We’ve heard you, dark mode wasn’t quite working before and we’ve now gone and fixed it!
This was a frustrating one. We were frustrated by it too! We also use Lean Coffee Table for our own Retrospectives and nothing is more frustrating than your Retro topics ordered by vote suddenly not being ordered. This has now been fixed, but if you find any more issues, please let us know.
Retrospectives and Actions Boards are now out of beta and have been officially launched!
You can now run retros and store actions from both Lean Coffee Table and Retrospectives in one place. Turn Retrospective output into Action Outcomes and see your team improve!
Retrospectives and Action Boards are included at no extra charge as part of our new pricing structure. Log into your Lean Coffee Table account and you should see an option to get Retrospectives and Action Boards.
A new retro comes with three generic columns. However you don’t need to keep these columns you can rename them and add new ones or delete them if you wish.
A Retro has 4 stages these are Create Topics, Vote on Topics, Discuss Topics and Review. We’ll be going into more details on these below.
After you have setup the columns you want, this is the first stage of your Retro. Get your team to come up with topics and populate them under the columns they fit under best. If you have similar topics you can merge these together. Want to keep your team on their toes? Set a timer for how long they have to create topics.
Now that you have created and merged similiar topics together. Its now time to vote on the topics you wish to discuss. Once again you can set a timer to keep your retro on scheduel.
Hitting the Discuss Topics tab at the top of your screen will automatically sort your topics by vote. Click on the Discuss button on the topic you wish to discuss and a dialogue box will appear for everyone to focus on that particular topic.
Set a timer to keep your team on track. Everyone can add Actions, Learnings and comments to the currently being discussed topic.
Once you have finished discussing your topics you can click on the Review tab. This will list all of the actions and learnings that have been collected during your retrospective.
Learnings and Actions can be exported as a CSV file. Actions can also be exported to our new Action Boards by simply selecting them and hitting the Export Actions button. If you have already linked an Action to an Action Board this link will appear on the action.
You can select an existing Action Board or you can create a new one.
Action Boards are just as flexible as Retrospective Boards. You can add and remove columns. Manually add actions or export actions to them from a Lean Coffee Table Board or a Retrospective board. Action Boards also enable you to assign actions and will provide a link back to the Retrospective or Lean Coffee Table board they were orginally created on.
We are thrilled to introduce the new Retrospective and Action boards. Now you can run retros and store actions from both Lean Coffee Table and Retrospectives in one place. Turn Retrospective output into Action Outcomes and see your team improve!
If you would like to join the Retro & Action Board beta please get in touch
A new retro comes with three generic columns. However you don’t need to keep these columns you can rename them and add new ones or delete them if you wish.
A Retro has 4 stages these are Create Topics, Vote on Topics, Discuss Topics and Review. We’ll be going into more details on these below.
After you have setup the columns you want, this is the first stage of your Retro. Get your team to come up with topics and populate them under the columns they fit under best. If you have similar topics you can merge these together. Want to keep your team on their toes? Set a timer for how long they have to create topics.
Now that you have created and merged similiar topics together. Its now time to vote on the topics you wish to discuss. Once again you can set a timer to keep your retro on scheduel.
Hitting the Discuss Topics tab at the top of your screen will automatically sort your topics by vote. Click on the Discuss button on the topic you wish to discuss and a dialogue box will appear for everyone to focus on that particular topic.
Set a timer to keep your team on track. Everyone can add Actions, Learnings and comments to the currently being discussed topic.
Once you have finished discussing your topics you can click on the Review tab. This will list all of the actions and learnings that have been collected during your retrospective.
Learnings and Actions can be exported as a CSV file. Actions can also be exported to our new Action Boards by simply selecting them and hitting the Export Actions button. If you have already linked an Action to an Action Board this link will appear on the action.
You can select an existing Action Board or you can create a new one.
Action Boards are just as flexible as Retrospective Boards. You can add and remove columns. Manually add actions or export actions to them from a Lean Coffee Table Board or a Retrospective board. Action Boards also enable you to assign actions and will provide a link back to the Retrospective or Lean Coffee Table board they were orginally created on.
What if I am on holiday and I need my colleague to facilitate my meeting?
By popular request, we have added the ability to make an attendee into a facilitator to allow them to facilitate or co-facilitate a meeting.
This feature is for “Invite Only” boards.
After setting the board visibility to the above setting, you can change any invited attendee to a facilitator by clicking on the attendee.
Then click “Make Facilitator”
Note that the user will only be a facilitator in the current meeting.
We are excited to announce the release of our revamped Zoom integration! The new design is not only more visually appealing but also much easier to navigate. With just a few clicks, you can start your meeting and collaborate with others in real-time. We believe this update will greatly enhance your experience on our platform and make it even easier for you to connect with others.
When using our Zoom integration, copy the Zoom link and click “Set Conference Link”
Lean Coffee Table now supports Anonymous Topics. It’s been a popular request to create an environment people feel comfortable and confident in contributing to Lean Coffee Table sessions on sensitives subjects.
When a Lean Coffee Table board is set to Permanently hide the author, any topics created on that board by an attendee will be anonymous. Behind the scenes we generate a random id for the user (also known as a GUID) which is only used on this board. Any topic the user creates then uses this id. When the facilitator ends the Lean Coffee Table session, we then delete any association with the attendees. This means after the session is ended, attendees will then no longer be able to edit topics they had previously created.
Only topic authors are hidden. Other items such as Actions, Learnings and Comments recorded during the session, will still reveal the user’s chosen name.
Please note:
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