Agile Team Facilitation

What is the course like?

Are you a scrum master or agile coach looking to improve your facilitation skills?

Much of the work on agile projects happens in group sessions: team members collaborate to identify and prioritise stories, plan work to be done, elaborate stories, identify risks and issues, communicate progress in stand-ups and other shared activities. Working in collaborative self-organising teams can be challenging and it is important that all team members understand the group dynamics involved and how to effectively facilitate these sessions.

That’s where our Agile Team Facilitation program comes in. Learn how collaborative workshops can be planned, organised and run; and how each team member can contribute to achieving maximum effectiveness – while identifying potential pitfalls and how to avoid and address them. This program will also help you learn about your role in building capability across the wider team.

You’ll gain

ICAgile accredited course: The ICAgile Certified Professional, Agile Team Facilitation is granted on the successful completion of this course. This certification is part of the ICAgile Coaching Track along with our Agile Fundamentals and Agile Coaching courses. We offer the complete ICAgile Coaching Track for those looking to become an ICAgile Certified Expert in Coaching (ICE-AC).

This course will contribute 14 PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (7 leadership hours and 7 technical hours).

You’ll learn

During this course you will learn about:

Techniques to facilitate effective workshops and Agile ceremonies
The importance of empowerment and collaboration
Facilitating collaborative conversations
Using health checks to explore team effectiveness, building on team strengths and tackling impediments

Great for

Scrum Masters who want to understand the fundamentals of agile team facilitation
Agile Coaches, Product Owners and leader who are looking to build their facilitation skills
Anyone interested in developing their skills and knowledge to effectively facilitate the values, principles, practices and techniques in an Agile team.

You’ll need

To get the most out of this course, you will need to have completed formal agile training such as our Agile Fundamentals course and have at least 12 months’ experience working in an agile team.