Retrospectives for Distributed Teams

At Fintory, half of our team works in agile, distributed teams. I personally always had the pleasure to be in the same room with my project teams, until one day, I wasn't – and the quality of the discussions during Retrospective meetings decreased drastically.

We believe strongly in working agile, but we understand that not all teams can manage to be in the same room at all times. So we decided to build a nifty little tool for facilitating and participating in online retrospectives – without sacrificing on the design aspects, of course 😉

What are your experiences from distributed team retrospectives? What pains do you face? I'd love to find out.