# Off/On shore retrospective tool

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340>\
**Category:** Archive\
**Tags:** tools\
**Created:** [21 February 2018 08:58 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340 "2018-02-21T08:58:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![kimberley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kimberley/32/9186_2.png) [@kimberley](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kimberley)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2018 08:58 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/1 "2018-02-21T08:58:37Z")

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Question 🤔

What tool (if any) does your company use for running retro’s specifically if your team is co/on/off-shore located?

Previously all our team was co-located so it was a white board.

Any thoughts? I was looking at this one [goReflect](https://www.goreflect.com/)

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**Author:** ![mark\_coulson01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mark_coulson01/32/1737_2.png) [@mark\_coulson01](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mark_coulson01)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2018 10:28 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/2 "2018-02-21T10:28:17Z")

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We have found Trello really useful.

John Barratt did a talk on Retrospectives for distributed teams at Agile Cambridge which had lots of useful ideas:

> **[Retrospectives for distributed teams](https://www.slideshare.net/JohnBarratt7/retrospectives-for-distributed-teams)**
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> We all know successful retrospectives are a key part of any successful agile team or in fact any Organisation for that matter, but most of the facilitation met…

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**Author:** ![kimberley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kimberley/32/9186_2.png) [@kimberley](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kimberley)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2018 11:32 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/3 "2018-02-21T11:32:25Z")

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thanks @mark_coulson01 will definitely look into Trello

Cheers K

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**Author:** ![gemma.hill1987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/gemma.hill1987/32/2426_2.png) [@gemma.hill1987](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/gemma.hill1987)\
**Post date:** [21 February 2018 19:27 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/4 "2018-02-21T19:27:55Z")

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[https://funretro.io/#/](https://funretro.io/#/) has a free option and is nicely flexible and can be worked on by multiple people at the same time, has voting and things like that. Really nice tool that we use with our partly remote team

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**Author:** ![kimberley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kimberley/32/9186_2.png) [@kimberley](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kimberley)\
**Post date:** [22 February 2018 11:28 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/5 "2018-02-22T11:28:50Z")

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thanks Gem will totally look into it 👍

Hope things are going awesome for you

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**Author:** ![xouille92i](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/3e96dc/32.png) [@xouille92i](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/xouille92i)\
**Post date:** [1 July 2019 17:02 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/6 "2019-07-01T17:02:43Z")

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Hi Kimberley,

We’ve developed [draft.io](http://draft.io) as a visual and highly flexible collaborative document format.

[Draft.io](http://Draft.io) experiences a great success from tech professionals seeking to run remote retrospectives because they can easily create, import, or use a wide range of templates. In addition to that, any post-it can be “votable” if needed.

Hope it helps!  
Cheers

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**Author:** ![devtotest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/devtotest/32/2857_2.png) [@devtotest](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/devtotest)\
**Post date:** [1 July 2019 17:42 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/7 "2019-07-01T17:42:16Z")

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Cool question, @kimberley!

We use Skype for Business or WebEx. In one project, we were able to use a web camera (one that provided a good picture to the receiving team members) during our stand ups.

I suspect we will soon be experimenting with Team Foundation Server for sharing a white board.

Joe

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**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2020 13:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/off-on-shore-retrospective-tool/13340/8 "2020-08-20T13:39:55Z")

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This conversation popped up on Slack this week so some perhaps newer tools suggested:

- Miro
- [stickies.io](http://stickies.io/) as digital sticky wall
- [Mural](https://www.mural.co/)
- [https://retrotool.app](https://retrotool.app/)
- [https://www.teamretro.com/](https://www.teamretro.com/)
- Retrium