Slack Channel to Affinity Map
This Slack channel to affinity map automation turns a week of retro comments into something the team can discuss. Every Friday at 3pm, MockFlow reads that week's messages in your team's retro channel.
What it does.
From Slack, every Friday at 3pm, read messages in a channel, make an affinity map of the retro channel.
- Runs
- Every Friday at 3pm
- Reads
- Slack
- Makes
- Whiteboard: Retro affinity map
Why teams use it.
It makes an affinity map with each point raised as a sticky note, clustered by theme with a heading per cluster.
Turn it on.
Use this template opens the Automations page in MockFlow with every part already filled in.
Open the Slack Channel to Affinity Map template
Select Use this template and it opens in MockFlow Automations.
Connect Slack
Sign in with your own Slack account and pick the retro channel.
Choose the space
Pick where each week's affinity map is made.
Turn it on
Run now maps this week's messages. Turn it on for a new map every Friday.
Who uses it.
A team collecting retro points all week
Points dropped in the channel are grouped before the Friday retro.
A manager listening for themes
Recurring frustrations and wins show up as clusters.
A distributed team
People in any time zone add to the channel, and the map brings it together.





