• Virtual Delivery of this Course is Available
This ICAgile-accredited course focuses primarily on the mindset and role of a team facilitator. We provide group facilitation tools and techniques to help you effectively design meetings and workshops that engage the entire audience and drive toward agreed-upon outcomes. If you have a passion for servant leadership — whether as Scrum Master, Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner or Business Analyst — our curriculum equips you with practical experience to foster collaboration and enable self-organized teams.
Learning Topics - 21hrs
Session 1
BASICS TOOLS OF A FACILITATOR
» Understand Facilitator Mindset and stance
» Understand roles and differences
» Team charter — facilitator’s role
» Benefits of brainwriting and brainstorming
» Gaining consensus
» Parking lot
» Working operating agreements
Session 2
EFFECTIVE MEETINGS
» Agendas & logistics
» Room layout
» Remote and virtual teams
» Collaboration tools
» Logistics and preparation
» Avoid common pitfalls
» Facilitate an initial design meeting
Session 3
TOOLS FOR FACILITATING AGILE TEAMS
» Introduction to facilitation techniques
» Discuss do’s for a retrospective
» Practice retro- role play
» Summarize the key topics for the day
Session 4
FACILITATION CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
» Practicing liberating structures
» WIIFM (What’s in it for me)
» When and how to facilitate release planning
» Planning for a release planning session
» Creating a Definition of Ready for user stories
» Creating a Definition of Done for user stories
» Backlog refinement
» Iteration planning
» Execution stand-up
» Sprint review
» Retrospective
Session 5
TEAM HEALTH
» Assess maturity level of team
» Interpersonal facilitation
» Management/leadership
» Dysfunctions of a team
Session 6
BUILDING A PLANNING MEETING
» Identifying and managing group think
» Intervention steps
» Think hats to break group think
» Developing an agenda
» Facilitate a session
» World café
What People Are Saying About Fundamentals of Facilitation
The pace was brisk and not boring. It does require a high level of engagement to get the most out of this class.
The class was informative, interactive and we received a lot of information in a format that made it easy to retain.
It was very well done and packed with useful information, some of which I am using in my current role.