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CODE: FACILITATION-AGILE-EG-01-03 DURATION: 3 DAY/S
Effective collaboration is the foundation of healthy, thriving, succesful agile teams. For
effective collaboration, all members of a group or team must share a common purpose, enjoy
mutual trust, and use agreed-upon approaches for their work. Facilitation skills help you
engineer and sustain healthy collaboration.
This practical, in-depth course teaches effective facilitation skills and collaboration
patterns that enable agile teams to succeed. You'll learn how to recognise, reward, and
leverage collaboration to enhance the quality and efficiency of your agile development efforts.
You'll learn techniques and obtain supporting materials to promote collaboration on your agile
team - from planning to delivery.
In this carefully designed and executed learning environment, you'll actively learn through lecture, examples, discussions, exercises, review sessions, and workshop simulations.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA (tm), and you'll earn 21 CDU's (Continuing
Development Units) for attending this course.
LEARN HOW TO:
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Describe unique collaboration opportunities within agile teams
- Specify core skills needed to support agile teams in successfully collaborating to deliver business value
- Understand the types of agile workshops: product roadmapping, release planning, iteration planning, requirements modeling, team chartering, retrospectives
- Use the esstential "6 P's" - purpose, participants, principles, products, place, and process - of effective agile workshops
- Plan Workshops
- Define your agile workshop products
- Design an agenda for agile workshops
- Design an iteration retrospectives workshop
- Facilitate collaborative events
- Use openers, closers and "energisers" to keep people relaxed and productive
- Ask excellent focus questions
- Lead a group toward closure using explicit decision-making techniques
- Evaluate agile workshops
- Demonstrate how to critique the results of agile workshops
- Assess the value of agile workshops
- Summarise ways to adjust the facilitation process
PROGRAMME
Part I COLLABORATING FOUNDATIONS
- Group Dynamics on Agile Teams
- Traditional versus collaborating teams
- Self-organisation of agile teams
- Team formation and sustenance
- Definition of a facilitative leader
- Facilitation skills and techniques for powerful collaboration
- Opening and closing
- Analysing and problem solving
- Filtering and deciding
- Envisioning and planning
- Managing relationships
- Reviewing and evaluating
- Attending to time and space
- Using tools and materials
- Ingredients for Designing Collaborative Interactions
- The 6 P's in agile projects
- Agenda-building patterns and tips
- Collaboration patterns
PART II PUTTING COLLABORATION TO WORK ON AGILE PROJECTS: DESIGN AND FACILITATION
- Product Roadmapping
- Elements and design of a roadmapping workshop
- Release Planning
- Elements and design of a release planning workshop
- Iteration Planning
- Elements and design of an iteration planning workshop
- Lightweight Requirements Modeling Workshops
- Elements and design of a lightweight requirements workshop
- Multi-modeling and supplemental requirements
- Team Chartering
- Elements and design of a team chartering workshop
- Iteration Retrospectives
- Whats and whys of retrospectives
- Iteration retrospective planning, design and activites
- End-of-Project Retrospectives
- Structuring an end-of-project retrospective
- End-of-project retrospective planning, design and activities
PART III COLLABORATION PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
- Evaluating feedback inside and outside your organisation
- Using facilitator resources
- Proven ways to become a skilled facilitator
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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EBG Consulting, Inc. Principal Consultant and Founder Ellen Gottesdiener helps business and technical teams collaborate to define and deliver the product customers value and need.
More about Ellen Gottesdiener
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IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?
This course will benefit everyone who is a facilitative leader on an agile team. This role can
be played by any member of an agile development team: business analysts, product owners, customers and users, scrum masters/ project leaders / facilitators, subject matter experts, data analysts, data architects and administrators, developers and designers, user interface and experience experts, agile project advistors, and coaches.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
COURSE LABS & EXERCISES
Your manual will include detailed text, illustrations and practice exercises. The rich, reusable facilitation toolkit is brimming with techniques, templates, sample agenda's, questionaires, checklists, and references. Links are provided to additional, related assets.
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