The Smartest Way for Busy Team Leads to Improve Their Team’s Delivery

Interactive psychology-based retrospectives, 1:1 meetings, Health Checks and action tracking on autopilot: the Echometer tool is the shortcut to better delivery.

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"Really well received by our teams"

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"Brilliant tool!"

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"Worth its weight in gold for distributed teams"

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Agile teams at these organizations use Echometer

Measurable Effect. Tangible Change.

Team leaders & engineering managers increase team satisfaction and efficiency with Echometer – and do so measurably.

Better Leadership

+40%

Higher satisfaction with 1:1 meetings

Source: Case study with before and after comparison

Higher Team Efficacy

+32%

Higher "Return on Time Invested" of the retrospectives

Industry average: 6.4/10, with Echometer: 8.5/10

What You Will Love About Echometer

Retrospective tool meets One-on-One meeting software: develop employees and teams sustainably, measurably and holistically

Promote sustainable employee development through self-reflection

Develop teams that solve problems in a self-organized way

Prove your coaching success with clear metrics

Discover what you can do with Echometer

Echometer integrates everything you need to manage your teams:

Spark engagement and reflection

With Echometer's versatile templates, you can create creative formats for your retrospectives and 1-to-1 meetings in no time at all.

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Don't waste anybody's time

Use surveys in Echometer to gather asynchronous feedback before the retrospectives and One-on-One meetings.

Measure team satisfaction and other metrics

Echometer's integrated team health check automatically records the long-term development of your team.

New insights instead of silence

Echometer's smart recommendations already give you food for thought on your topics during team retrospectives and One-on-One meetings.

No follow-up is ever lost

Echometer's built-in measure tracking ensures that the effectiveness of each task is reflected, promoting continuous learning for the team.

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Direct access to our Retrospective Tool: Try out our carefully designed retro formats and open up new perspectives for your team!

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FAQ about Echometer

In Echometer there are two separate software solutions that are available within each workspace in Echometer:

  • 1:1 tool: Software for planning and conducting 1:1 meetings and tracking employee development
  • Retrospective tool: Software for planning and moderating retrospectives and tracking team development through team health checks

Both are independent software solutions, so they can be used separately from each other.

However, they work according to the same principles and aim to achieve the same added value: The continuous improvement of agile teams. In this respect, the simultaneous use of both software solutions is recommended.

Yes, Echometer also allows SSO or single sign-on in its paid plans. This applies to both the retro tool and the tool for 1:1 meetings.

No, you cannot host Echometer on your own servers.

Echometer is only available as cloud software via the following link: my.echometerapp.com

Echometer is based in Münster, Germany, and was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Münster.

Echometer is a software for managers of agile teams with which you can easily conduct retrospectives and 1:1 meetings.

In addition, managers can use the Team Health Checks in Echometer to visualize trends in team development (e.g. by measuring Spotify Health Checks or psychological safety). The findings from the team Health Checks can then be used in team retrospectives and evaluated across teams. Pulse checks can be used to automate regular team health surveys.

FAQ on data protection and security

Yes, you can assign administration rights to any number of users at both team level and workspace level. Please note the following:

  • Only workspace admins can take out and manage a Echometer subscription for a Echometer workspace.
  • Only workspace admins can create additional teams and name or remove additional workspace admins.
  • Team admins can appoint and remove additional team admins and team members for their team

No, Echometer does not have an on-premise version that customers can host themselves. Echometer is only available as a cloud solution.

Echometer uses the servers of the Open Telekom Cloud in Germany. The Open Telekom Cloud data centers are located in Magdeburg and Biere in Saxony-Anhalt.

These two locations form what is known as a twin-core data center, which is connected to each other by its own high-speed network that is separate from the Internet.

Yes, Echometer is GDPR-compliant and has a corresponding data processing agreement (also known as a "DPA" or "DPA" for short), which automatically becomes part of the contractual cooperation when a subscription is taken out:

Echometer Contract for commissioned data processing in accordance with GDPR

The roles and authorizations in Echometer are managed by the customer's workspace admins by assigning roles to employees directly in Echometer:

  • Normal employees only have access to teams, retrospectives and 1:1 series to which they have been invited.
  • Team administrators can create and moderate retrospectives in their teams, control the team settings and add or remove team members.
  • Workspace administrators can create and archive teams, assign team administrators, manage the workspace settings and add or remove members from the workspace.

Yes, both the software tool for 1-on-1 meetings and the tool for team retros from Echometer are secure and GDPR-compliant.

Data in Echometer is sent in encrypted form and also stored in encrypted form on servers in Germany.

Several European financial institutions have chosen to purchase Echometer over competitors due to Echometer's stringent data security measures.

Yes, Echometer also allows SSO or single sign-on in its paid plans. This applies to both the retro tool and the tool for 1:1 meetings.

Yes, Echometer's retro tool is technically secure and GDPR-compliant.

Several European financial institutions and insurance companies have chosen to purchase Echometer's retrospective tools over other alternatives due to strict regulatory requirements.

The data is stored and securely processed in Germany. The contract for commissioned data processing with details on the technical and organizational security measures of Echometer's processing can be viewed here: https://echometerapp.com/gdpr-and-security/

Echometer customer data is encrypted and stored on servers within the EU in compliance with the GDPR.

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