Ask HN: web tool to organize sprint retro meetings?
In 2011 the dev team I was on went to Pivotal Labs for a few months to bootstrap a rebuild of our company's site, and learn their style of "extreme programming". We used a tool to organize our weekly retrospective meetings which I felt was remarkably useful and easy, but it's since disappeared and I haven't found a web-based replacement.
The site was actionitems.us, it was bare-bones and did just one thing and felt easy to use and understand. In a nutshell:
* users are collected into teams
* team has an upcoming meeting
* team members can submit thoughts/topics for upcoming meeting
* members can rank topics in order of what they'd like to discuss
* members can comment on existing topics
* when meeting starts, ordered topic list is the meeting's agenda
I felt that it was a great tool for our team. It was fast enough to use that any thoughts on the current dev cycle (code, ops, design, administrative, office-related...) could be quickly recorded, and then it got out of the way. No one had to add anything or rank anything or comment, so if you didn't care it didn't intrude.
I haven't found anything like it; does anyone know of a similar tool? Might be a fun open-source project to start if not.