Top 3 Free Online Retrospective Tools for 2021
Online retrospective tools Retrospectives can also be made fun and engaging if you choose the right tool. The one that fits your team...
Quick and powerful online retrospectives in Slack
"Sprint Retrospective, or Sprint Retro in short, is an opportunity for the team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvement."
Troopr async Check-in meeting is the best way to conduct online Retrospectives in Slack.
How Slack Online Retrospectives work
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Select "Retrospective" Check-in and customize schedule, participants and reporting
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Troopr prompts your team appropriately for response in Slack
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Troopr compiles an aggregated report and shares in Slack
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Convert Retro feedback into Jira issues without leaving Slack
Why Troopr Retrospectives
Don’t learn another tool
Slack is where your team work happens everyday. Troopr Scrum ceremonies automations work completely in Slack. No need to set up and learn another tool.
Uninterrupted
team work
Troopr Check-ins are asynchronous by default. Team members respond when they get a moment any time during the Check-in, directly in Slack from wherever they are.
Improved Team Engagement
Choose from list of customizable retro templates to make the meetings interesting. Automated Slack reminders to encourage active contribution.
Deep Jira Integration
Search and add Jira issues, create issues from participant responses and automatically expand context for any Jira issues mentioned as part of response by any participant.
All-in-one package
Troopr Check-ins comes with many templates for scrum events including daily scrum, planning poker, backlog grooming, retrospectives and more.
Troopr Retrospective Check-in Features
Easy Setup & Engagement in Slack
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Customize schedule, participants, questions and reporting options to fit your team's needs.
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Pick from variety of available Retro templates and customize to your team needs.
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Get your retrospective done effortlessly in your Slack.
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Anonymous participation
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Participants can submit their responses anonymously.
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All the data collected are completely anonymous.
Retrospective Reports
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Automatically aggregates teams’ responses into summary reports in Slack and web that is easy to consume and engage.
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Web reports for convenient browsing and easier access to historical data.
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Easy export options to take out the report data out when you need it.
Grouping feedback
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The facilitator can choose to group the responses.
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The responses can be marked as duplicate and grouped with other responses in Slack thread or web report.
Anonymous voting
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The team members receive a notification to take part in voting.
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The team can cast their votes anonymously.
Anonymous commenting
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Team members receive a notification to take part in discussion/comments.
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The team can submit their comments anonymously.
Retrospective
Action Items
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Collect actionable information from every retrospective meeting.
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Track all action items in one place.
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Connect action items to user feedback.
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Connect action items to Jira issues.
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Encourage participation in future retrospective meeting by showcasing action taken on prior feedback.
Retrospective History & Engagement reports
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See all your previous retro reports in one place.
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Find how your team contributed over a period of time.
"I love the product and think there is a lot of potential here"
" No longer are we filling out Google doc for our weekly standups - a single Slack thread now suffices"
"I really like the web report for standups"
"I use troopr Check-ins for local and remote developers, It fulfills requrirements fine"
Troopr All-in-one Scrum Bot Automations
Daily Scrum
Daily team meeting to discuss what got done, whats the plan and blockers if any.
Planning Poker
Conduct planning poker to collaboratively determine task complexities with your team.
Backlog refinement
Run a backlog grooming session with your team to determine completeness of tasks in backlog.
Retrospective
End of Project or Sprint meeting to self inspect and plan for future improvements.
Other Troopr Retrospective Benefits
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Easy setup and custom recurring retrospectives directly in Slack
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Setup check-in for participants at any custom frequency
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Setup any number of custom questions for each retrospective
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Participants will be nudged to complete the retrospective few minutes before report is prepared
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Snooze requests when you are busy so Troopr will get back to you later
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Run retrospective at a specific time based on each user's local timezone. Ideal for distributed teams
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Get visibility into how well the team is doing with user engagement report
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Every customer gets responsive customer support directly from the product engineering team
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Troopr adopts industry standard methods for best in class security
Still undecided?
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