PSFS - Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ (EN)

Description

Help your team and organization better solve problems and conflicts through effective facilitation in the context of Scrum. Encourage participatory decision-making across the organization.

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ is an interactive course designed to help Scrum practitioners develop a facilitator’s mindset, proficiency in facilitation skills, and learn when and how to select effective techniques for various circumstances. Strong facilitation skills enable better problem-solving, more effective Scrum events and greater team alignment, all leading to better outcomes.

We bring you this course in collaboration with ScrumDōjō.

Goals

• Develop facilitation skills and a facilitator’s mindset
• Learn the facilitation principles that experienced facilitators fall back on when interactions are difficult
• Understand the roles that facilitation principles and the Scrum Values play in enhancing healthy collaboration in Scrum Teams
• Explore how facilitation can address challenging scenarios most Scrum Teams encounter
• Apply facilitation skills and techniques to improve the Scrum events and other interactions
• Understand how to encourage diverse perspectives, while bringing the team together to reach decisions
• Experience the elements of group dynamics and how they influence the decision-making process
• Leave class with a toolbox of facilitation techniques and understand how to apply them in different circumstances

Target

• Scrum Masters and any Scrum Team member interested in learning how to use facilitation to enhance their team’s success
• Scrum Coaches, Agile Coaches and Consultants

Contents

• The Five Principles of Facilitation
• How to combine facilitation with participation in discussion
• How to build on Scrum values during facilitation
• Facilitation of individual Scrum events
• Facilitation skills and how to improve them
• White elephant
• Diverge/Merge and how to overcome the "groan zone"
• Participatory decision making
• Visualization techniques
• Liberating Structures

Prerequisites

Study Materials