ICAgile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) Certification Training

About Course

The ICP-ATF course is one of two certified courses in the Agile Coaching track from ICAgile. This course focuses on the role and mindset of an agile team facilitator. You will learn various group facilitation tools and techniques to design and lead effective meetings and workshops. The course will help you create sessions that promote better collaboration and lead to clear, decisive outcomes.

Effective Agile Coaching requires that people take their development one step at a time, obtaining competence at each step before moving on.

Agile Coaches at all developmental levels respect the boundaries of their abilities and call for assistance when needed.

What Will You Learn?

The role of an agile team facilitator in business agility.
Facilitating meetings and workshops for collaboration.
Meeting/workshop structure for a greater experience.
The mindset and role of the agile team facilitator.
Agile coaching journey starting from facilitation.
Agile team facilitator techniques.
Leading collaborative discussions.
Health checks of agile teams.

Material Includes

Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

Course Curriculum

Development Path for Agile Coaching
Effective Agile Coaching requires that people take their development one step at a time, obtaining competence at each step before moving on. Agile Coaches at all developmental levels respect the boundaries of their abilities and call for assistance when needed.

The Agile Team Facilitation Mindset
Effective meetings have a clear purpose and outcomes. These are best defined by the person with the most at stake from the outcome. Facilitators use the desired outcomes to design the meeting flow, a series of activities that help the group achieve their desired outcomes.

Conducting a Facilitated Session
Neutrality is the facilitator’s ability to focus on the group process and suspend judgments on the meeting’s content. Collaborative spaces create connections, foster trust, allow for silence, and welcome differing points of view. Great ideas come when all team members are involved, engaged, and all ideas are freely shared. Facilitated meetings are well structured and organized to provide consistency to the participants. It’sIt’s common for conversations to be mediocre – improving conversation quality leads to better understanding, fuller collaboration, and remarkable results. Being able to come to decisions is a critical function for a team, frequently problematic, and essential for moving teams to action.

Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
The connection between an Agile ceremony’s purpose and the underlying principles/values it expresses must be made explicit so that Agile ceremonies do not become empty rituals. Retrospectives are one of the essential practices to ensure the team inspects and adapts its behavior and process. Retrospectives can either help the team continuously improve or can create team dysfunctions. Stand-ups are the heartbeat of the team’s cadence, providing cohesion and commitment. Stand-ups can either launch the team into their work or become an empty, depleting ritual.

Skillfully Facilitating the Agile Practices
The ability to neutrally facilitate a session cannot be gained by reading or lectures alone, but only by doing it. It’s essential to change one’s facilitation style based on the group’s maturity and needs.