The Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF) training is designed to grow your mindset, knowledge, and practical ability in professional facilitation. Effective facilitation is a core competency for any Agile coach, enabling teams to co-create meaningful, committed outcomes and fostering collaborative leadership.
This Certified Agile Facilitator course supports your development with real-world challenges, helping you build confidence in guiding teams and organisations. As your facilitation skills evolve, so does your impact as a facilitator and as an Agile coach driving growth across your organisation.
- Public Course Options: Online
- Duration: 2 days
- Level: Advanced
- Extras: Free monthly coaching circles (ECC) for graduates of advanced Agile programs to collaborate on real challenges.
This Certified Agile Facilitator training is delivered in partnership with Evelyn Konsult AB
Course Overview
The Certified Agile Facilitator course is designed for individuals looking to strengthen their skills in leading Agile teams and ceremonies. It focuses on advanced facilitation techniques, fostering collaboration, and improving communication within Agile teams. Participants will learn how to handle group dynamics, resolve conflicts, and drive team effectiveness, all while upholding Agile principles. This course empowers facilitators to guide teams toward achieving their goals in complex environments.
Download our comprehensive course guide for detailed information about the content covered in our Certified Agile Facilitator course.
What is included?
- An immersive learning experience facilitated by a highly respected, approved guide-level practitioner
- Access to the training MURAL board that is worked on during the class, as well as supporting course materials after the training
- Registration for the Certified Agile Facilitator certification
- Free monthly coaching circles (ECC) for graduates of advanced Agile programs to collaborate on real challenges.
Exam
There is no exam required to earn this certification, but prior to the workshop there are the following requirements:
- Approximately 60 minutes of preparation / pre-work
- Homework and practices – approximately 4 hours on average (not including the time spent during facilitation sessions)
- 1/2 day follow-up session
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for product people (product managers, product owners) to facilitate workshops with stakeholders.
Roles such as these will all benefit tremendously by taking the Certified Facilitation certification:
- Project Managers
- People Managers
- Scrum Master and Agile Coaches wanting to advance their facilitation skills
- Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach
- Anybody who wants to learn about group facilitation
Prerequisites
Everyone is welcome to take this course, and there are zero restrictions on registering for the class. For anybody who doesn’t understand Agile and Scrum, some preparation work has to be done to work with facilitation in an Agile context.
This course requires a minimum attendance of 16 hours. As long as the CF prerequisites are met, full attendance and participation will result in registration as a Certified Agile Facilitator.
What do I need?
Online Courses
- We require delegates to use a laptop, computer or device with a large screen to ensure they can participate without the limitations of using a smaller device.
- A reliable internet connection is vital.
What will I learn?
- Facilitation Fundamentals
- Facilitation Essentials
- Facilitation Stages
- Orientation of A Facilitator
- Meta skills
- Deep democracy
- Co-facilitation
- Facilitation Practice and Advancement
Participants can select from a list of popular Agile and Scrum-related events to practice with. Commonly, participants practice their facilitation learning with the following topics:
- Product backlog refinement
- Sprint planning with multiple teams
- Sprint review with multiple teams and multiple stakeholders
- Sprint retrospective of different teams and at scale
- Organisation level retrospective
- ScrumMaster community related
- Product Owner community-related
- Story mapping workshop
- Product visioning workshop
- Product strategy-related workshops
- Product roadmap planning sessions
- Stakeholder alignment workshop
- Leadership learning related
- Value stream mapping workshop
- OKR workshop and more…
Our approved guide-level practitioners have a wealth of experience and deep expertise in agile methodologies.
Free monthly coaching circles (ECC) for graduates of advanced Agile programs to collaborate on real challenges.
All of our courses are available to be delivered in-house for your team or organisation
This course is available as part of a training package to maximise your training budget
Benefits of Agile Facilitator Training
Facilitation extends far beyond running meetings. With strong facilitation skills, you can enhance the effectiveness of any conversation or collaboration. Whether leading one-on-ones, managing large discussions with diverse stakeholders, or ensuring you’re fully present for your team, effective facilitation makes a significant difference. These skills empower you to guide discussions, drive clarity, and improve team outcomes across various interactions.
- Support innovation with effective facilitation in any interaction
- Receive a globally recognised certification to prove your skill set
- Save organisations time and money by guiding focused, productive collaboration
- Guide groups through conflict and varied opinions to reach creative solutions
- Increase a group’s commitment and buy-in by ensuring diverse voices and perspectives are included and valued
Upcoming Certified Agile Facilitator Training:
No course currently planned
Our Trainers
This Certified Agile Facilitator course will be delivered by one of the below Certified Scrum Trainers:
Evelyn Tian
Evelyn Tian is a coach, trainer and keynote speakers of international conferences.
She has 30 years of product experience in telecom products, automotive industry, financial sectors, pharma, e-commerce and more, from product management, project management, system architect, software development, system integration and installation, and customer support. She can easily move between high-level strategic management discussions and detailed discussions on software craftsmanship.
Certified Agile Facilitator Training Information and FAQs
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation is possible up to two weeks before the start of a course without cost. After that point, the full course fee is due regardless of whether the registered person participates in the course. Participants can be substituted without charge.
You can find full details of our terms and conditions for our training courses, including cancellation and transfer policies on our terms and conditions page.
Why become a Certified Agile Facilitator?
- Integrate your existing knowledge and skills to unleash your facilitation potential
- Stand out in your industry as an advanced member of the globally recognised Scrum Alliance community
- Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace
- Support your teams and organisations’ advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional.
- Deep dive of an in-demand skill that goes beyond technique alone and explores the mindset of a facilitator
- Live, immersive facilitation practice
- Membership with the Scum Alliance
- Contributes to evidence of facilitation experience when you apply to become a CEC or CTC
Training Packages
Our training packages aim to serve you. They help you define a clear pathway for your professional development with a range of training at a more cost-effective price.
If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for, get in touch. We will work with you to create a bespoke training pathway that suits your or your team’s learning aspirations at a price that suits your budget.
Pre-work
- Preparation prior to the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes on average
- 2-day workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops
- Homework and practices – approximately 4 hours on average (not including the time spent during facilitation sessions)
- 1/2 day follow-up session
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