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A purpose built, simple to use tool that teams love.
Facilitate better agile retrospectives and health checks for continuous improvement.
Insights that level up your teams
From key agile metrics and easy reporting to discovering common themes and team sentiment in meetings.
TeamRetro’s Insights feature lets you track and explore everything from meeting cadence, time to completion on action, team health and so much more.
Retrospectives that teams love
Create safe spaces for ideas and actions to be shared.
Design and create retros that have an intuitive workflow, time boxed events and independent brainstorming and voting.
Let the team propose and accept actions and create team agreements to get everyone working better together.
Run Agile health checks
Want to know how well your team is going? Use common health check models (Spotify, Atlassian, Google) or create your own.
Capture, track and improve overall team health. From Scrum Ceremonies and Valuesto Team Happiness and Agile maturity.
See where your team needs support and where they are thriving.
Track and publish actions
Easily push actions and meeting summaries your workflow tools safely and quickly.
From Jira, Trello, Asana and Basecamp through to Confluence Slack and MS team, you’ll be helping drive change for continuous improvement.
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See how TeamRetro compares to Parabol
TeamRetro is an enterprise ready tool that will keep your meetings on time and on point. Support high performing teams with the level of security and insights that will help achieve your agile and continuous improvement goals.
Parabol |
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Retrospective templates | 50+ | 9 |
Health Checks & Radars | ||
Health metrics and trends over time | ||
Customizable templates | Partial | |
Add/remove steps | ||
AI template suggestions | Partial | |
Icebreakers | ||
Check in/check out questions | ||
Live reactions | ||
Music | ||
Comment on ideas by others | ||
Presentation mode | Partial | |
Mobile device support for non-site retros | ||
Automated grouping | ||
Review open actions | ||
Polling | ||
Propose actions against ideas | ||
Soc 2, GDPR, Privacy compliant | ||
Integrations | Partial | |
Insights, stats, reports and metrics | ||
Team sentiment and agreements | ||
Pricing per team | $15-25 | $38 |
What TeamRetro users say!
TeamRetro enables team to pre-record thoughts for meetings
Martijn Groeneveldt - Software Developer at Infi
Martijn Groeneveldt - Software Developer at Infi
Super easy to collaborate in meetings
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
A significantly better tool
Tracy Kennedy - @RiotLavaliere
Tracy Kennedy - @RiotLavaliere
No hassle with visualizing the data
Andreas Lippert - Louis.de
Andreas Lippert - Louis.de
I’m madly in love with @TeamRetroHQ
Mathew Cropper - @mrtcropper
Run an engaging meeting … focusing on actions and conversations
Anna - Software Advice
Anna - Software Advice
A great tool for a collaborative retrospective
Ratika Gandhi - @ratikapgandhi
Ratika Gandhi - @ratikapgandhi
Delivers the expected result
Ilya Z. Agile Coach - G2.com
Ilya Z. Agile Coach - G2.com
Very easy for everybody to participate
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
Step-by-step framework…
Reimer Anke - Chatmosphere
Reimer Anke - Chatmosphere
The best tools I’ve ever used!
Ledameth - @LedamethOP
Ledameth - @LedamethOP
A great alternative!
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
An exceptional product! You’ve totally changed my company
Alex Kreilein - @AK3R303
Alex Kreilein - @AK3R303
Simple but effective tool
Tadas - Software Advice
Tadas - Software Advice
Extremely valuable for a remote teams
Gregory - Sourceforge
Gregory - Sourceforge
We use @TeamRetroHQ and it’s sweet!
Dan Barker - @Dan_Barker1
Dan Barker - @Dan_Barker1
Absolutely what I need to help get people talking
Sudhakaran K - SAP
Sudhakaran K - SAP
We are using TeamRetro and are very happy with it
Really useful and I prefer it
Chris Tromans - CCDC
Chris Tromans - CCDC
@TeamRetroHQ makes your events more meaningful
Agile42 - @agile42
Our agile teams love the tool
-Vlore K. Head of Organizational Development Product & Tech - G2.com
-Vlore K. Head of Organizational Development Product & Tech - G2.com
I’m very impressed with TeamRetro and so is my team
Molood Ceccarelli - Remote Forever
Molood Ceccarelli - Remote Forever
Enables our team to share opinions during sprints
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
Exactly what we expected and even more
Leonardo Mena - Pyxis
Leonardo Mena - Pyxis
We have used it for some time now and we love it
Hugo Wernhoff - CEO of Kognity
Hugo Wernhoff - CEO of Kognity
A great product that allows us to protect our teamwork
Yasemin K. - Sourceforge
Yasemin K. - Sourceforge
Makes our retrospective less intense and much more constructive
Ragika Raveendran - Rockar
Ragika Raveendran - Rockar
Saves time and resources
Fun way to collect feedback after a sprint
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
TeamRetro Client - G2.com
An awesome retrospective tool experience!
Zev Levit-Ramos - Zocdoc
Zev Levit-Ramos - Zocdoc
Using TeamRetro for the first time was AMAZING
Kim Hansen - Appfolio
Kim Hansen - Appfolio
Excellent – simple & very efficient
Laure M. - Sourceforge
Laure M. - Sourceforge
I really like this tool
Rebecca G. - Slashdot
Rebecca G. - Slashdot
Parabol FAQ’s : General
Parabol is an online tool that can be used for conducting agile team workshops aka Retrospectives online. It is primarily used by virtual or remote teams, who often work (according to the Scrum Framework) in sprints and prefer to use varying retro templates at the end of their iteration. Parabol is open source and offers and on premise solution.
On the other hand, TeamRetro, Parabol’s alternative, is a cloud based retrospective tool with a stronger focus on ease of use in running effective retrospectives, more features on creating actions and has the ability to create surveys for health checks and team agreements. It has useful and relevant reports and Insights that allow teams to continuously improve.
Meanwhile, Parabol’s alternative – TeamRetro, is free for 30 days. Pricing is fixed per team with unlimited members. See here for pricing information.
Yes, Parabol is open source. More information regarding this can be found on the company’s website and on GitHub.
The Parabol Company is a private company founded by Jordan Husney and Taya Mueller. According to LinkedIn, Jordan Husney is the CEO, Taya Mueller no longer works at Parabol.
TeamRetro, Parabol’s alternative, was founded by Jeremy Lu (CEO) and Brad Ward (CTO).
To cancel your subscription you will have to email them by logging into your account and navigate to their “danger zone”. There isn’t the option to cancel your own subscription.
Parabol’s alternative – TeamRetro, is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and can be hosted in either in the US or the EU. It meets the highest standards of data protection and security. Detailed information can be found here.
Yes, retrospective data can be migrated to TeamRetro.
Last updated : May 9, 2023