Facilitation skills make the difference between dreaded “meetings” and engaging, productive team activities. Facilitation skills are essential for all roles in an agile development team – whether technical, product, design, or coach – because they’re crucial for cross-functional collaboration, conflict resolution, decision-making, navigating uncertainty, fostering a flexible/trusting team environment, and most of all, making agile’s frequent meeting cadence useful and even enjoyable. Hone your facilitation skills to ensure your team achieves the desired outcomes.

In this engaging workshop, we’ll learn facilitation skills by getting hands-on and putting the facilitation skills into practice. When done well, they seem like magic! We will demystify the great techniques used by effective facilitators. You will see that they’re completely achievable with a bit of listening and a bit more practice.

Agile Essentials sessions are designed for first-time Agile Alliance conference attendees and anyone new to Agile or looking for a refresh. Each one provides a broad overview of key agile practices and the principles behind them. You’ll leave feeling grounded, up-to-date on the latest agile concepts, and ready to take on new challenges in any role or any agile framework.