Luis Ortiz - Catapult Labs Atlassian Partner

Great post! The Agile Metrics Dashboard Gadget provides some really valuable insights that can fuel meaningful team discussions. Sharing these metrics during Agile Retrospectives is a fantastic way to identify patterns, celebrate wins, and uncover opportunities for improvement. We've found that incorporating data-driven…

Great post! Jira is great for remote teams because everything you need (according to your role) is always available. So you can tackle work anytime. Distributed teams benefit the most. The main challenge for Agile coaches, Scrum Master's, etc, most of the time is efficiency of Agile ceremonies (it is super easy to have the…

Completely agree. Sometimes teams tend to think of Retros as a place to vent. One of the great benefits is to actually identify good practices so you can scale them in your organization. One of the learnings we've had over the year from building Agile Retros for Jira

Hi all! I understand you are looking for a solution without using an add-on. But let me suggest our add-on Agile Retrospectives for Jira, since we were also looking for such solution about 6 years ago, and couldn't find something that fit our needs, we got to work on building our own, and have been improving it ever since.…

Hey all! The Atlassian template, while helpful, is very limited. We at Catapult Labs have been working on our Agile Retrospectives for Confluence for over 6 years now, and it's like having Retrospectives on steroids. From a session history, and a record of resulting action items, and even sending action items to jira.…

Hi, all! I'm Luis, with Catapult Labs. We've built the Agile Retrospectives for jira app and we do have a dashboard were you can filter all action items based on user, and wether or not it is marked as finished. A few more filters, and from open or finished retrospective sessions. We have a few other very helpful features…

HI, Sinead! I'm Luis, with the Catapult Labs team. Agile Retros for Jira, just as any other marketplace add-on, is billed based on the number of users active in a Jira instance. The fact is, that is how all of Atlassian-billed apps are billed this way. We know this may not be ideal, but we're open to have a conversation…

Great post! Usually we think that retrospectives are only to fix what went wrong, and we forget to recognize and expand on what went right. Great examples given here. The focus on hard data is also a key part to identify 'what went right' and 'what went wrong'. If you're looking for an add-on to improve the efficiency of…

My team wrote a great blog post about the difference: Agile Retrospectives Vs. Post-Mortem In general, Post Mortems are done by a management team after a project is concluded (Post-Mortem = After-Death). While in #Agile software development, Retrospectives are done at the end of each sprint (or whenever needed) during the…

You can try our Agile Retrospectives for JIRA app. It's very helpful and lets you turn action items into Jira issues (tasks, stories, epics, etc.) 

Using Agile Retros for confluence and the available Jira connector lets you create Jira issues directly from Confluence. Check it out!

We now have the Jira version available and a Jira connector to host retros in Confluence and send the results to Jira! Check them out!

 Hi @Serge Prud'homme & @Seth Taylor While I haven't run into that same situation, I can help. What you can do is to estimate each task and then create sub-tasks for each skill required. I'm going to use the app my team has worked on as an example: Scrum Poker Estimates for Jira In our add-on you can import your backlog…

Anybody from the NYC user group? I'd like to invite you to a workshop called "Building customer-centric apps with Trello" The SoftwareDevTools team is collaborating with Galvanize, Trello & Freshworks to host a very interesting workshop. Here are some topics we will be covering: * Review of the Trello platform. * Board and…

We use a handy bot that we built for Slack & Stride (Goodbye, Stride): Stand.Bot. This automatically asks our distributed team the stand-up questions and they can answer at a convenient time in their time zone and directly reference a JIRA ticket if needed. This has several advantages: -No more standups at crazy hours for…

The gather data step refers to your team: During this step the team members inputs their comments answering each question (What went right?, what could be improved?, etc. Depending on your technique). The topics that'll come up aren't necessarily technical, but personal as well. Our team uses JIRA to make direct reference…

I enjoyed the session and agree that these are the most important topics that the conversation revolved around. For anyone interested in tools: My team is building Atlassian apps for Agile ceremonies in JIRA and Confluence, I'm sure we can help you. Check us…

Hey guys. We've been working with teams that are distributed and in different time zones for a long time. We find that when it comes to efficiency, templates are nice, but can definitely improve. We decided to get to work and have created apps for #Agile ceremonies. We've built Agile Retrospectives for Confluence and for…

We made great use of JIRA software functionality in our Retrospective's app. We even built a JIRA connector for Confluence. Check it out to get some cool ideas: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216054/agile-retrospectives-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

Another handy tool is Scrum Poker for Jira. It's also available for Confluence. 

It really depends on your process. You can integrate it into your workflow if your organization requires some estimates prior to starting any work. You can easily add an additional custom field called story points to your tasks. The field is to to be populated with estimations results and will be visible throughout the…

You can create action items and confluence tasks using Agile Retrospectives for Confluence, we're working on something for JIRA.

My team created an add-on for Agile Retrospectives. You can keep a record of the retrospectives and compare them. What's helpful in our add-on for this matter, is that you can assign owners to the resulting action items and check them off to have visibility of the progress. We are currently working on generating a report,…

Retrospectives are definitely my favorite. Followed closely by the user research exercises we do (They are part of our Agile practice). I love watching people coming up with a way to solve problems. My team created this confluence add-on for Retrospectives. Great for remote teams that can't share a whiteboard. Google docs…

I would also love to see this implemented.