Agile Facilitator
Agile is a set of values and principles designed to promote efficient, flexible, and effective delivery of products or services. Agile has been adopted by many organizations for the provision of products and services because it promises to be more efficient. Doing things this way may require some restructuring within the organization making people who are used to doing things one way have to change their behavior so that they can do it another way.
It is very important for an agile facilitator’s role to not only be focused on facilitating but also on helping the team members understand each other and explore ways in which they can work together as a team. This will help them become more flexible and adaptive in adapting to changes made during the product design phase, from the implementation stage to sustaining life cycle stage. It would involve gathering feedback from all stakeholders by using various tools like paper prototyping, storyboarding or whiteboard sessions, workshops, etc., meeting with user groups or customers where they discuss ideas before implementing those ideas in code eventually leading towards high-level deployment stage (Valdez et al., 2011). Facilitating team meetings requires attention toward getting all stakeholders involved in every decision-making process — especially when different teams need to interact frequently with each other throughout phases of the product development lifecycle (Tucker et al., 2016). Having one person take care of all these issues at once might not give everyone equal opportunities for participation resulting in uneven relationships between individuals within the group which could cause conflict among the teams themselves (Heggestad and Stubbe, 2010). To counteract this effect, it is suggested to assign one lead person in an organization who has authority over all other stakeholders within the group and facilitate meetings for them. In some cases, individuals might still have conflicting agendas leading to a lack of trust among team members (Mullick et al., 2017). It is therefore recommended that everyone be involved from the very beginning as this will set more positive expectations on how they should interact with each other and be more likely to build stronger relationships instead of having negative feelings towards each other (Heggesta and Stubbe, 2010).
Facilitating team meetings requires attention toward getting all stakeholders involved in every decision-making process — especially when different teams need to interact frequently with each other throughout phases of the product development lifecycle (Tucker et al., 2016). Having one person take care of all these issues at once might not give everyone equal opportunities for participation resulting in uneven relationships between individuals within the group which could cause conflict among the teams themselves (Heggesta and Stubbe, 2010). It is therefore recommended that everyone be involved from the very beginning as this will set more positive expectations on how they should interact with each other and be more likely to build stronger relationships instead of having negative feelings towards each other (Heggesta and Stubbe, 2010). A facilitator’s role during such meetings would include identifying non-verbal cues displayed by individual members like eye contact or facial expressions indicating if there are any problems or want to the interaction and taking the opportunity to address them before moving on (Tucker et al., 2016). Facilitating team meetings requires attention toward getting all stakeholders involved in every decision-making process — especially when different teams need to interact frequently with each other throughout phases of the product development lifecycle (Tucker et al., 2016). Having one person take care of all these issues at once might not give everyone equal opportunities for participation resulting in uneven relationships between individuals within the group which could cause conflict among the teams themselves (Heggesta and Stubbe, 2010). It is therefore recommended that everyone be involved from the very beginning as this will set more positive expectations on how they should interact with each other and be more likely to build stronger relationships instead of having negative feelings towards each other (Heggesta and Stubbe, 2010). A facilitator’s role during such meetings would include identifying non-verbal cues displayed by individual members like eye contact or facial expressions indicating if there are any problems o