What's the best tool for capturing/documenting team retrospectives?

Question

I'm looking for a web based tool to capture the input of multiple people across multiple locations

Mike Coutermarsh · Accepted Answer

I like to use Quip for this. Can send out a shared doc, make edits & comment on each. Also useful for having meetings with a remote team. Everyone can edit/see changes at the same time.

Alex Potrivaev · Answer

I think Teambit is really good for this job (disclosure: I’m one of the co-founders).

It can help you to run regular retros with lightweight surveys. You’ll be able to effortlessly gather the opinion from everyone in the team (text and reaction-based), see it all in a single place and analyse it over time.

And on top of helping with retros, it can empower your team to holistically improve performance by making feedback a daily habit.

Laure Albouy · Answer

Teams use Slite to document and organize their retrospectives, processes and anything that should be written down really :) features include: a real-time editor, channels to organize your docs, comments, public shares + other sweet stuff!

Shay Howe · Answer

Lead Honestly is my go to for team management, specifically as a leader. It helps facilitate all of our 1-on-1 meetings, provides a pulse of how the team is doing, and tracks action items we need to do.

Daniel Lobo · Answer

You can give winio a try. It's crazy simple to start working on it. You have projects and inside of it attachments, tasks, and discussions. It doesn't have a ton of features that you won't use anyway. It just does its thing.

Ariel Long · Answer

Not only all files together, but also versions, annotations, comments and status, all in one place. Also shared history :)

Ryan Peterson · Answer

I spent some time working w/ Carbon Five a few years ago, and they use a self-built tool called Stickies.io. You can add remote collaborators, color-code notes to represent your different categories, and export the results as a csv at the end of the meeting. And it's free.

Nathan Bashaw · Answer

I'm a huge fan of dropbox paper. Much faster and lighter-weight than Google Docs.

Jenny Coleman · Answer

Nuclino is a great documentation tool. It serves as a team wiki or a knowledge base and is super easy to use. Highly recommended.

John Ababseh · Answer

I like notion its a product I found on product hunt and is great for unifying teams while organizing important docs and tasks.

Pulkit Agrawal · Answer

At the risk of being perceived as boring, I'll suggest Google Docs -- it does the job well (multiple collaborators, suggesting mode, history of revisions etc.) and works with Drive (which we use for all our docs storage).

I also especially like their mobile apps, which make searching and editing really easy.

One thing we've been doing for individual retros is to have a table (Agenda, Notes, Action items) for each review, and then doing a quick recap from the previous time at the start of the meeting. This helps maintain some continuity and to build the habit of acting on these feedback items after the end of the meeting.