Agile Team Facilitation (ICP – ATF)

A 16-hour ICAgile accredited course in Agile Team Facilitation

Whether you’re conducting a retro with a single Scrum team or engaging in a Value Stream Budgeting session with senior management: facilitating team sessions is essential for every Agile Coach. Facilitating delicate decision making, guiding the way towards collective action means playing simultaneous chess on several boards. Maintaining the flow of divergence and convergence in session; balancing group energy levels and dynamics versus individual sparks of inspiration; time management and tooling. ​

The 16 hour, ICAgile accredited course in Agile Team Facilitation will give you the awareness and the toolkit to lift any group event to the level of a kick-ass experience.​

Learning goals

• 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 ​

Certification

We are an authorized partner of ICAgile

The ICP-ATF certification is one of two knowledge-based certifications on the Agile Coaching Track. It focuses primarily on the mindset and role of an agile team facilitator, while also providing group facilitation tools and techniques for effectively designing meetings and workshops that both engage the entire audience and drive towards agreed-upon outcomes. Through obtaining this certification, course participants will develop an appreciation for the art of facilitation as key to fostering collaboration and enabling self-organizing teams. In addition, participants will build their facilitator toolkits and gain experience facilitating specific agile practices most relevant to their organizational context.​

The Agile Team Facilitation Class paves the way for teams to achieve true empowerment, collaboration, and ownership of their actions and decisions. In this way, facilitation skills help the vision of agile-done-well come true. ​

Your ticket includes:

• Participant workbook
• Certification from IC Agile

Two-day training program

Day 1 - Lesson 1: Facilitation in the Agile context
From Command and Control to "We can Work it Out"

• The Agile Coach Learning Path
• The Five Guiding Rules of Facilitation
• Preparing Session Design

Day 1 - Lesson 2: The Facilitator Mindset
Who are You, Facilitator?

• Maintaining Neutrality
• Dealing with Conflict
• Awareness: From Unsafe Spaces to Safer Spaces
• Group Energy Levels

Day 2 - Lesson 3: Hosting awesome sessions
From chairperson to Super(wo)man

• Event Flows
• Formats and Sizes
• Logistics, Media and Tooling
• Design Your Next Event
• Liberating Structures and other formats

Day 2 - Lesson 4: Facilitating Agile events
Facilitate the events of your Agile framework like a boss

• Team Maturity
• Murphy's Law
• Skillfully Facilitate the Scrum Events

The ATF-ICP course is a two-day training program. Each course day starts at 9:00 and ends at 17:00 and includes a complimentary lunch and an afternoon break.

Who benefits from this certification?

This knowledge-based certification is intended for agile team leaders or aspiring team leaders with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice the art of facilitation in the context of team facilitation and coaching.

Relevant roles include ScrumMasters, Agile Project Managers, Agile Coaches, aspiring coaches, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and anyone with the desire to explore the power of facilitation.