Parabol Reviews

What do you like best about Parabol?Love using Parabol for my team's planning poker. Easy to connect to JIRA, pull the user stories in and write back the story points values once the discussion is complete. What do you dislike about Parabol?The team loves it, and the summary is helpful!Recommendations to others considering Parabol?Would be nice to have more templates for other ceremonies lWhat problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?Planning poker

What do you like best about Parabol?I like being able to run sprint poker sessions with parabol.What do you dislike about Parabol?I wish the link to share with teammates was unique to the meeting I'm using and didn't dynamically change each time I navigated away from the screen.What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?Sprit poker hosting

What do you like best about Parabol?Parabol has been one of the best retrospectives tool I've ever used. Especially as a product with a free tier option, the benefits are unmatched! What do you dislike about Parabol?The format of Parabol makes it the ideal tool for teams that are spread across multiple time zones. Recommendations to others considering Parabol?It has been a great way to get all team members engaged in our Scrum ceremonies such as Backlog Refinement, Stand-up, Retrospectives, and more. What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?The integrations with JIRA and Teams have been super valuable for us and make meetings a lot smoother.

What do you like best about Parabol?Love the ice breaker and the smooth UI/UX.What do you dislike about Parabol?Would be great if can have back ground music option!What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?It helps the software development team to conduct retrospective sessions in a fun and effective way.

What do you like best about Parabol?We use Parabol for the scrum retrospective and scrum estimation. For the retro, we really like using Parabol because it makes it easy for everyone to provide feedback, and we can easily group, prioritize, and discuss the feedback. For estimation, Parabol is also very pleasant to use because it walks us through the issues to be estimated one by one, and it can automatically process the estimated story points into Jira.What do you dislike about Parabol?It's great that summaries are automatically generated, but unfortunately I (as the facilitator) can't specify that those summaries shouldn't be sent to everyone. Team members can, however, set it up themselves so they don't receive emails. Recommendations to others considering Parabol?I would be great if we could use Parabol for the PI event as well, but that is not possible yet.What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?-

What do you like best about Parabol?It's very use to use and so quick to set up meetings. I like how easy it is to create actions during discussions and capture everyones thoughts it one single location. The email summaries are useful for when you miss a meeting.What do you dislike about Parabol?I wish there was an option to play background music (like in FigJam). Sometimes the silence while everyone is typing out their responses is a big void.What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?Solves a bunch of problems around planning for retros, creating a agendas, and taking notes / assigning actions. Parabol does it all for you.

What do you like best about Parabol?We use Parabol mainly for weekly retrospectives. It's very intuitive, easy to introduce new members to it and facilates discussions. What do you dislike about Parabol? Recommendations to others considering Parabol?The main reason I like parabol is because is a way to involve everybody without making feel force. Also every one can come up with good/bad things without being influenced previously. What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?

What do you like best about Parabol?We had been using Parabol for a long time, since we found it to be very helpful in streamlining retrospectives and sprint estimation meetings. We then had an aggressive "belt-tightening" string of budget cuts, to which Parabol fell victim. We tried many alternatives. It got to the point that we fought to bring Parabol back, and everyone was very happy that we won back the ability to use it. The icebreakers are great conversation starters to start the meeting off positively. The ability to add discussions to every card in the form of comments and reactions is one of the reasons we fought for it. The ability to vote, to group, discuss things by rank... All if it is great. The interface is mostly intuitive and people find it simple to use. Getting going with it is simple because of it. We use Parabol for every single one of our retros. We no longer do Scrum, but when we did the Jira integration was vital to the setting of story points on tickets, and I can't imagine having to do it manually. I don't believe we've ever needed customer support, which is a good sign, but if the support is like the rest of everything, I'm sure it's great also.What do you dislike about Parabol?I would say the "Ready" button in Parabol (where users indicate they're ready) could be more intelligent. For example, when selecting how you feel about work, when users have selected something then it could mark them as ready automatically. Furthermore, alerts for users that still have votes left during voting could probably be more prominent. We found that oftentimes someone will not vote but we sit around until the timer runs out because of it. This is mostly a "people problem", but I think something could be done about this in the app to ease the issue.What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?Organizing large retrospectives is made so much easier with Parabol. We spend much less time on meeting dynamics and more time on content.

What do you like best about Parabol?We've mostly used it for the retro meetings it gives everyone a chance to add topics of discussion and avoids needing to call anyone out to provide feedback. Allows to create trackable tasks that come out of the discussions for each topic along with notes that we can refer back to during the next sprint.What do you dislike about Parabol?Don't really have any criticisms about it it's a really useful tool for team meetings with plenty of stuff that I probably havn't even tried out yet.What problems is Parabol solving and how is that benefiting you?Having productive and focused retrospectives to help our team improve is a must and