Parabol vs. Sherpany

Parabol is suitable for working configurations of all kinds, in-person, fully remote, or a hybrid work setup, employees can benefit from the software regardless. The retrospectives are effective when applied to an actual project or when used as a mock retrospective. The icebreaker question is also very useful as it helps establish the mood moving forward.

Incentivized

Sherpany helps us to retrieve information from previous meetings quickly. Participants for conferences can be contacted and their records can be viewed every time, wherever, and whether they are provided by the data they collect.

Incentivized

• Virtual Retrospectives
• Teamwork
• Easy to Use

Incentivized

• Documents can be provided promptly.
• You can access it from everywhere (online platform).
• Approval agenda items can already be voted in advance.

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

• Changes with new versions should be well communicated in advance and consider in more detail the impact on existing boardrooms
• Too expensive
• Generally, more possibilities for customizing e.g. it should be possible to define security levels for access individually (why do I have to retype my email every time I synchronize?) or it should be up to the users whether and how they want to use labels (why can I only have one label per document?)

They're good when needed. Sherpany offers a much more efficient way of working

Not as great as Peoplbox, although we used Parabol only for scheduling and managing meetings and not for managing Goals and agile sprints much. Our usage of Parabol was very limited and we used it only for a very limited timeframe. Have been happy with what we explored on Parabol so far.

Much easier to annotate documents, better User Interface which makes it very easy to access material discussed in earlier Meetings; also very easy to navigate between different topics on the agenda.

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

• The only negative thing I can see is that members can be victims of technostress and sometimes forget their password, how to find a document in a session. My role is to help them, reassure them and find a solution with them
• The positive is that all our members are often members of several committees at once and instead of receiving folders with a ton of documents, which are often cumbersome and heavy, everything is on the IPads. They can also annotate their documents as they want.