PSFS

Training Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™

Lead meetings to team decisions that everyone will stand behind.

  • How to engage even the biggest grumblers?
  • How to leverage conflict to reach a shared agreement?
  • How to be an impartial facilitator?

You will also role-play facilitating a seemingly unsolvable conflict.

Beginning
facilitator

Experienced
facilitator

Organizational
coach

Having trouble with the effectiveness of Scrum events and looking for better results?

  • Your meetings often end in chaos with no clear outcomes?

    With the right tools and techniques you can transform ineffective meetings into productive sessions.

  • How to ensure participation of all team members and engage them actively in the discussion?

    Learn techniques that increase engagement and support constructive discussion.

  • How to effectively resolve conflicts in the team and create a positive environment?

    Conflicts are not necessarily bad. Learn how to resolve them and use them to strengthen team dynamics.

Developing your Scrum skills and looking for ways to be more effective?

  • How to ensure your Scrum events don't become repetitive and routine?

    Learn techniques to bring new energy and perspective to your meetings.

  • Need ways to better engage the team and get greater value from retrospectives?

    Deepen your facilitation skills to uncover deeper problems and find solutions together.

  • How to support team dynamics and build strong relationships?

    Develop your facilitation skills to support open communication, trust and collaboration.

Leading your organization through an agile transformation or want to strengthen your role as a Scrum leader?

  • How can strong facilitation skills support agile transformation?

    Objective leadership is key to a successful transformation. Learn how leadership can bring clarity and direction.

  • How to create a culture of continuous learning and improvement in your organization?

    With facilitation you can help teams create space for reflection, experimentation and growth.

  • How to support team collaboration across different departments?

    Facilitation can serve as a bridge between teams and departments, helping eliminate barriers and support synergies.

Karel encourages discussion and lets course participants figure things out for themselves. The training was in a beautiful space with an overall very pleasant atmosphere. Looking forward to the next one.
Kamila Cingrošová, Direct pojišťovna
Karel is very experienced and serves as a great role model of a true facilitator.
Julia Mustivaya, DataSentics
Great trainer with extensive experience. Hands-on training where we get to try real facilitation. I also appreciate the materials where I can easily find help.
Oldřich Čech, Scrum Master, Foxconn ČR
The course was great. Karel is a perfect trainer. Highly recommended!
Jakub Jurášek, Česká spořitelna
The training was great, if not the best in recent years. And trust me, I don't throw superlatives around. The trainer was awesome! Real-world examples always make a difference. Thanks Karel!
Jiří Prokeš, Technology Transformation Lead, EY
Karel's approach was very open and professional. He wasn't afraid to answer any question.
Eduard Fuzessery, 2N Telekomunikace
I was inspired by Karel's approach to teaching, the way he answered questions, and especially how elegantly he handled some of the trickier topics raised by our group. Great experience, thank you!
Nicoleta Cojocaru, CN Group
The best training I've attended in recent years, interactive, full of real-world examples. Simply TOP! Thanks Karel
Martina Kruzic Kulisiakova, Test Manager
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a training this much. Karel rocks!
Tomáš Žďára, Česká spořitelna
A very inspiring and powerful experience with a professional coach, full of fun exercises. I recommend both the training and the trainer.
Jan Popelák, ComAp

A full day of practicing facilitation awaits you

You will take away your own, tailor-made development plan for facilitation skills.

Groan Zone

During the course you will explore the concept of divergent and convergent thinking (diverge-merge), and learn to navigate through the "groan zone". Through practical exercises you will learn how to lead meetings to meaningful outcomes.

Facilitation Groan Zone

Topics

  • Five principles of facilitation
  • How to combine facilitation with participation in the discussion
  • How to build on Scrum values when facilitating
  • Facilitation of individual Scrum Events
  • Facilitation skills and how to improve them
  • White elephant
  • Diverge/merge and how to overcome the "groan zone"
  • Participatory decision-making
  • Visualization techniques
  • Liberating Structures

Prior knowledge

The course assumes knowledge of Scrum at the level of the Professional Scrum Master™ course.

For more information about the course, download the official datasheet.

Dates

April 10, 2026Fri
 Prague 9-17Karelcs
15 000 Kč(until Mar 10)17 000 Kčwithout VAT

Group discounts

Do you want to have a private course for your company?

You pay a fixed price, regardless of the number of participants up to 30. Invite everyone who can benefit from the course.

  • We will prepare an agenda tailored to your needs

  • In-person or online, in Czech or English

  • Certification exam for everyone included

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Your trainer Karel Smutný

Karel is a consultant for agile transformations and organizational design, Scrum trainer and programmer.

Close to 15 years he has worked with dozens of organizations, from start-ups to established technology companies to multinational corporations. In them he "left his mark" on almost a hundred teams and thus draws on very rich experience.

Karel focuses on "descaling" (simplifying) organizations, building team responsibility and technical excellence.

As a long-time developer, he emphasizes sustainable architecture, readable code and automation.

What is ScrumDōjō

Our mission is to create conditions for meaningful work on meaningful products. Agility is the means. It helps improve customer value and the ability of product organizations to create it.

We believe that continuous contact between product teams and customers, a culture of experimentation, and high transparency are the most important ingredients for building successful products.

We develop and educate agile product organizations

  • Agile product management and Product Ownership

  • Technical excellence of development teams

  • Agile organizational design around customer products

We are the only provider of certification courses from Scrum.org, ProKanban.org and LeSS in the Czech market.

Globally recognized Scrum.org certification

You will get a solid foundation and a lot of tips and materials to prepare for the certification assessment.

PSFS

Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills

Globally recognized PSFS certification exam proves your advanced knowledge of facilitation techniques and your ability to apply them in the context of Scrum.

  • 20 questions / 30 minutes
  • Minimum passing score: 85%
  • Lifetime validity

Second attempt for free

If you attempt the assessment within 14 days after the course and fail to pass, you will get another attempt for free.

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