[OSList] OPEN SPACE LEARNING, FREMANTLE , WESTERN AUSTRALIA, May 11-12, 2016

2016-03-08 Thread Brendan McKeague via OSList 
Hello folks

I have posted details of our next Open Space Learning Program on the Events 
Calendar

http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/calendar/ 

Should anyone wish to join us in beautiful Western Australia, you will be very 
welcome. 


Cheers
Brendan


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Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

2016-03-08 Thread Harold Shinsato via OSList 

Thank you so much for posting about this topic, Harrison!

And I'm so grateful for hearing Birgitt's tale. It has opened my mind, 
and heart.


If you didn't hear this story from Daniel, I'll offer it here. It is my 
own *PAINFUL* experience with Capital A "Agile" in software development. 
There is a huge amount of discontent in the Agile space, even as it 
continues to grow and obtain mind share. Part of the way that Daniel 
phrases it (and I do too) is that Mandated Agile is very bad. Deadly. It 
crushes engagement. I think it has also been crushing the true spirit of 
Agile.


And what Birgitt is offering from her experience is amazing. I feel 
humbled to have not recognized how applicable her story has been to what 
I've been trying to work on with helping organizations. But perhaps it 
has been my own journey especially the last month that has awakened me 
so much more to Birgitt's phenomenal work. I have ordered her book from 
Amazon (The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a Culture of Leadership). 
And I hope to get to one of these workshops soon as well.


For me - "Open Space Technology" - the tool - is amazing. Resilient. But 
the "Tool" is not the point. The point is "open space". Our innate 
humanity is what is opened in a good OS event. That's why it's true - 
the biggest Axiom of all in this work - "it's all open space"!


While I'm offering praise and thanks - I'd like to add Diana Larsen to 
the mix. Her work at finding the real connection to the Spirit of Agile 
- in connecting Agile to Open Space - has been a huge influence on me. 
The AgileOpen program as supported by the Agile Alliance has brought 
Agile coaches, practitioners, and learners together in Open Space in 
cities around the world for 10 years now. It was only at two Agile Open 
events this year - one in Seattle and one in San Diego - that I've 
started to understand at an even deeper the powerful people element at 
the heart of Agile. It's right there in the manifesto - but it continues 
to be taken to greater lengths by practitioners and explorers in the 
Agile space.


Perhaps a couple elements in the Agile space that resonate deeply 
(beyond of course the wonderful OpenSpace Agility) are the work around 
"Mob Programming" and "#NoEstimates". Explaining these two things are 
way beyond the scope of this thread - but returning what Birgitt speaks 
to - it is how important are the holistic elements of our connection to 
each other take us beyond any particular process. Encouraging leadership 
in our community - not just the formal management - is what makes things 
like "Mobbing" (multiple people working together at one computer and one 
keyboard), and "#NoEstimates" (which is never promising what we don't 
really understand but instead focus on continuous delivery of value).


These newer evolutions of Agility - do indeed maybe make "Scrumming" 
working too hard. Though I do think Scrum can be helpful, the process 
was never what made Agile truly Agile. "Individuals and Interactions 
over Processes and Tools"!!!


Warm regards,
Harold


On 3/8/16 1:03 PM, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:

the middle of all that... but I do have some thoughts about Agile and Open 
Space.

I get that Dan and many others understand Open Space to be a useful tool/mechanism/means 
for "Agile Introduction." Agile Introduction, is of course, magic words for the 
initiated and obscure for some of the rest of us... Be that as it may... I agree. It 
works. AND

Just to be a little provocative I might suggest that Open Space is not the tool (means, mechanism), but 
the context. Of course I should probably remove the capitals and just do "os" -- pointing to what 
for me is "the magic sauce." That would be the process of Self Organization. Or as I said (sort of) 
in some other place: Real Agility is the fully conscious and intentional realization of the power of self 
organization. So open space (small o, s) is simply the context in which everything happens. And things work 
much better (agile, effective, efficient, etc) when we cheerfully align ourselves with the way things are -- 
as opposed to "fighting the system" to make it the way we think it should be.

Could it then be that SCRUMMING is working much too hard? Might it be better to carefully 
note and study what we can do naturally before trying to improve it? We could then take 
all that as a "base" -- and who knows where we might end up?

Harrison

Winter Address
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, MD 20854


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Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

2016-03-08 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList 
Birgitt -- How Nice to see you here! And great to hear your tale retold with 
all the added experience!

