by Enough has been said already about this topic, so my intention here is not to suggest another one. The idea here for me is to present a tool for Sprint Retrospective meetings which has served our team very well.
So this blog should be read as How To Run Sprint Retrospective Using Poll Everywhere Tool.
And why just retrospectives, you could use it for various purposes including interesting activities for any virtual meeting members, gathering insights real time from a team and so on.
The tool is called Polls Everywhere. You could set up a poll or question set on the browser or download the app on your iPhone (or Android).
It’s a bit of a monster in the beginning in terms of getting a handle on it, but if you run a simple Poll once, you will become familiar with it.
All you have to do is share a weblink where the team can share their inputs or cast their votes. The best part is to see the graphs or votes going up and down real time on a shared screen with your team while they keep sharing their inputs.
Here are the links:
Coming back to using this tool to run retrospective, I have the three classic questions set up as Q&A type, which allows the users to provide their retro inputs while at the same time seeing all inputs from other users which they can vote on, all in real time.
Here’s an image that’ll clarify this:
Until next time, this is Mohit signing off.