Parabol

Parabol is an open-source agile meeting platform spanning retrospectives, sprint poker, async standups, team check-ins and recurring team health checks, with deep backlog sync to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear, recurring meeting series, Zoom and Google Meet transcript capture, a scoped GraphQL API, and a built-in knowledge base (Pages) that auto-publishes every meeting summary and runs AI queries across past retros.

Parabol se presenta como la plataforma ágil de código abierto para reuniones: retrospectivas, «sprint poker», reuniones diarias y sesiones de seguimiento, todo en un mismo lugar; está disponible bajo licencia AGPL-3.0 en GitHub y ofrece una opción de instalación local para aquellas empresas que no puedan enviar los datos de las retrospectivas a la nube de terceros.

«Parabol aporta estructura a las reuniones y convierte los resultados en conocimientos que todo su equipo puede consultar, compartir y aprovechar».

La página de inicio ahora se centra en el conocimiento, no en las formalidades: «Pages», la wiki integrada que publica automáticamente un resumen tras cada reunión, se posiciona como la alternativa a Confluence, y en 2026 se añadió una función de exportación con un solo clic a Confluence Cloud. Una línea independiente para el sector público ofrece un contenedor Iron Bank reforzado hasta el nivel IL5. El enfoque sigue siendo técnico: repositorio público, una versión casi cada semana, un esquema GraphQL publicado y sin artificios comerciales.

Parabol is still the most complete open-source retro stack you can buy, and it ships relentlessly — roughly forty releases since May. This pass, the interesting movement is at the two ends. On facilitation: automatic facilitator rotation, a Task Review phase on by default, Inspiration Items that pull Jira issues and prior standups into the reflect phase, and Zoom/Google Meet transcripts in the discussion drawer. On the platform side, the GraphQL API is now properly public — published SDL, a hosted GraphiQL, and scoped personal access tokens — which is more than most vendors here offer.

The bigger change is Team Health, rebuilt from the old emoji mood poll into a standalone recurring meeting with 10 built-in question packs — Project Aristotle, Edmondson, Lencioni, Hackman, Gallup Q12, Spotify, Atlassian, Project Oxygen, SCARF and a mixed set — plus custom questions. As of 21 Sep 2026 it is on production behind a feature flag for internal testing, with real teams due the following week, so ask where it is in the rollout before you buy on it. Know the shape: every pack is mapped onto the same 5 Aristotle categories, each cycle asks 5 Likert questions (one per category, rotating), results show a streak rather than a trend line, there is no cross-team rollup or export, and the packs are English only. Anonymous comments are paraphrased by an LLM at reveal and dropped if AI is switched off. It is on Team and Enterprise, not the free Starter plan, despite what the marketing page implies.

Elsewhere: still no whiteboard, presentation or screen-share mode, and "webhooks" remain Mattermost/MS Teams notification URLs. Confluence export is also flag-gated. Best fit: distributed teams living in Jira or Azure DevOps, and regulated orgs that need on-prem.