I would not even try to get in the middle of all that... but I do have some 
thoughts about Agile and Open Space.

I get that Dan and many others understand Open Space to be a useful 
tool/mechanism/means for "Agile Introduction." Agile Introduction, is of 
course, magic words for the initiated and obscure for some of the rest of us... 
Be that as it may... I agree. It works. AND

Just to be a little provocative I might suggest that Open Space is not the 
tool (means, mechanism), but the context. Of course I should probably remove 
the capitals and just do "os" -- pointing to what for me is "the magic sauce." 
That would be the process of Self Organization. Or as I said (sort of) in some 
other place: Real Agility is the fully conscious and intentional realization of 
the power of self organization. So open space (small o, s) is simply the 
context in which everything happens. And things work much better (agile, 
effective, efficient, etc) when we cheerfully align ourselves with the way 
things are -- as opposed to "fighting the system" to make it the way we think 
it should be.

Could it then be that SCRUMMING is working much too hard? Might it be better to 
carefully note and study what we can do naturally before trying to improve it? 
We could then take all that as a "base" -- and who knows where we might end up?

Harrison

Winter Address
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
301-365-2093

Summer Address
189 Beaucaire Ave.
Camden, ME 04843
207-763-3261

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of 
Birgitt Williams via OSList
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 11:30 AM
To: 'Doug Marteinson'; 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'
Subject: Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First 
Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

Hi Doug,
Great to hear from you. I remember that we had follow on conversations after 
the OST training...and about 20 years have passed since. I have continued my 
exploration of what works and what doesn't work regarding what it takes to make 
the most of the outcomes of an OST meeting or other participatory meetings in 
organizations in ways that make a long term difference. I continue to 
experience that well planned and facilitated meetings are a catalyst for 
change, including transformative change in organizations. The results in this 
regard, however, are often not sustainable if other factors aren't taken into 
consideration. The primary factor, as you also note, is about leadership. It is 
not possible to share all that I have had the great privilege of learning and 
experiencing regarding this quest and exploration. I can share a few key points 
for now.

1. In the early 90's from my vantage point as the head staff of a multi-service 
social and health agency, I came to understand early that with repeated use of 
OST, we uncovered what is exists in every organization under the surface...the 
Open Space Organization.

2. We soon shifted to realizing that the benefit was gained, not from reaching 
outside of ourselves to something external, but to pulling off as many barriers 
as we could to getting to this Open Space Organization. We accepted the 
perspective that we needed to be aware of this existent organization, more 
conscious of its existence. I shifted the name to Conscious Open Space 
Organization.

3. Formal leaders who had the courage to lead with higher degrees of 
participation, more use of OST and in our case Whole Person Process Facilitated 
meetings discovered something that started to become counter-productive. The 
people within their organizations perceived that everything was meant to be 
open space, using the law of mobility (two feet) without the accompanying sense 
of responsibility to the results of the organization. We had not intended to 
convey that this was so as there are always givens, the formal leaders are held 
accountable for the performance of the organization either for their 
shareholders or in the public eye. We shifted the name to Genuine Contact 
Organization as an attempt to solve this, abandoning the words 'open space' in 
the title. Organizations that develop themselves certainly don't identify 
themselves as Genuine Contact organizations. There is no need. The title simply 
helps us to convey that there is a model, a system, a process, ingredients that 
need to be paid attention to. I am happy to say that there are an increasing 
number of leaders with the courage to lead differently and to embrace high 
levels of participation. 

4. The key ingredient is always leadership, how it is carried out, how it is 
perceived. People

[OSList] Please spread the word - OST Training in Berlin April 20-22

2016-03-08 Thread Thomas Herrmann via OSList 
Dear friends in Open Space and Genuine Contact

We do have some space left for more participants on our upcoming wonderful
three-day-journey to learn to work with Open Space Technology. 

And we do have a dreamteam – Anna Caroline Türk, Doris Gottlieb and myself.
We have facilitated hundreds of conferences from 5-700 participants, we love
to learn and to have fun together and we’d love if you can pass the
information on to whoever you think is interested. OST is as much needed now
as it ever was.

 

The other day we recorded a brief video sharing a little about what we’re up
to – have a look!
 

More information about the training can be found HERE!
 

