Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams: Improve Team Alignment, Effectiveness and Outcomes

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Facilitation Principles

The five facilitation principles¹ of participative, purposeful, process, transparency, and healthy are core to effective facilitation. Facilitators should draw on these principles when deciding which facilitation skills and techniques might serve a group best to achieve their objective. Facilitation principles are intertwined and support each other.

1. Adapted from “Principles of Meeting Excellence” from SeriousWork and Sean Blair.

Participative

Participative is the core facilitation principle. A facilitator should aim to get full participation from a group so that they get the benefits of all participants’ skills, knowledge, and perspectives.

Full participation does not imply that all participants must speak. Rather, ...