About Sideways6

Sideways 6 exists to build better businesses through employee ideas.

STEP 1 - AUTOMATE

Manage everything automatically

Engaging everyone and getting new ideas is great. Spending days doing it? Not so much.

Manage ideas, send personalised communications and run expert reviews on autopilot.

STEP 2 - IMPROVE

Bring the best ideas to life

Get the very best ideas to solve your biggest challenges. Implement them to improve.

Find your highest impact ideas 4x faster and make employees owners of change.

About Planview IdeaPlace (formerly Planview Spigit)

Great ideas start on Spigit. Join the 500+ enterprise companies that are bringing the power of collective intelligence to every business challenge.

Challenge Templates

• Broadcast challenges & events, capture ideas, discover opportunities, and solve problems using preconfigured or custom templates to easily and quickly explore specific innovation use cases.

Guides & Tutorials

• Solicit advice and discover best practices through in-app chat with customer care, help center content, embedded videos & articles, and guided feature walkthroughs.

Mobile-Enabled Innovation

• Capture inspiration in real time: Access challenges, post ideas, vote, comment, collaborate, or perform other user activities during your commute or on the go.

External Innovation

• Extend engagement to key external crowds with easy access to the system through social media credentials.

Connect End-to-End

• Export data via API to popular delivery mechanisms, or connect seamlessly to Planview delivery apps to see the entire value chain, from idea entry to delivery.

ProjectPlace Integration

• Connect to Planview ProjectPlace to deliver innovation from idea to impact.

TeamTap

• Democratize the ideation process by enabling users to create and manage challenges their own way—without the need for an admin, templates, or an admin panel.

Social Activity Trends

• Leverage popular features of social media to build community and increase engagement in ways that help cultivate ideas, rather than just collect them.

Crowd Predictions Incorporate diversity of thought and opinion to help prioritize ideas by allowing users to estimate revenue, cost and delivery time required for an idea.

Guided User Experience

• Personalize guidance ensuring that each user is only presented with fresh content—all made available in a variety of languages.

User Skill Interests

• Enable users to add skills and interests to their profiles and use that data to build effective teams and to push challenges to specific skillsets.

Idea Capture Forms

• Capture ideas with build-your-own-idea forms that start with a standard format and include a wide variety of configurable options for customization.

Idea Evaluation & Reviews

• Leverage automation to push prioritized ideas to appropriate subject matter experts who compare and evaluate them to narrow the field and drive workflow.

Idea Workflow Automation

• Leverage automation to manage idea workflows from crowd selection to subject matter experts, and use scoring methods to prioritize them, removing the need to review every idea.

Smart Idea Consolidation

• Use natural language processing to identify and consolidate comparable ideas to keep the crowd focused on the strongest concepts—all without admin interaction.

Trends & Sentiment

• Quickly explore millions of lines of text and sentiment using advanced natural language processing and analysis capabilities. Identify key trends and themes to seize opportunities and deliver value to your customers using a data-driven innovation process.

Executive Reporting

• Maximize business intelligence with embedded Microsoft Power BI, standard & customized dashboards, reporting and built-in ML powered analytics to illustrate and evaluate all elements of your programs.

Flexible Configuration

• Get started fast with preconfigured templates for conformity, or customize each challenge through an admin panel equipped with embedded guides for assistance.

Idea Voting & Commenting

• Gather crowd feedback through public or private comments by collecting social media style “likes,” or by allowing users to rate ideas on a star-based system.

Engagement Gamification

• Leverage embedded gamification elements like badges and points to drive engagement, and a reputation tool to evaluate each user’s participation.

About Sprint Boards

Sprint Boards is a modern SaaS platform for Agile developers, providing distributed teams with the tools they need to coordinate, discuss and collaborate together.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• We've carefully considered the user experience to maximise your efficiency. We've created handy keyboard shortcuts for common tasks like adding, editing and saving cards.

Lock and Delete Boards

• When you've finished your retro, you can lock the board to prevent your team from making further changes. Or you can just delete the board entirely.

Merge Duplicates

• Occasionally, several members of your team may add separate cards referring to the same issue. When this happens, simply drag the duplicate over the original to merge them together.

Board History

• View a list of all your previous retrospectives and manage your boards in one place. You can also restore deleted boards or permanently remove them directly from the board history page.

Share on Slack

• When you're ready to begin your retro, inviting your team couldn't be simpler. Use the new Slack option from the Share menu on your board and we'll send a link to your team.

Export to Trello & Jira

• After you've finished your retro, you can export your most important cards – like your Action Items – to a board on Trello, or a project on Jira, to keep track of the agreed actions for the next sprint.

Card Authorship

• Require participants to login or create an account and we'll show the author of each card as they're posted. We can even prevent participants from deleting cards they didn't publish.

Team Management

• Allow your team to review past retros with ease with the new team-wide Board History view. You can even assign team members as administrators so they can create and manage your boards.

Board Encryption

• Benefit from secure and automatic encryption with no passwords to memorise. We encrypt all user boards using the AES-256-CBC cipher. Perfect for teams that need to discuss confidential work.

Card Masking

• Prevent team members from influencing each other by masking each others' cards until the end of the retrospective. With this option enabled, you'll only see the content of your own cards.

About TeamRetro

TeamRetro is an enterprise-ready online retrospective tool for remote teams.

Fully customizable

• Change topics, process flow and anonymity for your retros, radars and health checks to fit what your team needs. Use light or dark mode.

Automatic idea grouping

• Use our auto-suggest feature to save you time when grouping similar ideas. Or just drag and drop to create your own groups.

Deep discussion

• Discuss and capture comments and actions. Use presentation mode to keep conversations focused. Create team agreements and buy in.

Reporting and graphs

• Dashboards and reports track action, meeting cadence, and team sentiment over time with reports you can download.

Team action list

• Propose and add actions. Assign owners and dates and integrate into your existing workflow tools. Keep track over time.

Cross device

• Use TeamRetro on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop with any modern web browser.

Facilitate with ease

• From easy invites to time-boxed discussions, built-in presentation mode, independent voting, and integrated workflows.

Team agreements

• Collaboration is not just a checklist. Build culture by letting your team decide how they want to work together at meetings.

About TeleRetro

Agile retros that are smart, simple & fun.

Engaging retros your team will love

Gifs

• Never fail to get a laugh with Gifs

Emoji

• Capture how you feel with emoji

Music

• Play music right from your retro

Voting

• Let your team tell you what matters

Brainstorming

• Focus without any distractions

Icebreakers

• Make icebreakers with our AI bot

Timer

• Keep meetings on time with ease

Privacy

• Create public or invite only retros

Deliver improvement at scale

Secure by design

• Enterprise-grade security

High availability

• 99.9% uptime

GDPR compliant

• Data protection & Privacy

See trends and insights

Automatically surface important metrics, visualise trends, search your retro history, manage actions in one place.