
Ask HN: What tools/apps do you use in your team to manage feedback? - sidcool
The cycle of continuous Feedback is oft broken in the chaos of a high speed tech organisation.  What are your goto effective tools for actionable and trackable feedback within team members?<p>What tools provide one to one and team level feedback isolation?  What tips and tricks help you?
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gilbert77
We use a tool called BigTeam([https://bigteam.co/](https://bigteam.co/)), it's
a newly built tool to address the broken feedback processes within any
organization. What's great about it is whether you're a researcher, brand
manager, creative, almost anyone in your team can use it, it's quite robust
and holistic. It solves the problems of Who exactly to ask but also a survey
builder helps aid the type of questions to ask for actionable feedback too.

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dkasper
Obviously only for positive feedback, but we have a command /praise in Slack
at Reddit. This let's you acknowledge someone quickly for a good job, and the
results are collected into a channel and into Small Improvements, which is the
heavier performance review system we use. It actually gets used quite a bit!

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sdrothrock
I can see that having a small command would make it easier to give positive
feedback (which is important, since negative feedback has a much heavier
emotional weight), but have you noticed any devaluing of positive feedback due
to how easy or common it is to give it?

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jasonmotylinski
We use OfficeVibe ([http://www.officevibe.com](http://www.officevibe.com))
which allows employees to provide anonymous feedback (good and bad) and helps
us track our ongoing progress. It's quite helpful.

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colinbartlett
I have used 7Geese[1] in the past. A little overwhelming as a tool but there
are some nuggets of usefulness there.

15Five[2] (what's with these names?) is another one I have used and is a
little more approachable.

1\. [https://7geese.com/](https://7geese.com/)

2\. [https://www.15five.com/](https://www.15five.com/)

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telecuda
15Five is excellent. 15 minutes each week for a team member to submit feedback
/ 5 minutes for a manager to review. I find people bring up concerns in their
15fives that I can address quickly before they become larger problems.

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michaelsobota
We use TinyPulse to keep team / upward feedback regular (weekly basis). I've
also found that co-locating as much as possible is very effective to build a
culture of natural flowing 1-1 feedback... strong relationships have always
been better than any app I've used.

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tbfrench
I work at [https://www.cultureamp.com](https://www.cultureamp.com) so I'm
biased. Of course, we use the product ourselves. I think it's great.

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abarrettwilsdon
We use CareerLark[1] in our office. It's nice and lightweight (plus easy to
onboard people on to).

1\. [http://www.careerlark.com/](http://www.careerlark.com/)

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Mandatum
The emoji-scale 1-5, how exactly do you define that scale? Do you give
feedback on a per-person basis or company wide? Say I have a team of 3
engineers, all with "Senior" title however I expect one to naturally
outperform the other two.

This quarter s/he's slacked a bit, maybe s/he's not as driven or it's
something personal - but s/he's still performing just as well as the other two
engineers who've both performed exceptionally well and I'm giving them both a
5.

Do I give the engineer I expected to do better a 5? Or a 4? I mean I expected
them to do better but I'm still really happy with their work.

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patothon
I use www.oneone.io.

Both to manage my one on ones and to gather feedback from the team.

