Agile Team Facilitation (ICP – ATF)

Whether it's a retro with a Scrum team or a Value Stream Budgeting session with senior management: Agile coaches need to facilitate team sessions. Facilitating these sessions involves guiding delicate decision making, balancing group dynamics with individual inspiration, managing time and using appropriate tools.

This two-day training will hand you all the tools to lift any group event to an exceptional level. You will learn to:

• Design a powerful facilitation guide using proven practices and templates​

• Understand the importance of facilitation and a facilitation mindset in an Agile context​

• Acquire a suite of methods and instrumentals to enhance session delivery​

• Learn how to facilitate for full participation through collaborative conversations/meetings​

• Facilitate retrospectives and stand-ups like a boss​

• Design and practice facilitating sessions for different levels of team maturity

Day 1

Part I: Facilitation in the Agile context

• The Agile Coach Learning Path

• Role and competencies of agile coaching

• The Five Guiding Rules of Facilitation

• Emotional Intelligence

• Growth mindset

• Set and hold the agenda

• Maintaining Neutrality

• Wisdom of the crowd

• Decision making

• Dealing with Conflict

Day 2

Part I: Hosting Awesome Sessions

• Event Flows

• Formats & Sizes

• Logistics, Media & Tooling

• Design Your Next Event

• Liberating Structures and Other Formats

Part II: DIY - Facilitating Agile Events (like a boss)

• Design of a facilitation session

• Peer coaching to achieve the facilitation goals

• Skillfully Facilitate

The ATF-ICP course is ideal for ambitious and experienced Agile professionals who want to step up their game and become highly skilled, independent Agile coaches. We do recommend that you in some way have at least one year experience with the Agile principles.

To make the most of this training, we recommend you have at least one year experience with the Agile principles or working in the role of Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach. In preparation for the course we ask you to refresh your Scrum knowledge and read an article about the 5 principles of team facilitation.

Unsure how to start your Agile Coach journey? We have a comprehensive 3-course track to help you become an accredited Agile Coach in no time at all. By taking part in these courses in the following order, you'll be able to fully immerse yourself into the Agile Coach role and begin an exciting new chapter in your career:

Interested in becoming an Agile Coach? You can easily become accredited by following our selection of ICAgile trainings in the following order:

1. Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
2. Agile Coaching Professional (ICP-ACC)
3. Agile Enterprise Coach (ICP-ENT)