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

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Adapting for Virtual

This book is agnostic about in person versus virtual facilitation. Although we mention a few tips and differences between the two mediums, it is our belief that facilitators can adapt most facilitation techniques for virtual use, provided the right tooling is available, such as a good virtual meeting platform and virtual whiteboard space.

All the facilitation principles we have discussed in this book still apply whether facilitation is taking part in a physical or a virtual setting. For example, the facilitation principle of purposeful is arguably even more important in a virtual session when participants’ attention is competing with background activities such as barking dogs, playing children, arriving packages, and the ...