Gerard Wrote: "you can imagine what can happen when they're all in the room - and it did."
Yes! I have seen exactly the same thing happening. The results are typically fast, furious, and mind-blowing -- to say nothing of productive and profitable. I simply have a hard time understanding why this doesn't become standard practice -- at least with the folks who have had the experience. The old linear sequence is blown apart and the whole thing goes massively parallel. Add some customers etc and the results would be totally revolutionary. But the linear process remains. Some people will do anything to maintain control and avoid success. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Gerard Muller Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:45 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: A short introduction Hello all, This conversation reminds me of events I have facilitated for software companies, specificallly one where the issue was "How can we improve the development process for version 2.0" Even though only there were no clients, no suppliers, no vendors, or any of all the others who might have created a more diverse knowledge base, there was so much diversity internally that there was more than enough headway to be made. Tradition was that the specifications team passes on their conclusions to the design team who then passes their product on to the programming team who then hands it to the testing team who then ...... you can imagine what can happen when they're all in the room - and it did. Greetings from a wintery Denmark, Gerard Muller On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Lucas Gonzalez wrote: > --- Tom Tuddenham <ferrisox...@internode.on.net> wrote: >> open space offers the >> possibility of accelerating the commercial development of open source >> projects and that a company focussing on open source solutions could >> manage its day-to-day operations and decision making using open space >> techniques. >> if there are other open source developers out >> there in the community who share similar sentiments I would welcome >> an opportunity to take these ideas further. > > Hi > > I'm not a software developer or an open-space practitioner (yet), but > I'm interested. > > Are you suggesting that perhaps IBM could "bring the system in one > room" so they may develop a better (open source) hospital information > system? Would that work? > > Lucas > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, más seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist