Resources about Facilitation
More Scrum.org resources
Our resource center has more resources about facilitation for you to explore.
Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams
Resources outside Scrum.org
Here are more resources on facilitation techniques and to help you develop the skill of facilitation:
- International Association of Facilitators - The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) is an international participatory organization that provides accreditation, community, and education on the power of facilitation.
- Liberating Structures - Liberating Structures are microstructures that enhance relational coordination and foster lively participation in groups, making it possible to include everyone.
- Tasty Cupcakes - A community-run website with different games, techniques and approaches for facilitation
- Training from the Back of the Room - Training based on brain science principles
- Bikablo - Visualizing Dialogue and Thinking
- SeriousWork - Facilitator techniques around practice-based learning
Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills Training
This skills-building course, participants will learn how to become better facilitators to improve interactions with their Scrum Teams, stakeholders and customers. They will focus on how to adopt facilitation as a stance and enable the Scrum Values. Students will address a series of common Scrum-related scenarios by applying several facilitation techniques that they can add to their collection of agile practices. They will create and leave with their own facilitation “plan” to improve their next team discussion or Scrum event.
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Facilitation can be used to lead people toward agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, ownership and creativity by all involved. Learn about the principles of facilitation, skills and traits of a facilitator, how to facilitate diverse perspectives and explore some facilitation techniques for the Scrum Events.