How to Facilitate Agile Meetings and Workshops

It is not difficult! With some training and guidance, you'll be setup for success in no time!
This book is filled with valuable insights from real-life experiences. Follow the process in the book and you will equip yourself with the skills required to plan and run your own successful agile meetings and lean workshops!
Effective Communication Skills Are More Critical in Virtual Meetings
When you're working remotely, meetings are even more challenging (and often unproductive) than in person. Remote workers feel disconnected from their coworkers and managers, which decreases accountability and productivity.
Effective online facilitation skills ensure that everyone's contributions are heard and considered and keep the conversation productive and focused.
By using the practical examples presented in this book, you can run engaging, productive, and efficient meetings and workshops in person AND online.
What Is Agile Facilitation Anyway?
Traditional elements of facilitation-exploring an issue in depth, building trust, leveraging diverse perspectives, establishing commitment, providing direction, creating transparency, making viable decisions, and strengthening mutual accountability-still apply in agile approaches. These components create a safe environment in which to explore current reality and future options.
Agile facilitation uses a combination of tools and methods to create a meeting environment that is safe, dynamic, and motivating. Participants make real progress in their work while also having fun. Agility is not new packaging for the same content as before: it is an attitude. It is how you approach your team members and customers, how you make decisions and solve problems.
The best facilitators engage participants by asking questions, directing conversations, and ensuring that everyone contributes. They keep the group focused by redirecting them when they get off track.
This book helps you run productive agile conversations, meetings, and workshops, keep them on-track, and engage a broader range of stakeholders in your organization.
Whether Scrum Release Planning or Kanban Replenishment Meetings, Preparation Is Key to Success
The key to effective agile software development meetings is being prepared-know what topics you want to discuss, who will be participating, and what material will be needed for the discussion. For each topic, know what questions you want answered or points discussed. Do not let yourself get carried away with your own thoughts during discussions; instead, make sure they keep focus on achieving goals set at the beginning of each meeting.
Each chapter in our book ends with actionable takeaways that you can employ in your next team meeting.
The Key to Better Agile Meetings Is Soft Skills for Facilitators AND Contributors
Agile meetings or workshops can be awkward and uncomfortable for all involved. If you are leading a workshop, you need to be able to control the conversation, keep everyone on track and make sure everyone is participating.
If you're attending a meeting or workshop, you need to know how to participate in a way that helps the group reach its goals.
If you are involved in agile processes, then this book is for you! We will discuss how soft skills can help facilitate agile meetings and workshops and empower the team to achieve their shared goals. You'll also learn when and how to use specific facilitation techniques to help your group work better/faster/smarter.


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