Six tabs for one team

2026-10-22 · The Scrums team

A retro tool, a poker tool, a standup bot, a docs tool, a chat app and a video app is a lot of logins for one team. With next year's budgets being set this quarter, it's worth counting yours.

For many companies, the fourth quarter is budget season: next year's plans, next year's headcount, and next year's software renewals. It's a good time to count how many tools one team uses to do its routine work.

A typical count looks something like this: a whiteboard or retro tool for retrospectives, a separate site for planning poker, a bot or a form for standups, a wiki for notes, a chat app, and a video-call app. Six products, six logins, six sets of permissions, and six places where a decision might have been written down.

What it costs beyond the subscriptions

Switching. Every tool is a new tab, a new sign-in and a new place to look.
Scattered decisions. The retro produced an action item, the standup mentioned it, the chat thread discussed it, and the doc was never updated. Which one is right?
Onboarding. Each new teammate needs an account in each tool, and leaving means removing them from each one.
Data in many places. Each tool is one more company holding your team's conversations.

One place for the team's routines

Scrums puts a team's routines in one place:

Meetings: retros, sprint poker, written standups and health checks.
Writing: pages edited together live, database tables, and screen recordings, with every meeting's summary saved as a page.
Talking: chat with channels, threads and direct messages, and voice and video calls with screen sharing and breakout rooms.
Planning: sessions on the team's calendar, with invitations that land in Outlook, Gmail or Apple Mail.
Finding: one search, Ctrl+K or ⌘K, across all of it.

Because it's one product, the parts connect. A retro's action items show up in each owner's My action items. Its summary becomes a page. A call starts from the meeting it's about, and anything said in a channel turns up in the same search as the page it refers to.

It won't replace your issue tracker, and it doesn't try to. But it can replace several of those tabs, and it's free: every feature, for your whole team, with no trial clock.