Features
More Effective Agile Meetings
Run great agile meetings, whether you’re a pro facilitator or just starting out
Bring Agile Meetings to Life
Parabol puts remote and in-person meeting participants on equal footing, so you can get your team talking and improving.
Digital Boards and Cards
Take charge of your remote meetings with digital Kanban boards, sticky notes, and Planning Poker™ cards. Bring your work to life in a structured online space that’s accessible to team-mates near and far.
Templates
Pick from 40+ popular formats for retrospectives and estimation meetings. Save time preparing for your meetings with well-known favorites like Stop, Start, Continue for retros and the Fibonacci scale for estimates or get creative by building your own templates.
Multiplayer Participation
Get the whole team involved in meetings with multiplayer drag-and-drop cards, live task editing, dynamic Agenda Items, emoji reactions, and even discussion threads for quieter team-mates.
Automated Meeting Summaries
Receive an automatic summary at the end of your meeting, so you don’t have to take notes. Catch up quickly if you missed a meeting and track your team’s continuous improvement process.
Get More Done With Focused Discussions
With just a video call, digital whiteboard or shared screen, teams quickly get off track and lose sight of the discussion. Keep teams on track with a structured process and a purpose-built co-pilot.
Timers
Keep the conversation on track with a built-in timer. Limit a discussion topic to a few minutes, or set a deadline to gather feedback over a few days or a whole sprint.
Discussion Threads
Add comments, reply to ideas and react with emoji in your meetings. Use discussion threads to take notes about interesting insights, make suggestions, or ask questions without interrupting the flow of conversation.
Takeaway Tasks
Create tasks in Parabol during your discussion and sync them with the tools you already use. Save the effort of logging tasks after meetings.
Build Connections with Your Team
Facilitated Icebreakers (Optional)
Get your team talking with an icebreaker question. Try a randomly selected question at the start of the meeting or get creative and fill in your own. Create a positive atmosphere for your team and build psychological safety.
Team Health Check
Run a lightweight poll at the start of your meeting to check the mood of the room and set the stage. Team members’ votes are revealed anonymously to protect psychological safety.
Anonymity
Encourage open and honest contributions with anonymous retro reflections. Team members can even add anonymous comments in Discussion Threads.
Integrate with Tools You Already Use
Chat
Add the Slack or Mattermost integrations to notify your teammates when meetings begin and end.
CSV Export
Export your comments, reflections and tasks for further analysis
Enterprise-ready Security
- Open Source and Secure: Parabol is open-source and our source code is scrutinized by a growing online community of developers.
- SAML Single Sign-On: Make it easier for team members to sign-in and give yourself more control over authentication.
- Public or On-Prem Hosting: Choose where and how you want to host Parabol.
All your agile meetings in one place
Make the most of your meetings
Stay inclusive, keep everyone in the loop, and strengthen team culture in-person, remote, or hybrid
Built for Modern Work: Remote, Async and Mobile-First
Connect profoundly in a digital space
Bring your facilitation tools into a digital workspace, and collaborate deeply with your team, wherever they are. Everything an agile team is used to having in an office is ready for you in Parabol.
Engage in your own time
Participate in agile meetings in your own time, wherever or whenever that might be. Open activities early and set deadlines for participation. Use discussion threads to add comments in your own time. Then, spend your valuable synchronous time on the conversation.
Do it all from a browser, even on your phone
Teams on-the-go don’t want to download extra tools or be stuck at a desk. Parabol is a mobile-first browser app, so you can join your team from your phone, tablet or any other device without downloading a thing.
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