides other set of productivity features as well, the most commonly used are whiteboard, voting & timer, presentations and more.
Pros
Miro simplifies workflow creation using flowcharts and diagrams for better presentation and efficiency.
Miro allows us for multi-user editing, comments, and live discussions for different teams, including external.
Great integration with Microsoft applications, resulting in a better performance than others.
Cons
As I work remotely often, I feel that Miro requires an internet connection, making it difficult to work in low-connectivity environments.
More file format options for exporting boards would be useful, rest all good.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro is a obvious choice for organizations that require a platform for remote collaboration and strategy planning. Managing different teams across different time zone in real-time is very easy with it.
Getting in touch with a colleague who's working remotely and getting some work done can be difficult sometimes. However, Miro has helped us ensure effortless collaborations and save a lot of valuable time. It also helps with some of our other workflows. Budget-friendly and handy to use.
Pros
Exceptionally great for virtual collaboration.
Handles network irregularities really well and premium call quality.
Boosts productivity and helps to increases creativity.
Cons
More formatting options while working on text based data files.
Some new additions of themes and visual changes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro comes in handy when you want to collaborate with your team virtually and work on various projects and presentations. Quick and easy to use.
I and my team uses Miro to collaborate visually, solving remote work challenges and project planning a times as it improves communication, making meetings more interactive and ensuring seamless teamwork. We use it for brainstorming, workflow mapping, and team alignment. Miro boosts productivity, creativity, and efficiency in short.
Pros
Helps teams manage projects, track progress, and results in streamline workflows.
Provides more than 100 templates for various use cases and also enables us to create and collaborate on visual diagrams.
Great security with services like encryption, access controls and more.
Cons
Lack of full offline functionality, hence, limiting access when internet is unavailable.
Performance Issues like large boards can slow down the system, affecting usability at times.
Smarter AI-powered suggestions for brainstorming and diagramming wouuld be really great. Especially, nowadays, new AI features rollout every month.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro is great for design sprints, strategy planning, team alignment and remote collaboration. However, it may not be that good for complex database management, or offline work. Also observed some performance issues on large boards.
Miro is a WONDERFUL collaborative tool. We use it for leading workshops, organizing our roadmaps, collaborating on retrospective feedback, and planning anything, really! Miro has a multitude of helpful pre-built templates that can spark ideas and save time instead of building from scratch. I also love that we can plan a campaign from start to finish and share the board across the marketing department to enable quick collaboration. This tool is a huge win!
Pros
Templates for Efficiency.
User-Friendly Interface.
Project Management & Agile Workflows.
Cons
While collaborating is easy, sharing a board is cumbersome if a user doesn't exit in Miro. Please make this process easier.
Not Ideal for Highly Structured Documentation.
Restricted Free Plan Collaboration.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro is a great collaborative tool. You can host remote meetings, workshops, etc. and create a collaborative space where all can participate. I also enjoy being able to create workflows to visualize a process. On the other hand, Miro can be a pricey tool for larger groups. There does seem to be some lag when many users are on one board.
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Executive in Marketing (Staffing & Recruiting company, 501-1000 employees)
We use Miro as a collaborative tool between users and teams. It helps us visually collect ideas that help guide brainstorming sessions and fast-paced meetings for our startup. We have a fully remote team, and Miro has found it essential to concentrate all contributions from our team in one place. It helps the teams feel more brought together and facilitates the discussions of new topics.
Pros
Remote team collaboration.
Whiteboard for brainstorming sessions.
Project planning.
Marketing strategy mapping.
Cons
More native block options for diagrams.
More native integrations with marketing tools, or others such as Notion.
More interactive blocks such as those from Figjam (figma).
Likelihood to Recommend
Remote Marketing teams: A highly collaborative tool that helps teams come together with new ideas, organize projects, and create detailed roadmaps of full marketing strategies. Projects we have created and presented to our stakeholders via Miro have always been compliment magnets. The Miro boards help users easily understand our roadmaps and steps, adding more value to our roles.
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Team Lead in Marketing (Environmental Services company, 51-200 employees)
The Digital Engagement group at RGP, Inc uses Miro for technical documentation, SFLC planning, workflow analysis and team building exercises. It is invaluable for building a knowledge base and collaborative information exchange.
Pros
Editing boards is intuitive and simple
Collaboration for team exercises are easy
Security: Ability to share information to effectively to relevant stakeholders.
Cons
We use "buzzers" for some team interactions. It would be nice to this directly in Miro
Better UML Sequence diagraming capabilities. Editing that is specific to this type of diagram.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro is great collaboration and team interactions and in general a good diagramming tool.
We use Miro for our daily stand up meeting. It is easy for everyone to contribute and easily visualizes what everyone is working on. We have users of all different technical acumen and all the users have been able to pick up the functionality of Miro very quickly. It is a very easy to use platform and we have added additional functionality over the years. e have added functionality to it and is is very adaptable to how our business evolves.
Pros
Easy to use interface
Visual representation of process mapping and flows
Very adaptable platform that can be configured to the individual organizations need
Cons
We have not used Miro for more complicated functions using Video or photos but looks like that would be easy to do as well
No issues or concerns
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for business process mapping, daily status meetings and is an easy to use visual representation. Most (if not all) businesses can (and should) use Miro as part of their status meetings. I have not faced a situation where it would not be appropriate. It can also be used for project planning and adding milestones while having a list or chart of who is responsible for what actions. I could also see that it would be suitable for card sorting and User Experience functions.
I am in the staffing industry, so we use Miro for organizing what jobs we have open and what stage we're at with filling them. The tag/job will be on one side of the board when it is just brought to the recruiters. From there it will get moved further to the right side as we send the resume to hiring manager, set up interviews, and finally close the req! Having this visual piece is super important for our industry so that the sales/client facing side and the recruiters can be in synch and have open communication.
Pros
Easy/simple to use
User friendly
Great visual
Cons
Lagging (only sometimes)
More customizability for more advanced users
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are working with a team and need communication on progress and timelines then it's a great tool. If you don't have any cross functional collaboration it wouldn't be as useful.
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Account Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 10,001+ employees)
I use Miro to create boards for brainstorming and planning activities. Since our organization has team members all over the world, Miro makes collaboration easy when running sessions. I prefer the online method for these planning and brainstorming sessions as they are easier to facilitate with all of the great features like stickies, voting, and timers!
Pros
Miro's interface is very intuitive and easy to use.
Online collaboration and the ability to send invites to team members are excellent.
Not having a limit to the board canvas is excellent, so you can add as much content as you like.
Cons
It would be great to see improvements in AI for sorting and cleaning data to isolate common themes and remove duplicates.
It would be great for users to be able to submit their templates for others to use.
Some in-product help would be great for the AI feature for tips on how to use it.
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro is really great for team collaboration. We have many remote team members, and Miro makes it easy and intuitive for us to run planning sessions where everyone can participate and see in real-time what everyone else is doing. Miro is good for planning, but not really great for execution. Getting ideas on a board is simple, but then moving them through the process has to be done somewhere else.
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Manager in Product Management (Environmental Services company, 201-500 employees)
