Picking a Retrospective Tool for Remote Teams

The team I am presently on works entirely remotely. We recently adopted Scrum and have been doing biweekly Sprint Retrospective events.

Instead of using a generic white boarding tool (e.g. Microsoft 365 Teams or the beta in Atlassian Confluence), we have adopted Metro Retro.

With Metro Retro, we are able to take advantage of the functionality you want during retrospectives. I especially like private stickies feature and each person being in full control of what they share and when. Voting on stickies is easy. Capturing action items is easy. Having a visible timer countdown is excellent. Confetti and similar add some fun to it all. Work should be efficient and fun and Metro Retro gives that to us for the 2 hours per month we are in retrospectives.

A competing tool we did not consider is GoRetro. It also looks pretty good.

Does anyone have experiences to share with which tool(s) they are using for Retrospectives?

Some reference links for you:

• Sprint Retrospective (Scrum Guidelines)
• Metro Retro Pricing
• Atlassian Whiteboards (in beta)
• Share a whiteboard in Microsoft Teams
• Metro Retro versus GoRetro (blog post by GoRetro)