Hi Jake, 

Thanks for posting this, it’s interesting and mostly matches my experience of 
both OST and Agile. Your final slide captures my observations as well. I 
introduced OST at one of the early Scrum Gatherings in Boulder because I saw 
the same shared intentions you’ve noticed, a reliance on effective 
self-organizing and the power of a focus on continuous learning, for the 
individuals, teams, and organizations. 

I wonder about two of your assertions;:

1) “only product owners and stakeholders can suggest features.” This seems more 
rigid than my experience. Also more a Scrum perspective than Agile writ large. 
I’ve noticed in certain teams (usually with, or seeking, Optimizing fluency in 
the Agile Fluency Model lingo, aka Agile’s Promise) everyone on the 
cross-functional team can suggest features because they all understand the 
customer/user’s needs and all have a sense of the business direction and goals 
for their product. While it’s true that on Focusing and Delivering teams, it’s 
much more likely that those with Product Management/Development roles will 
bring features/MMF’s to the team, it’s possible that a team member could 
suggest a feature idea that emerges from technical alternatives and the their 
business liaison/product owner might accept it.

2) In the two final rows on Outcomes slide 10, I don’t understand your “N/A”’s. 
It seems to me both are true for both groups. OST and Agile SWD may express 
shared purpose and risk reduction differently, yet in effective implementations 
those outcomes are present in both. 

Onward! 
Diana


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> On Sep 27, 2019, at 12:50 AM, Jake Yeager via OSList 
> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> Hey everyone,
> 
> I've drafted a presentation 
> <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_K8lGum7GgwtyZzQXAOJUoUzRcglDmlBD22exC8skqk/edit?usp=sharing>
>  comparing organizational Open Space to agile software development. Others 
> have mentioned how similar they are, so I wanted to understand for myself.
> 
> Feel free to use the presentation. Also, I enabled comments if you want to 
> provide feedback. Feedback is definitely welcome!
> 
> Also, thank you Birgitt and Marai for your responses regarding the case 
> studies. Will respond this weekend.
> 
> Much love,
> Jake
> 
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