Changelog

What's new?

- New look for the Retrospective board settings

- New look for the Team management page

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This month we're celebrating GoRetro's makeover completion 🎨 and it isn't just about beauty 🤩

What’s new:

🏠 Boards are easier to create with the new redesigned creation modals.

📝 Export your estimations and notes from Planning Poker directly to Jira!

😎 Select new anonymity and voting options when creating new boards

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Excited to share the brand new GoRetro dashboard 🎉🎉

The new dashboard has everything you need to plan, monitor, and retrospect, to make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun.

What’s new:

• Find all your sprint activities in one place, not just retros.
• Brand new side navigation
• Focus on one team at a time - use the team selector to see all your team’s board or public boards.
• Quick access to create retrospectives, capacity calculators and planning poker games. 

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Planning poker

Comments in planning poker - During your planning poker game you might find that important discussions are taking place. Don't let these important inputs get lost! The notes feature allows you to add details to an issue, giving the developer who is going to work on this issue a head start with the notes taken in the meeting.

Focus mode merge cards

You can now drag cards in focus mode to merge them together! 

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Always wanted to make your other meetings as fun and productive as your GoRetro Retrospectives?

👉 Now, it's easy!

Check out our new templates for running incident post-mortems, project planning, quarterly retros, performance reviews, and more.

Planning poker

You can now create your own custom deck when playing Planning Poker!

Capacity calculator

Maximize your sprint predictability with brand-new capacity calculator options:

🏃‍♀️ Running average velocity per developer

📦 Carryover data per team member

🎨 Customize columns to match your unique requirements

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Sprint Pro release

GoRetro is your one-stop solution for running successful and valuable sprints. Our new planning poker game and capacity calculator make it easy to create unbiased estimates and plan your team's capacity, while integration with Jira streamlines your workflow. Give us a try and see the difference in your next sprint!

1. Our new planning poker game helps your team create unbiased estimations using your real tasks while sparing you a lot of time.
2. The capacity calculator includes proven capacity templates with plenty of criteria to consider in order to realize the accurate capacity per engineer for each sprint. Try it out, your next sprint will be so much more predictable!

Deeper Jira integration

1. Give our Capacity Calculator a spin and enjoy proven capacity criteria to consider, including real work data from Jira such as velocity and carry over, for more accurate planning.
2. Check out our Planning Poker for an unbiased, quick estimation game, using your Jira tasks to make it even easier!
3. Use the Sprint Monitoring to optimize on time, and raise red flags or happy updates.

New Templates

We added some awesome retro templates! From Oscar Academy Awards to Hot Air Balloon, we have something for every team. End the year with a bang and impress your team with our fun, unique retro templates.

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Polls 📊

Quickly create a poll and get your team’s thoughts in minutes. Make it easy for your team to share their opinions with minimal interruptions. No need to leave GoRetro. Get your team’s feedback by letting them simply cast a vote in a poll or answer questions in a survey. Learn more here.

Card Tags 🏷️

Analyze your retrospective topics and identify themes and patterns. Tags are a great way to organize your team's feedback and keep track of recurring themes.  Examples of tags can be released, processes, quality, design, and many more. Learn all about this here.

Meeting Recap

Export a recap of your retrospective to share with your team and stakeholders. Get up-to-date if you missed a meeting and track your team's continuous improvement. Learn more about our next gen meeting summarization here.

Action Item Email Notification

Choose an assignee who will own this action item. An email will be sent to the assignee with relevant details regarding the action item. Learn more about action items here.

Clone Board With Cards

Click on "Clone" and select either "With cards" or "Without cards".  "With cards" will create a copy of the board with the same name, description, columns, and cards. "Without cards" will create the same copy without the board's cards. Make sure you update the new board's settings if needed. Learn more about editing boards here.

Text Formatting, Gifs and Links

You can now make the card text bold, italic, and even underlined. Insert links right into the cards and use a GIF to express yourself. 

Kudos Column

Praise your fellow teammates for an achievement with this all-newly developed template feature. 

Action Items ⚡

Continuous improvement starts by choosing the most pressing action items and tracking their execution and impact. We are excited to ship our brand new action items️.

They got a new look, a nice dedicated spot on the board, and action items from previous retrospectives are now also available on your current board!

To add an action item simply click on the ⚡ icon on the relevant card.
When starting your next retro, no need to add an "action item" column! Open the action items drawer, review action items from previous retros, and add new ones as required. Read more here.

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Sprint Monitor Updates

Analyze your Sprints to identify trends, track improvements and uncover stumbling blocks. Save time on technical preparation and focus on what's critical - getting better. With the latest update to the sprint monitor you can learn which bugs were added mid-sprint. You can also analyze "done tasks by type" and have a more focused discussion with your teammates.

