Facilitation Principles

The Scrum Values are at the heart of a Professional Scrum Team, guiding them in their work, actions and behavior. Complementary to the Scrum Values are the facilitation principles of participatory, healthy, transparency, process and purposeful. Falling back on these core principles can help facilitators work with teams to achieve objectives collaboratively in different situations. These principles can also help facilitators decide which facilitation skills and techniques might be appropriate and useful. This holds true not only when creating an energetic environment where the team is engaged and focused on achieving the objective together, but also when interactions do not go as expected.

Participatory - Core to effective facilitation is full participation and engagement, which enables shared responsibility in a team

Healthy - A safe environment means creating a healthy space where people feel safe to raise differences and even conflicting perspectives while respectfully learning from each other

Transparency - Transparency only exists when there is shared understanding

Process - Facilitation should enable a team to progress toward the desired objective of the interaction in a way that is collaborative, inclusive and leverages diverse perspectives 

Purposeful - Well-facilitated sessions should have a clear objective that everyone is aligned with and works toward

These facilitation meeting principles are based on the principles by Certified Professional Facilitator Sean Blair from SeriousWork and Promeet (https://bit.ly/3p2tT4E); they have been adapted slightly within the context and language of Scrum.