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Parabol

Score9.1 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Parabol?

Parabol is a remote retrospective and meeting app that generates automatic insights about team performance from online collaboration activity.

Categories & Use Cases

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Parabol Feedback

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Parabol in my previous company for a very short time to manage meetings effectively for internal team collaborations as well as for our meetings with our existing clients and prospects. It helped our sales and marketing teams improve meeting conversions and efficiency and become more agile and collaborative.

Pros

  • Digital Kanban boards and sticky notes help in organising information.
  • Agile scheduler helps in easy set up.
  • Notes maker and follow ups easy to schedule and manage.

Cons

  • Integrations with internal tools.
  • Smart Scheduling rules can be much advanced like Calendly.
  • More flexibility for users.

Return on Investment

  • Parabol helped in better collaboration.
  • Parabol improved productivity.
  • Was not high on ROI in monetary terms.

Alternatives Considered

Peoplebox

Other Software Used

Peoplebox

Insightful Retrospectives

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Parabol is an invaluable tool for group collaboration and cohesion with coworkers, enabling seamless virtual retrospectives while working remotely. The retrospectives follow an easy process that helps with moderating and really emphasize what is important at the current moment. Parabol also offers planning poker which I found to be very well designed. The poker impressively shows the votes that have been cast and the final decisions made.

Pros

  • Virtual Retrospectives
  • Teamwork
  • Easy to Use

Cons

  • Intuitive Dashboard
  • More Template Options
  • Managing Multiple Teams

Return on Investment

  • Better Teamwork
  • Improved Collaboration
  • Fewer Workplace Conflicts

Alternatives Considered

Trello and Miro

Other Software Used

Trello, Miro, Coda