One more thing: There is a really interesting weblog out there called "Group Forming blog" which could stand to have more conversation from OST facilitators. This is a group that is primarily knowledge management researchers and workers, looking at how groups form and the implications of group forming processes on the kinds of software that manage knowledge (I'm going right off this term these days...). Early on I chimed in with OST, but I got sidetracked and the conversation went chugging merrily along without me.
Anyway, the blog is here: http://www.aquameta.com/gf/drupal/ Enjoy, Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com ch...@chriscorrigan.com > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of > Christine Kent > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 2:54 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Business Analysis and Training > > Hello All > > I am a very recent newcomer to open space, and am finding that wherever I > look and whatever I do, I see how it could be done better using OST. > > I wonder if there has been any discussion on this list about the use of > OS > in the software development lifecycle? I have done a quick trawl of on > line > resources and have not stumbled over anything yet. > > I am a business analyst/technical writer/trainer, mostly of software > systems, and I am talking to some people at the moment about using an > open > space process. There are aspects of software development that we know to > be > ineffective and to work largely because of self organisation rather than > because of the development methodology being used. The vast part of > information management, ie, getting information from the business and > communicating it back to the business works despite systems rather than > because of them. > > The aspects that interest me are the potential of open space to improve > data > collection, data management and communication. Firstly, has it been used > during the business analysis phase, where the full range of business > requirements of the new system are collected? Secondly, has it been used > to > then design the collation and storage of that data using open > technologies. > As a third step, has it then been used to solicit from the users what > support materials they need and how they want them presented, and > fourthly, > has it ever been used to actually train something as apparently 'fixed' > as a > software system? > > If anyone has any direct experiences with any of these phases, business > analysis, data storage, support materials design, or training delivery, > or > if there is anything archived, I would love to hear it. I can see ways > of > doing each of these using OS which I am sure will work, but they are > sounding far fetched to my colleagues (even leaving aside any discussion > of > the esoteric aspects of the process). So I need more than my own > imagination to go on. > > Regards, Christine > Ph: +61 3 97376770 > Mobile: 0407 604010 > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
