Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

This ICAgile Certified Enterprise Agility Master class will help you to gain a deep understanding of agility at the enterprise level by learning the Leadership, Cultural, Organizational structural and process perspectives.
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Overview

The ICP-ATF 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 tool-kits and gain experience facilitating specific agile practices most relevant to their organizational context.  "This accredited class is offered by ICAgile Member Organization Agile Visa".

Course Description

Agile Team Facilitation is designed for people who guide and support others in an agile work environment, including Scrum Masters, agile coaches and aspiring coaches, team leads, and project managers.

Schedules

Please find that the training that best fits your availability.

Agenda

Agile Team Facilitator Role

  • Agile Team Facilitator Mindset
  • Development Path for Agile Coaching
  • The Agile Coaching Mindset
  • Responsibilities and Skills of the Coach
  • Setting Boundaries for Coaching

Agile Mindset

  • Defining Agile Coaching
  • Coach as a Role Model
  • Servant Leadership
  • Key Mindset Shifts

Responsibilities and Skills of Facilitator

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Skills of the Coach
  • Achieving Self-Awareness/Self-Management in the Coach

Responsibilities and Skills of Facilitator

  • Internal vs. External Coaches
  • Defining the Coaching “Contract”
  • Designing a Coaching Alliance

Coach as Facilitator

  • Facilitation & the Facilitator Stance
  • Facilitating Meetings
  • Facilitating Collaboration
  • Facilitating a Meeting
  • Designing Meetings for Collaboration
  • Using the Meeting Organizing Tools
  • Facilitating Full Participation
  • Facilitating Collaborative Conversations
  • Facilitating Team Decision-Making

Facilitating Agile Practices

  • Setting the Facilitation Context
  • Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
  • Designing Meetings for Team Interaction
  • Facilitating an Agile Practice

Facilitating Chartering Practices

  • Chartering Sessions
  • Vision Sessions
  • Team Chartering

Facilitating Collaborative Practices

  • Facilitating Release Planning
  • Facilitating Iteration Planning
  • Facilitating Retrospectives
  • Facilitating Stand-Ups
  • Designing Meetings for Team Interaction
  • Practice designing and facilitating meetings
  • Chartering Sessions
  • Vision Sessions
  • Team Chartering

Benefits

Operating at the team facilitation step, agile coaches learn the core skills of facilitation and gain the self-leadership needed to use them well. For those working with teams on the ground facilitation skills are the first step because they pave 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. This step is important for coaches operating at any level of an organization or scope of influence, whether that is with one team, a group of teams, an executive team or a whole organization. Further, the skills learned at this step may also provide value for learners in other disciplines, such as product ownership, technical leadership, or delivery management.

Who Can Attend

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

  • Scrum Masters

  • Agile Project Managers

  • Agile Coaches and aspiring coaches

  • Product Owners

  • Business Analysts

and anyone with the desire to explore the power of facilitation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Post 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 is a unique skill for scrum masters, servant leaders, Agile coaches, project managers, product owners and aspiring agile coaches. If you believe that facilitation is the key to successful collaboration, and a unique must have skill for scrum masters this course is right for you.

There are no prerequisites for this course and any professional who wants to go further on their agile leadership journey can undertake this workshop.

This workshop deliverables are:

  • The mind-set of Agile team facilitation.
  • Tools and techniques for effectively designing meetings and workshops.
  • Engage the entire audience and drives toward agreed-upon outcomes.
  • Art of facilitation as key to fostering collaboration and enabling self-organizing teams.
  • Gain practical experience to facilitate specific agile practices towards successful team outcomes.

There is no exam.

Certification

ICP-ATF Certification Details

Students will be awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation certification upon completion of this course

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