 

Thanks for supporting us and humanity :)

Thomas, Doris and Anna Caroline

 

Thomas Herrmann

Open Space Consulting AB

  www.openspaceconsulting.com

Ni når oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:
 tho...@openspaceconsulting.com 

 

Open Space Consulting AB är ett företag med STORA ambitioner att guida
ledare, organisationer men även lokalsamhällen att nå sin fulla kraft för
att infria sina drömmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg för
att stödja er att finna er bästa väg.  

 

Mer information

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult

Facebook Företagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting 

 

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Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

2016-03-08 Thread Birgitt Williams via OSList 
Hi Doug,
Great to hear from you. I remember that we had follow on conversations after 
the OST training...and about 20 years have passed since. I have continued my 
exploration of what works and what doesn't work regarding what it takes to make 
the most of the outcomes of an OST meeting or other participatory meetings in 
organizations in ways that make a long term difference. I continue to 
experience that well planned and facilitated meetings are a catalyst for 
change, including transformative change in organizations. The results in this 
regard, however, are often not sustainable if other factors aren't taken into 
consideration. The primary factor, as you also note, is about leadership. It is 
not possible to share all that I have had the great privilege of learning and 
experiencing regarding this quest and exploration. I can share a few key points 
for now.

1. In the early 90's from my vantage point as the head staff of a multi-service 
social and health agency, I came to understand early that with repeated use of 
OST, we uncovered what is exists in every organization under the surface...the 
Open Space Organization.

2. We soon shifted to realizing that the benefit was gained, not from reaching 
outside of ourselves to something external, but to pulling off as many barriers 
as we could to getting to this Open Space Organization. We accepted the 
perspective that we needed to be aware of this existent organization, more 
conscious of its existence. I shifted the name to Conscious Open Space 
Organization.

3. Formal leaders who had the courage to lead with higher degrees of 
participation, more use of OST and in our case Whole Person Process Facilitated 
meetings discovered something that started to become counter-productive. The 
people within their organizations perceived that everything was meant to be 
open space, using the law of mobility (two feet) without the accompanying sense 
of responsibility to the results of the organization. We had not intended to 
convey that this was so as there are always givens, the formal leaders are held 
accountable for the performance of the organization either for their 
shareholders or in the public eye. We shifted the name to Genuine Contact 
Organization as an attempt to solve this, abandoning the words 'open space' in 
the title. Organizations that develop themselves certainly don't identify 
themselves as Genuine Contact organizations. There is no need. The title simply 
helps us to convey that there is a model, a system, a process, ingredients that 
need to be paid attention to. I am happy to say that there are an increasing 
number of leaders with the courage to lead differently and to embrace high 
levels of participation. 

4. The key ingredient is always leadership, how it is carried out, how it is 
perceived. People in general still mix up 'management' with 'leadership', yet 
they are very different functions. I am referring to leadership. In the past 
few years, and covered in my first book The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a 
Culture of Leadership, I have focused on declaring a new leadership paradigm 
'leading so people will lead' and its accompanying requirement to develop the 
skills, knowledge and capacity to 'nourish a culture of leadership'. Leadership 
gets perceived as a verb, an action, and not limited to a position.

5. For those interested in the longer term benefits of efforts made with OST, 
Agile, other methods, it is important to think beyond self organizing. The best 
that I can explain this is that formal leadership needs support to expand its 
leadership capacity for the additional skills and competencies needed while 
handling the paradox of high participation plus their personal accountability 
for performance. The people engaged in long term self organizing models of 
working (not just a meeting or two) ultimately need to wrestle with their 
perspectives of leadership, how to claim their personal leadership, how to work 
with it, and how to participate in nourishing a culture of leadership.

6. It turns out that 'leadership' is a very emotional topic...I discovered this 
at every leadership workshop I carried out in the past while. It is a topic 
seldom discussed in organizations including in families.

7. I am very passionate about leadership development being some of the most 
important work on the planet at this time. For those of us who love methods 
like OST, it is a worthy and important addition to getting more out of our work 
with these methods because we are on to something more important with these 
methods than we might currently understand.

It is good to hear your perspective that Agile methods are complementary to 
Open Space Technology. I am understanding that the level of how complimentary 
they are to each other also depends on the perspective, attitude, etc of the 
persons who facilitate the combination of the methods, the depth of their 
understanding and commitment to the Agile Manifesto principles, a

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