Harold - Totally brilliant! The words could never have been mine (thank God) and you have so neatly captured the moment. Well done!! But one small point. You said, "Perhaps Open Space Technology came out of Organizational Development (and Organizational Transformation)." Open Space didn't come "out of" any of the above. Two martinis: pure and simple. Actually, OS didn't come out of 2 Martinis - it was already there. But I needed 2 Martinis to allow myself to experience a blinding flash of the obvious. Some people are a little slow!
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 6:24 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Genuinely open Agile adoptions Dan, Thank you for forwarding that interview. I've worked with your interviewer Amr Elssamadisy before in Dr. Christopher Avery's "Leadership Gift" program. Great to hear his voice. Thought he did a great job bringing forward your insights. It's hard for me to express how deeply your thinking aligned with what I see as the essence of Open Space, and what I feel emerging in my own psyche and that in the collective when we spoke and I got to be present at your session in Nashville at Agile 2013 last month. I continue to find your material to be a critical piece in helping bridge the Open Space and Agile communities - something Peggy Holman called "Sister Communities" at the World Open Space on Open Space in St. Petersburg back in May. I'd heard your thinking before and it continues to astound me the relevance and power in getting these two communities to work together. Open Space truly is the "secret sauce" making possible successful Agile adoptions. The science behind this awareness goes deep. The timing of it feels like perfection. You seem to be getting just the right audiences to engage with this idea. And what you posted earlier in terms of a framework for adoption involving interspersed Open Space events to help promote agency and engagement - very exciting. Very simple. Truly elegant. And phrased in a way the holders of the bottom line can "get it". What's new about your stuff? Perhaps it's been mentioned before - but here are some points I find most critical. 1) The Mandate. Perhaps Open Space Technology came out of Organizational Development (and Organizational Transformation). But most attempts to transform the organization that I've seen have been "rolled out". Kind of like a steam roller. It's definitely mandated. You went into great depth in your Agile 2013 presentation how Mandated Agile goes fundamentally against the values and principles in the Agile Manifesto. Open Space can help us bring back the original thinking of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto. 2) Games and engagement. Jane McGonigal's book "Reality Is Broken", and the whole arena of Gamification, has become a focal point of driving home ideas from positive psychology, and is also driving many huge wheels of industry (and dollars). Because getting people excited about using your products is important. Getting employees excited about contributing to your products - also critical. But I'd never heard anyone describe Open Space Technology as a beautifully designed game before. This perception I think plays directly with the TOOL versus PHILOSOPHY debate in our community. 3) Agency. This might have been a significant idea as well in Paolo Friere's book - "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Without people feeling like they have some say in how they apply their blood, sweat, and tears - engagement is not going to happen. Open Space is a critical way to nurture agency in people. I'm so thankful that you've started posting on the OSList and I look forward to how things unfold. From what I see you saying, and how I see people are hearing you, it seems as if we're on target for a much more explicit chapter in the relationship between the Agile and Open Space "sister communities". Thanks! Harold On 9/4/13 2:37 PM, Daniel Mezick wrote: Here's a 16-minute video that explains the crisis of disengagement in Agile adoptions, and how the time to act was yesterday, and how Open Space can help... http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dan-mezick-qcon-new-york-2013 -- Daniel Mezick, President New Technology Solutions Inc. -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
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