What is the Retro Tool?
The Retro Tool is a digital retrospective board for agile teams. Teams add items, vote on the most important points via dot voting, and formulate commitments from the discussion. Those commitments are automatically stored in Iterr’s central Commitments layer — visible across sprints, not just inside the retro itself.
The tool supports four formats:
- Glad / Sad / Mad
- Start / Stop / Continue
- 4Ls (Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For)
- Went Well / Even Better If
Configuring your own format is also possible.
How does the Retro Tool work in Iterr?
The facilitator opens a retro session from the sprint page and picks a format. Team members add items from their own browser — simultaneously, in real time, without waiting for a shared screen. Then comes dot voting: everyone assigns votes to the items they find most relevant.
After the discussion, the facilitator records the commitments. Soft locking gives the facilitator or RTE control over who can still edit during the session. After closing, items are sorted by votes and the commitments are visible in the sprint overview and in the team’s actions list.
What do you use the Retro Tool for?
- Facilitating retrospectives without a whiteboard or external tool
- Collecting items anonymously and prioritising them via dot voting
- Recording commitments and automatically forwarding them to the central actions layer
- Looking back at earlier retros and checking which agreements were kept
Who is it for?
The Retro Tool is meant for Scrum Masters, agile coaches and teams who take retrospectives seriously — and who want the agreements made there to actually be tracked.