PSFS - Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ (EN)

You will be guided by Karel Smutný

Karel is a consultant for agile transformations and Organizational Design, a Scrum trainer and a programmer. For more than 13 years, he has worked…

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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

This course is ideal for:
  • 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

During the course, you will try a number of facilitation techniques and Liberating Structures yourself. You will explore individual facilitation skills and take away your own plan for improving them.
  • 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

This course is not suitable for professionals with little Scrum knowledge or experience.

Study Materials

Materials are in electronic form.

PSFS - Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ (EN)

Selected course term

7.4.2025  ONLINE

Price
17 000 CZK + 21% VAT

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