Bugs, bugs, bugs

• 🐛 Scrolling the page while dragging a card should not take us to "another dimension" and just work as expected.
• 🪲 Users should see their votes, even if votes are hidden.
• 🐞 Dragging cards while sorting by votes will work now.

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Facilitated Icebreakers

Get your team talking with an icebreaker question. Try a randomly selected question at the start of the meeting. Create a positive atmosphere for your team and build psychological safety. Click the ❄️ in the board to give it a spin.

Sharing Boards

Sharing is caring, and now it's even easier to bring colleagues on board. From the board, click on "Share Board" and start collaborating.

Jira Cycle Time

Cycle time refers to the time elapsed between the moment a task is started, and its conclusion. It is a measure of how long it takes from when work starts on an item (story, task, bug, etc.) until it is delivered. Cycle time indicates how long (in calendar time) it takes to complete a task.

Now you can get a full breakdown cycle time per status and task in the sprint. This can give you a better indication of what you spend the majority of your time on. Is it coding or review time? Maybe you need to allocate more resources for the review or refresh the priorities?

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Sprint Monitor release!

Supercharge your retro with our JIRA integration. Say goodbye to juggling countless spreadsheets and tabs. Use your real-time Sprint data to run better retros and improve your team’s performance. 

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Get clarity on what's happening, identify gaps in planning and see what your team really spends their time on. 

Analyze your Sprints to identify trends, track improvements and uncover stumbling blocks. Save time on technical preparation and focus on what's important - getting better.

Join our live webinar to learn more about it!

Analytics page refresh

This analytics page has been updated with a modern design and enriched with more information, such as average happiness score and number of voters.

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Overall board design changes 

Now you can read, comment, and vote on your favorite cards more easily than ever before. 

Cards can be merged and unmerged

Do you have duplicate cards? That's fine. It's just a matter of dragging and dropping.

Feeling regretful? We've got you covered! Simply click the new "Unmerge" button to go back in time

Sort and filter the action item table

Sort and filter the table by clicking on the column name. You can now select only those items that are in progress, done, or filter them by team and board.

Bug fixes (we also have them)

• Fixed invitation by email link when the email address contains special characters
• Editing cards with special characters has been improved
• Clicking outside now saves the card. Yeah, that makes more sense!

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Easier to add cards:

• Submit a card or a comment by pressing “Enter” on your keyboard. Break a line with Shift+Enter. No need to move your cursor anymore!
  

Happiness index:

• Our new and improved Happiness index now includes a 1-5 scale.

Support:

• Quickly get to our Help center by clicking your name, then choosing “Help center”.
• Fixed an issue with exporting boards on Safari broswer.

GoRetro redesign:

• We decided it’s time for a facelift, so we’re happy to launch GoRetro’s redesign!

New chat support:

• We upgraded our chat to provide the best efficient support for you. Try it out and reach out to us at any time with questions and feedback. Our replies will appear both in-app and will also be sent to your email for your convenience.

Action items page:

• Added the card title to the action items table

Board view:

• Added an option to filter the cards by team member

• New and improved export to PDF format which now includes all comments, votes and action items.
• Following several users' requests - improved the cards drag and drop feature - it is now less sensitive and the drag option is not available while editing a card.
• Added an option to drag and change the columns order

• Change view permissions of happiness index to Admins - now admins can view team’s happiness index

Action items view:

• Action items of archived boards are now available and active (unlike before)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue with special characters representation
• Fixed a participant filtering issue - when a team member adds a card while the board is filtered, the filter will apply on the new comment
• Several UI fixes

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Board view:

• Added an option to see which team members are online - look for the green outline and full opacity of the team member’s icon.

• Added an option to add a description to action items - as you change a card to action item, you now have the ability to add a specific description to describe the action required

Action items page:

• Added an option to edit the action items description in Actions page

Bug fixes:

• Restricted the ability to copy-paste of a “hidden text” when you try to hide the cards’ content
• Fixed an issue with the team member filtering, now when you add a new comment of a filtered user the cad will not appear until the filter is removed
• Fixed several UI and spacing issues

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Board view:

• Added an option to filter the board by team member.

• Added a numeric indication to the Happiness Index feature (for board owners).

Action items page:

• Added filters by Team and by action item Status
  

• Added an option to trash old/not relevant/done action items
  

Bug fixes

• Changed the opacity of the edit card button so it won’t hide the text
• Fixed the “hide voting” feature to hide all voting indications
• Fixed the long boards descriptions issue of lines not breaking
• Fixed icon and username alignments
• Fixed several typos in the tool

Public boards

• Added the ability to view a shared public board also without having a user in GoRetro

General

• Added new board templates

Bug fixes

• Fixed session error
• Fixed UI problem with long cards
• Fixed “Feedback request from team” feature
• Fixed export to CSV issue