Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach

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Group Facilitation

A meeting without a facilitator is about as effective as a sports team trying to play a game without a referee.

—Ingrid Bens¹

During the adoption and afterwards, there are many times where you need to facilitate a group of people. Although we provide workshop examples and facilitation tips throughout this book, in this chapter we focus on how to prepare and facilitate workshops in general and Scrum events in particular.

Principles of Facilitation

Have you ever been in a meeting that was boring and not useful? Unfortunately, we have been in lots of those meetings. We’ve noticed that in unproductive meetings, at least a few of the following points are true:

• There is no clear goal.

• You do not know your progress against your ...