The Agile Facilitator

In some organisations and projects it's highly rated, in others it's under-used or misunderstood, but facilitated workshops are a powerful tool at the disposal of an agile project and indeed in many other business situations.This presentation describes what a Facilitated Workshop is and when it can be used. It also reveals some of the characteristics that need to be right for them to be successful including preparation, the room used and managing people. And it will suggest that well run facilitated workshops can have a positive impact on the way the whole agile project is run.This talk is aimed at Business managers, IT managers, team leaders and team members who are working on or thinking of working on agile projects or who would simply like to know more about facilitated workshops.

About the Speaker

Kevin Barron leads Hewlett-Packard's Business Analysis team as part of its Business Transformation Consulting practice. He joined HP via the CGNZ acquisition. His interest in agile and workshop facilitation began back in 1995 in the early days of DSDM. He ran his first workshop when someone thought he ought to give it a go and he liked it so much he kept doing it. Since then he has run workshops for many projects in the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden as well as New Zealand.He has many years of training and presenting on agile and facilitation behind him and is a Certified Facilitation Practitioner and DSDM Trainer. Major workshops or series of workshops have included the UK National Lottery online, retrospectives on a large Australian SAP implementation, train crew rostering for German Railways and negotiations between UK banks and retailers on implementing PIN at POS.

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