Meet TeamRetro

Miro is predominantly a fully featured online whiteboard tool which means it can also be used for running a retropsective. To do so you have to create a new board and either build or choose a template from Miroverse where there are over 1500+ templates you can choose from. Once a board is created, there will be sticky notes under each heading cattegory that people can type their ideas into. People can move ideas around and add comments to a sticky note. To add more ideas, copy and paste a new sticky note into the relevant section to allow new ideas to be added. You can also change idea colours to match a topic. If you want to group ideas into themes, you can drag and drop common ideas into the same area, then use the select or Lasso tool to create a new group to match the group. If you are on the Business plan, you can then enable votes which allow you users to then add votes to ideas which you can then use for discussion.

TeamRetro does not have a whiteboarding feature. Instead it allows users to simply type in their ideas into a retrospectively very quickly under topic headers. You can also make this process anonymous. People can comment and react on ideas easily. Automated grouping means that ideas can be clustered quickly into common themes. Independent dot voting is then used to focus the discussion onto key areas which are automatically ordered, and available in presentation mode. This syncs everyone’s devices onto the same idea. Actions can then be captured against ideas and integrated with your workflow tool. Overall, the learning curve of TeamRetro is very low because of it’s facilitated and designed workflow.