Metro Retro

Metro Retro is an online whiteboard tool designed to facilitate efficient, agile, and remote meetings. According to the vendor, it provides a collaborative platform for teams to conduct retrospectives, remote meetings, and various agile processes. It aims to support product management, strategy, planning, project management, workshops, coaching, team formation, health checks, and design collaboration. Metro Retro caters to teams of all sizes, from small teams to large enterprises. It is utilized by professionals such as Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, and Designers across various industries including Technology, Software Development, Consulting, Marketing, and Education.

Key Features

Retrospectives: According to the vendor, Metro Retro enables teams to conduct productive retrospectives with illustrated templates, private writing, grouping, voting, and actions.

Remote Meetings: The vendor states that Metro Retro facilitates remote meetings with a sense of collaboration through dynamic arrows, annotations, and confetti. It offers private writing for brainstorming, grouped and voted ideas, facilitator controls, and visually appealing stickies.

Agile Processes: Metro Retro provides templates for Lean Coffee, Planning Poker, T-shirt estimation, story point estimation, prioritization, and progress tracking, according to the vendor.

Product Management: The vendor claims that Metro Retro offers templates for product roadmaps, lean canvas, prioritization matrix, user journey mapping, and more. It aims to assist in defining product goals, planning releases, and coordinating development and launch.

Strategy & Planning: Metro Retro provides templates for mind maps, SWOT analysis, team canvas, and value proposition canvas, according to the vendor. It aims to facilitate idea generation, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, and definition of strategic goals.

Project Management: According to the vendor, Metro Retro offers templates for Eisenhower Matrix, incident postmortem, Ishikawa exercise, and meeting agenda. It aims to support prioritization, root cause analysis, risk assessment, and task tracking.

Workshops & Coaching: The vendor states that Metro Retro provides templates for energy levels, kudos tree, team mood thermometer, and more. It aims to facilitate icebreaker activities, expression of opinions, appreciation, and assessment of team mood.

Team Forming & Health Checks: Metro Retro offers templates for two truths, one lie; weather report check-in; rose, thorn & bud check-in; and team skills ranking, according to the vendor. It aims to support trust-building, encourage participation, reflection on positive and negative aspects, and assessment of team skills.

Design Collaboration: According to the vendor, Metro Retro provides templates for user story mapping, user personas, and user journey mapping. It aims to assist in understanding user needs, mapping interactions, and enhancing user experience.