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SprintBee is a workspace for two recurring team ceremonies: estimating a backlog together, and reflecting on a sprint afterwards. You can run either one on its own, and most teams end up running both.

Two ceremonies, one Workspace#

A Workspace is the durable thing your team keeps. It holds a Planning Room and a Retro Room, along with the settings, integrations and history they share. You do not recreate a room for each meeting — the same two rooms are reused sprint after sprint, and each meeting becomes a session inside them.

Everything else follows from that. Connections to Jira or Linear are configured once on the Workspace and inherited by its rooms. Defaults for decks, voting rules and retro templates are set on the Workspace, and a moderator or facilitator can still change them during a session.

Planning Poker#

In the Planning Room, the team estimates work items. Someone puts an item up, everyone privately picks a card, and the moderator reveals all the votes at once. The team talks through the spread, agrees a number, and the moderator accepts it — which moves the item into history and pulls up the next one.

The same loop can run asynchronously, with a voting window people fill in over a day or two instead of a call.

Sprint Retros#

In the Retro Room, the team works through a retrospective in stages: Reflect to write down what happened, Organize to group related reflections into topics, Prioritize to vote on which ones matter, Discuss to talk them through, and Commit to agree on improvement actions before closing the session. A facilitator drives the stages; everyone else follows along.

Actions committed in one retro carry forward, so the next one starts by asking whether they actually happened.

Where to start#

If you want to see it before signing up, open the planning demo at /room/demo or the retro demo at /retro/demo — no account, no team, nothing to set up.

If you are running a session soon, read Run your first estimation session or Run your first retrospective. Both walk the whole ceremony end to end, and both begin by signing in — an emailed one-time code rather than a password.

Once the room exists, Set up a room before the meeting covers the deck and the voting rules, Workspaces and organizations explains which settings live at which level, and Control who can join a room covers room codes, passwords and required sign-in.