Retrospectives · Included with Pro
Sprint retrospective toolRun the retro without the setup.
One click opens a ready retro board — six columns, a shared timer, and voting — with last retro's action items carried forward so accountability survives the sprint.
How a retro runs
Open a board
Name it, date it, and you're running: six ready-made columns — Kudos, Liked, Disliked, Questions, Discussion, Actions — with nothing to configure.
Run the meeting
A shared countdown timer keeps the room honest — everyone sees the same clock. Items behave like normal cards: add, edit, move between columns, and upvote the ones worth discussing.
Leave with actions
Capture follow-ups in the Actions column. Next retro, link the previous board and its actions appear as a read-only "Past actions" column — so last sprint's promises face the room.
Everything the ceremony needs
Six columns, zero setup
One proven format instead of a template gallery: Kudos, Liked, Disliked, Questions, Discussion, Actions. Open a board and start talking.
A shared ceremony timer
Set minutes and seconds, start, pause — every participant sees the same clock, with clear flags when it's paused or nearly out.
Vote on what matters
Thumbs-up items to rank what deserves the discussion time — dot-voting without the dots.
Action items that survive
Link the previous retro and its Actions column shows up read-only, labeled with its date — accountability carried across sprints.
A browsable retro history
Every retro the project has run, as a tile grid with names, dates, and participants — the team's improvement record, not a pile of lost boards.
Runs like your board
Retro items are cards on columns — the same drag, edit, and open interactions your team already knows from the kanban board.
Why run retros inside the tracker?
Most retro tools compete on template count — 50 formats, icebreakers, weather metaphors. But the teams that improve don't need a new format every sprint; they need the same honest conversation, held regularly, with the action items actually followed up. The tooling problem was never creativity — it's that the retro happens in one tool and the work in another, so actions evaporate on contact with Monday.
AgileHero ships retrospectives inside the tracker, with one deliberately opinionated format: six columns that make teams talk, a shared timer, and voting to focus the discussion. The part other tools miss is continuity — link last retro's board and its action items appear in front of the room, read-only and dated. Improvement becomes a thread you can follow, not a stack of forgotten exports.
What is a sprint retrospective?
A sprint retrospective is the meeting a team holds at the end of each sprint to look at how the work went — not what was built, but how it felt to build it. What went well, what dragged, what should change next sprint. It is the ceremony that makes agile self-correcting: without it, teams repeat the same friction every two weeks and call it process.
A good retro needs surprisingly little: a place to collect thoughts, a way to find out which ones the whole team feels, and owners for what changes. That is the shape of AgileHero's retro board — columns to fill, dot-votes to surface the real issues, a shared timer to keep it honest, and action items that leave the meeting as owned cards, with last retro's actions waiting at the top of the next one.
Common questions
Are retrospectives free?
Retrospectives are part of Pro — and fully included in every 14-day trial. Estimation poker, the other ceremony tool, is free on every plan.
Do I need to pick or configure a format?
No — every board opens with the same six ready-made columns: Kudos, Liked, Disliked, Questions, Discussion, Actions. One proven format, zero setup, by design.
How does voting work?
Anyone can thumbs-up a retro item; the counts show which topics the team wants to spend discussion time on.
What happens to action items?
They live in the Actions column, and the next retro can link the previous board so those actions appear as a read-only "Past actions" column labeled with its date.
Can I look back at old retros?
Yes — a dedicated index lists every retro board with its name, date, and participants, newest first, and new boards created by teammates appear without a reload.
What's the difference between a sprint review and a retrospective?
They look back at the same sprint from different angles. The sprint review is about the product: the team shows what was built to stakeholders and gathers feedback on the work itself. The retrospective is about the team: no stakeholders, just an honest look at how the sprint went and what to change — which is the meeting AgileHero's retro boards are built for.
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