Facilitation for Agile Teams Training

The training programme includes knowledge and practice of facilitation techniques that may be particularly useful for agile teams and their leaders. The aim of the training is for participants to acquire knowledge and experience of selected facilitation processes and techniques.

The training focuses on several levels at which facilitation can be used: organisational level, product level and development team level. Training can be conducted both in a training room and with the use of remote collaboration platforms

Target group

• Agile Project Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Agile team leaders
• Agile Coaches
• IT Directors
• Staff of the Project Management Office

Benefits

• Acquiring and practicing a set of facilitation methods and techniques especially useful for agile teams
• Efficient and engaging planning of agile transformations, defining the product portfolio and requirements, and planning the work of the team
• Effective use of time devoted to team meetings and an increase of their effectiveness
• The possibility of using facilitation techniques during training and team coaching
• Introduction to the organisation of efficient methods of consensus building and joint decision-making, structured reflection

 Training agenda

 Opening and introduction

• Training scope
• Work plan
• Training style
• Technicalities

Demonstration workshop

• Kurt Lewins’s Force field analysis: Forces pushing and inhibiting an agile transformation

Ingredients of facilitation

• The essence of facilitation
• The attitude of the facilitator
• Facilitated process
• Techniques
• Tools
• Facilitative questions
• Meeting energy and temperature
• Divergent and convergent thinking

Facilitation in the Agile Coaching Institute model

• Facilitator
• Coach
• Teacher
• Mentor

Tuckan’s team development model and facilitation styles

• Bruce Tuckman’s team development process
• Facilitation styles, team development and creative process

Contracting and preparation of workshops

• Agile contracting: building team rules and meeting rules
• Preparation of the workshop and meeting agenda

Facilitation at the organizational level

• Planning an agile transformation based on force field analysis

Facilitation of product definition

• Requirements gathering and prioritisation
• Workload estimation
• Road map

Facilitation of team meetings

• Time-box / sprint planning
• Retrospective

Summary and closure

• Training takeaways
• Energies and feelings
• Practical applications

Workshop duration, languages and logistics

• 3 days, or according to client needs
• Open training or inhouse
• In English or in French
• Onsite or online

Cost

• 1250 EUR / person for a three-day training
  • In Belgium add VAT of 21%: 262,50