ICP-ATF - Agile Facilitation Tools and Techniques

What is this course? 

The ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) provides a deep dive into team facilitation. This course is for those who understand how to facilitate agile events but would like some fresh ideas using the latest facilitation tools and techniques, including Liberating Structures.

“I came into the course thinking this is what I do every day and therefore did not expect to have as many takeaways as I did at the end of the four half days.”

The course focuses on equipping you with new tools, techniques, and skills to help you take your remote facilitation skills to the next level, emphasising learning through doing and receiving feedback rather than theory. 

“John kept us, the participants, on our toes and ensured we got honest and actionable feedback. I highly recommend the course for anyone looking for growth and not just the certification.”

What value of the ICP-ATF Course?

• Gain an industry recognised certification from the most well known agile coaching certification body, which will improve your internal and external career prospects.

• Increase your existing knowledge of Agile and Facilitation

• Make yourself invaluable to your agile teams by increasing the competency of 

• Get valuable tangible answers to your real-world questions from expert coaches in the field.

• And much, much more ...

What topics are covered?

• What is Facilitation?

• The Facilitation Mindset

• The importance of planning in facilitation and how to do it

• A list of useful online tools with application ideas and any constraints

• Top tips on how to perform agile events such as the retrospective and planning

• New decision-making techniques to try with your team

• Facilitating Collaborative Conversations

• Adjusting Facilitation Given Team Maturity

• How to use liberating structures and other new tools in your agile events

• New ideas on how you can facilitate agile events @ scale

What will you receive?

Upon completing the 4 (4.5-hour) modules, you will receive the ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation (ICA-ATF)accreditation.

The certification will not expire and is a valuable industry known certificate.

This course is worth 18 SEUs towards Scrum Alliance renewal requirements. 

Who is this course suitable for?

ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with a passion for servant leadership and a desire to learn, improve and practise facilitation in the service of agile teams. Other relevant roles include Iteration Managers, Agile Project/Delivery Managers, Professional Coaches, Transformation Leads and Development team members. 

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

Although it is not a formal prerequisite, we have found that this certification is best pursued after an Agile foundations course such as ICAgile Agile Fundamentals, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Foundations or equivalent experience as an Agile Team Facilitator.

How should I prepare for this course?

Pre-work is provided, and this will take two hours to complete.

This is an online course. Will I need to install any additional software?

You will need to install zoom as the web version does not have all the features we need. You will also need access to mural. 

What about exams and certifications?

The certification is earned through practice and feedback during the course by the instructors.