[OSList] Death, Grief and Birth in Open Space

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
The SPIRIT book covers grief and grief-work in some depth. I find this theme of death and dying ("passing") to be a major part of what is typically unspoken and typically going on in an Open Space... when and where the stakes are /high/. There is a death/"annihilation" going on there, that see

Re: [OSList] Agile-in-OpenSpace videos

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Hi Harrison, All, I do join with you 100% in the "look for one less thing to do" philosophy. Sheesh, thanks for the great opening to describe the primary design goal for OAA...what a layup! Here I go: ...The primary design goal of OAA? To */reduce the coaching days needed/* to get a rapid a

Re: [OSList] OSList Archive Woes

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Nice! https://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org/ Thanks Harold! On 3/16/15 2:57 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Well, me again. I had hoped to change the subject line to something more encouraging that Archive Woes. Good news, we have archives from 1/31/2010 through t

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 49, Issue 15

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Goodness On 3/21/15 2:12 PM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote: Re:Agile adoption Thanks so much Dan for the meticulous parsing and development of OST that OS Agile Adoption represents! You are welcome! I am glad you like it. I wonder if the patterns you've identified are simply "natural"

Re: [OSList] Agile-in-OpenSpace videos

2015-03-21 Thread Harrison via OSList
Dan --- Our organizations are definitely stodgy. Even the best of them seem to clunk along when compared to what they might be doing. God knows how you could ever produce any numbers to prove this assertion, but I have yet to met anybody (even the wildest enthusiast) who would affirm that their

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 49, Issue 15

2015-03-21 Thread Anne Stadler via OSList
Re:Agile adoption Thanks so much Dan for the meticulous parsing and development of OST that OS Agile Adoption represents! I wonder if the patterns you've identified are simply "natural" patterns for group Self-Realization, encoded in our DNA? Does that perhaps account for the fact that peop