Not every refinement is equally valuable. Not every retrospective delivers what it should. ROTI — Return On Time Invested — is the module that asks one simple question after every ceremony: was the time we spent here well spent? The answer, summarised across a sprint, tells you exactly which sessions deliver value and which are due for a redesign.
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ROTI stands for Return On Time Invested — a well-known agile practice where participants rate the value they personally got out of a session. In Iterr that’s a score from 1 to 5:
1 = complete waste of time • 5 = highly valuable
Iterr records the score per session, including its duration. Per sprint you see the average per session type; across sprints you see trends.
At the end of a ceremony — sprint planning, daily, review, retrospective or refinement — the facilitator opens a ROTI round. Participants give their score. It takes less than thirty seconds.
Iterr stores the scores and automatically turns them into a bar chart per session in the sprint overview. That makes visible which ceremonies consistently score high and which structurally lag behind — without it having to be a personal attack on the facilitator.
ROTI is meant for Scrum Masters, agile coaches and RTEs who want to improve their ceremony hygiene based on data — not on gut feeling or assumptions.
