Hello, great people of the world. In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article, we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, the facilitation stance. A great Scrum Master is a great facilitator, otherwise, the Scrum Master will be seen as no more than a master of ceremonies or even an event organizer. A great Scrum Master is able to facilitate an event that leads to a high-quality decision that is owned by the whole group attending that event.

By default, the Scrum Master facilitates the Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, and Product Backlog refinement sessions. Throughout this article, I am going to use the term "facilitated event" as it may refer to more than just the built-in Scrum events. Throughout this article, I am also going to refer to a group rather than Scrum Team, because there are many instances where the Scrum Master needs to facilitate an event between a group of people outside of the Scrum Team or between the Scrum Team and those outside of the Scrum Team.

So What Is Facilitation?

In many cultures, I have seen how a facilitator is undermined and seen as the master of ceremony or an event organizer. I’ve even witnessed a program manager tell me that Sprint Retrospectives are less important than Sprint Planning because Sprint Retrospectives are just about having that touchy feeling. That is quite sad. Facilitation is not a passive activity. In fact, facilitation requires skills and facilitating an engaging event itself is an art. The outcome of the facilitated event is a high-quality decision. So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people.

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