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How does Parabol work?

Step-by-step explanation, short explainer videos and practical guides

Step-by-Step Guide

Parabol is with you on every step of your agile journey to give structure to your meetings and get your team talking and moving forward faster

Choose a meeting type and one of our 90+ pre-built templates

Run fun, engaging meetings with our ready-to-use templates for Retrospectives, Estimation Meetings, Daily Standups, and more. Or get creative by building your own templates.

Tailor your meeting to fit your team’s unique needs

Kick off your meeting with an icebreaker, gauge the team’s mood with a quick pulse check, and/or facilitate anonymous retrospectives to foster open and honest feedback.

Let Parabol facilitate your meeting and focus on collaborating with your team

Get more done with focused discussions, minimizing the hassle of meeting prep and follow-up time.

Capture takeaway tasks directly in your preferred backlog management tool

Create tasks in Parabol during your discussion and sync them seamlessly with the tools you already use, like Jira and GitHub. Save the effort of logging tasks after meetings by integrating directly with your existing workflow.

Keep a pulse on team health between meetings

Schedule a recurring Team Health check: five research-backed questions, answered anonymously in about two minutes. Scores reveal when the check closes, with the change since last time and a five-check trend, so the team can see whether what they tried in the retro is working.

Parabol Team Health result for Psychological Safety: 4.0 out of 5, up 0.4 from 3.6 last cycle, with a trend line across the last five checks and this check's 1–5 answer spread from 6 answers

Explore Parabol Hands-On—It’s Free!

If you want to learn more about how Parabol works, sign up and explore it for yourself! Parabol is free forever for up to 2 teams. Yup, totally free.

Dive Deeper into Parabol Meetings

Explainer videos

Practical Guides

Interactive retro demo – No signup needed

Try a live demo of our Online Retrospective Meeting. No credit card, no signup—just click and run a structured retrospective with our robot friends!

Team Health demo – see five checks of history

Try Team Health on a sample team with five checks of history: category scores, the change since the last check and the five-check trend. No sign-up needed.

Here’s why 700,000+ people have already signed up

Now our retros have more structure, are easier to follow, and involve less work

“Parabol has made our retrospectives so much smoother. Now our retros have more structure, are easier to follow, and involve less work.”

Jean Snow

Jean Snow

Senior Manager, Ubisoft

Parabol is the most comprehensive, yet simple tool I have found

“The icebreakers and various retro templates help foster new conversations, and keep our meetings fun and engaging. Parabol is the most comprehensive, yet simple tool I have found”

Daniela Williams

Daniela Williams

Engineering Manager, Trimble