Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient, 1/e

4The Retrospective Facilitator

The role of the retrospective facilitator is very important. The facilitator can tip the balance when it comes to the success of a retrospective. However, if you’re attentive to a few things and work at it, facilitation can be a lot of fun. The goal of this chapter is to explain what you need to become a good facilitator and give you the basics. In this book, I can only touch upon many of the topics, but after this chapter, you’ll have a good foundation on which to build.

4.1 How Do I Become a Good Facilitator?

The answer to how to become a good facilitator is quite simple: practice, practice, practice. No one is born a master. Some facilitators do make it look like the easiest thing in the world, but in reality, ...