Why is Echometer better than Parabol for agile retrospectives?

Echometer is better than Parabol for conducting agile retrospectives (also “Sprint Retrospectives”) because, in addition to the Retro Board, Echometer offers a wider range of features that make life easier for Scrum Masters and team managers:

• Better Retro Effectiveness: Retrospectives with Echometer are very effective. You can even measure that: At the end of each retrospective in Echometer, the team is asked about the ROTI, i.e. the “Return on Time Invested”. This ensures that you maintain the quality and effectiveness of your retrospectives in Echometer in the long term. Parabol does not have such a mechanism.
• More flexibility in Echometer: In Echometer, you can use integrated whiteboards during retrospectives to discuss individual topics in a focused way and derive measures for them. You can also create your own whiteboard templates and use them flexibly in your retrospectives. Parabol is not as flexible as Echometer and does not offer integrated whiteboards for retrospectives.
• Long-term team health trends: In Echometer, team development can also be easily tracked over time via the Health Checks team. You can even collect and evaluate overarching metrics in Echometer via Workspace Health.
• Automatic pulse check surveys: In Echometer, you can automate regular team health surveys and rotate topics automatically. In Parabol, you have to manually create a meeting for each data collection.
• It is also not possible to create dashboards of agile pulse surveys as a mood barometer (or Agile / Scrum Health Check) over time.

As a manager, Echometer is therefore probably more effective, more flexible and more time-saving for you than Parabol. Ultimately, of course, your team has to help decide which tool they prefer for retrospectives. So here’s an important tip: simply try out both tools with your team. Because both tools have a free plan: Try Echometer for free without login.

You can see for yourself in the free trial why Echometer is better than Parabol for agile retrospectives and why many users of both tools say Echometer is “by far the best tool for online retrospectives”.