Parabol is a great tool for facilitation and team work. I love that you can have the whole history of a team in one single tool, avoiding unnecessary documentation. You can create action actions in the same meeting, tag people affected and later follow up with that tasks list. I also really like the templates available for retrospectives and that you also can create your own templates, even make a copy of the ones there and adapt it to our needs. The icebreaker question is amazing, it helps to set the mood before going into reflection mode. I've use it quite often. The feature for the estimating tasks is also great and works great with JIRA integration, it even adjusts the Story points in JIRA when you change them in the tool, really helpful! Again, avoids double and manual work. I highly recommend this tool, it works perfectly with fully remote, mixed set up or even when having a retrospective in person, but as a support tool to document what was discussed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Something to improve would be to have more templates, as the options list is quite limited. Maybe as well to be able to remove the facilitator's votes, as you don't always need to vote, depending on the type of session you are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I love the most about Parabol is that it gives us visibility of the actions that we have committed to do, which translates into accountability and truly improving as a team. My teams really enjoy the icebreakers and it becomes a great space for us to connect as a team, bonus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it sends me reminders of my scheduled tasks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love using parabol to do my planning poker and retrospectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's hard to create tasks on the spot and ensure people follow through in retros. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use templates and ongoing tracking of action items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jira integration is only to Jira Cloud, and was not obviously available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Step-by-step retro process

- user-friendly interface

- interaction with comment and emoji Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- No non-anonymous user setting

- email summary is difficult to understand

- difficult to carry actions from discussion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like running our retros in it. I also love that we can do our planning poker async with the devs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only the admin can change the swim lanes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parabol it's a simple tool and complete retrospective tool. In feel minutes, we create a complete retrospective meeting. In my company all the team leader using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manager users are more complicated. We don,t control for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple with just enough complexity but not more. Parabol makes retrospectives and other types of brainstorm-cluster-discuss types of meetings really smooth. With every member working on their own computer, this tool makes it easy to get a lot done fast, even more effectively than on a board with sticky notes. I have used this tool in both in-person and remote (with the whole team on zoom or on the phone) and it works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By default Parabol sends a summary email for every meeting to all team members regardless of whether they joined the meeting or not. I would rather have an option to include those who were not present in the email rather than having it be the default setting.

You can create your own templates for meetings, but I haven't see yet the option to transfer these templates to other teams or other organizations, that would be handy for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It enables us to run smooth retros with our remote teams and customize the flow to our specific needs. It also centralizes action items for easy reference, and integrates with our work tools like Jira and Github. Adoption is easy and intuitive: no change management skills required, your team will love it. While we initially adopted Parabol for our Retros, mainly with our offsite teams, we quickly ended up using it for various other purposes, such as Lean Coffee, even in onsite meetings. Finally what I really like about Parabol is how it's continuously evolving, having its roadmap influenced by user feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't believe there's anything major we dislike. We initially had a few comments for minor improvements, such as "This feature is not that obvious, could you make it more visible?". The Parabol team has been so receptive in addressing our questions, it's hard to find anything left to write here! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parabol has been great at providing an environment with my teams to openly discuss any issues that took place or any great moments we had during a Scrum, without fear of backlash or judgement. Its especially helpful in the cases where some developers who are a bit quieter than others having a space where their concerns are heard.

I feel any level of team whether a small 3 man team or a more robust team size can benefit from using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to dislike about this tool, the only point of concern I may have are the continuous updates (Which are never a bad thing) I would prefer to have some form of communication sent out listing the new updates to be expected with each new iteration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.