Guided retrospectives with 16 templates and a shared stage timer

Retrospectives are rebuilt as a guided retro room. Pick a template, and the room walks the team through each stage on a shared timer, from writing notes to agreeing on retro actions.

The Retrospectives menu in each project now opens the new module.

A new retro is open for notes from the moment it's created, so people can add notes before it starts. The facilitator then starts from a check-in, or reveals the notes and goes straight to grouping.

The most important parts of this release:

• Pick one of 16 templates in four categories: Classic, Keep & change, Metaphor, and Milestones & appreciation. The columns come from the template.
• Notes are anonymous by default, and the server enforces it. Other people's notes stay hidden until the reveal, and in an anonymous retro nobody, the facilitator included, can see who wrote a note.
• When writing ends, notes are grouped automatically, and the team can drag them into other groups. A group, or a note on its own, is a topic.
• Voting is blind and budgeted: each person's budget is sized to the number of topics, fixed, or unlimited. Nobody sees the totals until the facilitator opens the discussion.
• The discussion follows the votes, and a parking lot carries unfinished topics to the next retro.
• Retro actions carry assignees and a status on one project-wide list. Any action becomes a card on the board in one click, never automatically.
• A retro that starts from a check-in then reviews the open actions from earlier retros, unless there's nothing to review or the template has no review stage.

Retrospectives are part of Pro.