The best online whiteboard for scrum

Sprint Planning and Backlog Grooming

Jotboard’s sticky notes and freeform canvas make it easy to turn sprint planning into a hands-on, visual exercise. Create columns with text boxes or shapes to represent your backlog, in-progress work, and completed items, then drag color-coded sticky notes between them as priorities shift. Each team member can add their own notes simultaneously, so estimation sessions and backlog refinement happen in real time without anyone waiting for a turn. Use a dedicated slide for each sprint to keep a clean record of what was planned, and flip back through previous slides to see how the team’s capacity and velocity have evolved over time.

Retrospectives That Surface Real Feedback

A good retrospective needs a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing openly. Set up a Jotboard slide with columns for what went well, what could improve, and action items, then let the team add sticky notes anonymously or collaboratively. The visual layout makes it easy to spot patterns: when a cluster of notes piles up in one area, the team can see at a glance where the biggest opportunities lie. Use the pen tool to draw connections between related items, group similar feedback together, or vote on priorities by adding dot markers. Once the retro is done, export the slide as a PDF to share with stakeholders or archive for future reference.

Daily Standups and Ongoing Visibility

For daily standups, Jotboard provides a shared board that the team can update asynchronously or review together in a live session. Each team member can move their sticky notes to reflect current status, flag blockers with a different color, or jot down quick updates with text boxes. The slide-based structure lets you maintain a standup slide alongside your sprint board and retro slides, keeping all ceremony artifacts in a single, organized board. The free plan supports up to five collaborators, which suits smaller scrum teams, while the paid plan at four dollars a month removes the collaborator limit for larger teams.

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