How it Works
Empowering Value-add Conversations
Flexible Approaches
- Traditional - Empty board filled with recollection of what happened in the last period.
- Live Pulse Assisted - Auto-populated board on the basis of a team journal snapshots; Create board cards from periodic stand-downs.
Maximizing Conversations
Live pulse model provides a much more accurate representation of reality, whilst also reducing ritualism.
Reduce or do away with the chore of manually creating conversation cards for the sake of ritual..
Data-Driven Insights at Scale
- All conversation cards can be tagged with themes and a measure of impact.
- Feedback aggregator makes it easy to get a reading across any collection of retrospectives - projects, teams, partners, whole organization.
Retrospective Board
Feedback Aggregator
F E A T U R E S
Fun, Insightful & Powerful
Higher Quality of Feedback
Empower people to post feedback in the heat of the moment directly from Slack and Microsoft Teams, at the points when it happens. Feedback is measurable and contextual from the start.
Seamless Theming
Themes are created when people add "impact" of feedback to cards. This saves a lot of time and makes categorization easy.
Conversation Focused Mode
Unique feature to have a specific card in focus mode and ability to mark cards as discussed.
Easy Executive Summary
Automated summary of your retrospective event with ability to add callouts per theme.
Humour and Psychological Safety
Add Giphy to break the ice. "When you intend to be honest with someone, make sure they laugh".
Storytelling and Learning
Tell the story with aggregated report across all retrospectives and integrated trends chart within each retrospective. Link retrospective events to external materials.
Customization
Customize discussion swim-lanes and styles, create re-useable templates, set "Focus Themes" for easy feedback flow
Breakout Rooms
Create easy to use break out rooms for the retrospective conversation event.
Access Management
Make the retrospective accessible only by specifically invited guests, members of the reflection space, or open for external partners.
Innovate by replacing ritualism with real conversation
Consider using a
Live Pulse Team Journal as the main channel for feedback. Retrospective feedback cards can be created from team journal entries.
Servant Ai Assistants
- Create conversation cards built from ongoing team journal experience posts
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Leverage Ai assistant for reducing ritualism or for creating a useful executive summary of the retrospective. Create retro feedback cards built from ongoing team journal experience posts. Imagine inviting a team to retrospective events where less time is spent recollecting things.
AUTO-POPULATED RETROSPECTIVE FEEDBACK
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The Why
In the agile environment, retrospectives are crucial for refining team culture and fostering continuous improvement. Unfortunately, even the most well-intended retrospectives can quickly lose their sparkle, morphing into tedious rituals that bore team members and stifle creativity. When retrospectives become mere routine, they fail to inspire meaningful conversations and genuine progress.
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How to Improve Retrospectives
With Live Pulse, team members document their thoughts, challenges, and triumphs in real-time, capturing the ongoing pulse of your collective journey. These insights are then turned into curated discussion cards for your Retrospective Board, ensuring each session covers relevant and pressing topics. Say goodbye to repetitive feedback and predictable conversations—instead, welcome rich, timely dialogue that invigorates team culture and drives actionable outcomes.
Retrospective board integrated with ongoing Team Journal
- When you open an empty retrospective board, Neelix will ask if you would like to auto-create feedback cards based on team journal entries
- If you choose to proceed, Neelix will create a card per theme reflected on in team's journal, and will link all relevant experiences to feedback cards for easy discussion
Neelix.IO Retrospectives provide a data-driven, yet engaging and human-centered way to challenge the status quo.
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
Additional ideas for improving employee engagement
Word Cloud
Play a fun Word Cloud game as a team or even a whole organization. It is a great way to talk about themes, brainstorm or simply have a good laugh.
Conversation Bubbles
Skip formal retrospecitve boards once in a while and leverage interactive conversation bubbles drawn from ongoing Team Journal. Spend more time on dialoque.
Team Activism
Team activists are trusted and well-versed in company culture and operations offer invaluable insights and can facilitate vibrant conversations.