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If you are a small business looking for an easy and affordable way to conduct online retrospectives or a larger business evaluating a mature but affordable online retrospective bot, this is what we are going to talk about.

In this blog, we are going to take into account 3 Online retrospective Slack bots for comparison.

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Key feature comparison

Retrospective templates

Allow different templates in your retrospective

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - Yes

Standuply - Yes

Custom schedule, timezone aware

Allow weekly or monthly schedule. Run at each participants local time zone

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - Yes

Standuply - Yes

Voting on feedback

Allow participants to vote on the feedback to prioritize action plans

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - No

Standuply - No

Commenting/discussing on feedback

Allow participants to discuss the feedback and action plans

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - No

Standuply - No

Capturing and tracking action items in Jira

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - No

Standuply - No

Jira Integration (auto-link and unfurl issue key)

Jira integrations with an auto preview of mentioned issues, and auto-attach activity log from Jira projects.

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - Yes

Standuply - Yes

Summary reports

Allow aggregated reports to be sent to the managers, stakeholders and team members

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - Yes

Standuply - Yes

History and analytics

Show historical data from previous retrospectives and allow for export and share. Show team engagement metrics.

Troopr - Yes

Geekbot - Yes

Standuply - Yes

Other online retrospective tools

There are also several online tools available specifically for running Sprint retrospectives that you can try.

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Why choose Troopr?

1. Troopr covers almost all the features and also saves several hundred dollars when your team needs to grow
2. Troopr will notify participants about the retrospective at their prime working hours at users respective local time zones
3. With Troopr, the team members are allowed to vote on the feedback to collectively decide on what matters the most to the group
4. With Troopr, the team can collaboratively discuss and decide the actionable items that you want to take away from your retrospective into your next Sprint
5. Troopr seamlessly integrates with Jira or Github to capture and track action items from the team’s feedback without leaving Slack
6. Troopr allows managers to see how different team members have contributed to retrospective processes over time
7. Troopr allows you to collaborate with participants outside your company by running cross-team retrospectives in Slack shared channel
8. Troopr is designed to fit teams of any size
   

Troopr is already trusted by 1000s of Agile teams worldwide including Accenture, Intel, Tokopedia, Delivery Hero and more.

If you want to easily set up and customize retrospectives, asynchronously collect team feedback, and continuously find new workflow improvements, try using Troopr.

Get started by installing Troopr from Atlassian Marketplace or Slack App Directory.