Course Description                                                                                                        

Agile Team Facilitation

Duration                                                                                                                    

2 sessions per 3h, live online session

This is a highly interactive and deeply experiential live online program that focuses on the mindset, roles and responsibilities of an agile team facilitator. This course is taught using techniques from “Training from the Back of the Room” , “Liberating structures”  and team-oriented games. The activities and feedback sessions will help you acquire essential agile team facilitation skills such as maintaining neutrality, different facilitation techniques, active listening, powerful questioning and facilitation guide writing. We will especially focus on facilitating agile framework meetings run with practical exercises.

Audience

This course is intended for leaders, scrum masters, agile coaches, team leaders, project managers, and others interested in improving their facilitation skills.

Course objectives

  • Understanding the role and mindset of an agile facilitator
  • Understanding the principles and tools of facilitation
  • Know how to prepare and facilitate Agile meetings and workshops
  • Learn how to prepare for conflict resolution, mediation or complicated meetings
  • A solution-oriented approach to Team Facilitation
  • Develop knowledge related to Agile principles and methods

Detailed course outline

FACILITATOR ROLE AND PROCESS DESIGN

  • Definition of Facilitation
  • Definition of Agile Team Facilitation
  • The Facilitation Mindset
  • Create a Collaborative Space
  • Defining the Purpose and Outcomes
  • Design the Flow

CONDUCTING A FACILITATED SESSION

  • Maintaining Neutrality
  • Anti-patterns and how to avoid them
  • Audience engagement
  • Facilitation techniques and best practices
  • Facilitation styles given team maturity – Tuckman model
  • Team Decision-Making Authority

FACILITATING AGILE MEETINGS

  • Facilitating the Daily
  • Facilitating The retrospective meeting
  • Facilitating Sprint Review
  • Facilitating Backlog Refinement
  • Facilitating Sprint Planning