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Users highlight the ease of use in Parabol, making team planning and scrum activities straightforward and enjoyable. (3 mentions)
Users appreciate the seamless JIRA integration of Parabol, enhancing team planning and collaboration during sessions. (1 mentions)
Users love the seamless integration with JIRA, enhancing team collaboration and story management during planning poker. (1 mentions)
Users love the team collaboration in Parabol, finding planning poker integration with JIRA incredibly useful and efficient. (1 mentions)
Users report editing issues with Parabol, noting bugs and challenges with the editing interface and code snippets. (1 mentions)
Users desire a unique meeting link for sharing that remains consistent, enhancing team collaboration via Parabol. (1 mentions)
Users report template issues, noting bugs and an editor that's not developer-friendly, complicating customization efforts. (1 mentions)

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Verified User in Computer Software
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Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great help for agile sprint retrospective with remote"
4/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

Ease of use, enables remote participation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Would be great to have integrations with major project management tools (ClickUp / JIRA / ...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
AC
Verified User in Consulting
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fun & taking the team to the next level"
4/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

The different templates that are letting you think outside the box, allowing the team to evolve together. Also really like the icebreaker function which is really fun and brings the team closer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Would be great if you could connect the tasks directly to Asana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Immi W.
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Immi W.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Overall great experience!"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

Easy templates quick and easy to follow and set up. Good range of templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Sometimes not all the steps are needed, for example, the grouping and voting for smaller teams with less contributions isn't always needed. Maybe there could be a way of only having these features when there are at least 10 contributions or something like that? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Tara D.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Interactive retro experience"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

Parabol provided an interactive retro experience that engaged the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

The follow-up from the retro feedback wasn't as intuitive as I'd have liked and the process to access the feedback after the retro was clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anamaria G.
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Anamaria G.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool for remote teams"
5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

We have been using Parabol to organise our team's retrospectives.

Meetings are effortless to set up, and the different options are great for making each retrospective unique.

We like that the cards are easy to group and are not visible to others until everyone has finished typing.

It is also great to be able to go back to the previous meetings and see all the ideas and conversations around them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

We are generally happy with Parabol and feel it offers everything we need to organise our team meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
UH
Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Instant easy retros"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

I use Parabol to run bi-weekly retros for my team, and it's by far the easiest and quickest tool to set these up. With just a few clicks we can run an amazing retro that handles all of the ticketing, voting, grouping and actions for us. No need for any setup at all. Highly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Would love some more whiteboarding features to be built into the retros, buts not necessary at all, they are great as they are already. Overall no complaints about the product though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A modern, collaborative tool for organization sprints."
5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

Collaboration is really well done. I also like the variety of templates and how easy it is to take notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Seems very nit picky but in all of my teams people tend to struggle with the 'Next Button'. It's super neat how it slowly fills up the circle until everyone clicked 'Next', but the issue is that 1) most people forget to click the Next button, 2) don't know whether they have already clicked it (resulting in clicking twice which marks them as "not ready") and 3) don't immediately get that the green circle shows the overall "ready state" of the team. So making this button a bit bigger, maybe have it buzz or something if there is no more activity on the screen would be super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juliette D.
JD
Juliette D.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Nice tool globally"
4/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

The ideas of 'Ice breakers' All the features in the Retrospective template like DAKI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

No way to reopen "closed" meetings. The History is seeable by everyone, although there are "tests" that should not be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Teresa T.
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Teresa T.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use, useful retrospective features, looks cute"
4/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

We use it mostly for retrospectives - I like the ability to add thoughts, group them and vote on them.

Icebreakers are handy and not overdone/cheesy

The interface is slick and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

I'd love to see more even variety in the retrospective templates; some are pretty similar to one another.

Not sure if it exists but a Slack integration would be great if it doesn't...clearly I need to go check Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pablo M.
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very useful when my team went fully remote"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Parabol?

It's easy to use, the templates they have cover 99.9% of situations, and you can create your own templates.

You can have a meeting running in seconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parabol?

Every person in the meeting needs to use the app, sometimes we are several people in the same office and we have to have all the browser open, it will be nice is there is some "hybrid" mode for teams that are not fully remote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.