Thank you Harold,
Since being introduced to the Scrum/Agile community which happened when Harrison facilitated a one-day Open Space event in Orlando this year, I've been drawn to their culture, processes and tools which I know was inspired by Open Space principles. What you describe here connects with what I have been struggling with knowing that Open Space can powerfully ignite individual and collective passion on what people truly care about and yet somehow the pent-up desire for action that starts to percolate (which I know cannot be rushed) doesn't always materialize afterwards. The News Wall and the reports are so important and sometimes when some folks don't seem to get around to it, I am saddened wondering if my instructions were not clear enough or simply if some participants are so engaged in the moment that they do not want to stop their conversations - they just want to go deeper. I have learned to accept what is and yet, it still gnaws at me feeling that a "little nudge" could perhaps do so much without disrupting the self-organizing essence of Open Space. I agree with Michael Pannwitz that the Marketplace for me is a sacred space that I would never touch. I wonder though if with the right labeling, initiators (or note taker participants) themselves could not transport their topic sheets to the areas you describe. For example, Summary Reports in Process and then simply Summary Reports Completed. Perhaps this "visual nudge" with some brief words of explanation could do a lot. Change, execution and action can be so wonderful when you're doing what you love and are passionate about. What if this too was part of the "invitation" and our "heartfelt intention" ? Others may have strong views to the contrary on this but Harold I'm with you that maybe a visual cue like this could do a lot! Suzanne From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:13 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: A "kanban" board to help get session reports I'm writing from San Francisco after the first day of Agile Open Northern California. In case you aren't familiar with Agile - it is a revolutionary and now quite popular software development philosophy that also comes with a number of practices. Open Space Technology has quite a history with the Agile movement, especially for some of the earliest Agile conferences - up through today. Today I've seen one of the most effective methods ever for encouraging prompt session reports. The approach is loaned from the Japanese "Kanban" which just means visual card. Kanban is now being used in software development to help track what's planned and what's done with visual cards posted on a wall. At Agile Open NorCal - once the sessions were completed, the paper used to announce it was are removed from the agenda wall and moved to another wall where there were two slots. The first is "not done", or the sessions for which notes were not produced. Once notes were completed, the session page would be moved to the "done" slot. I was impressed how it seemed to speed up people finishing the notes - just by having quick visibility about what sessions had completed documentation, and which didn't. Any thoughts about this? It seems quite easy to do. -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
