Hi Rosa,
Your article on Dynamic Facilitation is extremely interesting!
You can pick up the entire OAA idea via this post and related links:
http://newtechusa.net/agile/executives-cant-make-agile-work/
...you seem to really understand the concepts. So here is more: I'm
drawing from experiences and research into Tavistock/Group Relations
(I've attended several of these "conferences") and also drawing heavily
from the work of Arnold Van Gennep and Victor Turner.
Here's where I ended up:
http://newtechusa.net/open-agile-adoption/open-agile-adoption-components/
I reject the idea that we can simply make/force/coerce/mandate that
people "do Agile practices" and after a while "everything will be OK."
That's only true if there is explicit consent. Which is seldom the case,
and leads to unease, disengagement, and the triggering and contagion of
unconscious impulses across the entire organization. And more than a
little resentment!
Thanks for your kind feedback. I plan to circle back and inspect your
article very carefully.
Best Regards,
Daniel
On 3/30/14 1:27 PM, Rosa Zubizarreta wrote:
Hi Dan,
Really appreciating what you've created here, with the "Open Agile
Adoption" model...
wish I could be there! And, I'm very much looking forward to reading
your book,
which I've just ordered.
Would love to explore with you sometime,
what Dynamic Facilitation
<https://d3gqux9sl0z33u.cloudfront.net/AA/AL/diapraxis/downloads/271633/ODP-V45_No1-Zubizarreta.pdf> can
offer to the agile manager's skill set.
Oh and, much appreciate the Tavi perspective on OS, as well!
all best wishes,
Rosa
/Rosa Zubizarreta/
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/Celebrating my new book, "From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A
user's guide to Dynamic Facilitation"
<http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Creative-Collaboration-Dynamic-Facilitation/dp/1626526117/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394491921&sr=1-1&keywords=from+conflict+to+creative+collaboration>/
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Mezick <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm offering a 2-day course in the Open Agile Adoption method,
April 23-24. Many of you are already attending, and I think it is
probably a good idea for me to mention the class here, more
broadly, for those who are unaware of it.
You can see it here: Agile Success with Open Agile Adoption
http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-success-with-open-agile-adoption/
The quick summary of the whole idea is here:
http://newtechusa.net/agile/open-agile-adoption-explained/
There is a very interesting guest speaker planned for both days of
this learning event. (hint hint)
The basic premise of Open Agile Adoption (OAA) is that mandates
are fundamentally coercive, and lead to fear, which is death to
organizational learning and the capacity to adapt.
OAA swaps that nasty mandate of Agile practices with an invitation
to experiment with them, in service to higher levels of engagement
and far better results.
OAA uses Open Space, leadership storytelling, game mechanics and
experience design to help encourage a rapid and lasting Agile
adoption, the kind that leads to high performance. It focuses on
people before practices, and creates space for experimentation. It
uses patterns from cultural anthropology to reduce fear while
increasing feelings of control, belonging and purpose. It works.
To date, Open Space has been used mostly in public Agile conferences.
Little if any focus in the Agile community has been placed on the
amazing power of Open Space to help organizations transform. This
is what Open Agile Adoption is all about.
If you are an Agile coach or Open Space facilitator looking to get
better Agile adoption results, I hope you might consider attending
the course we have arranged for you, in April, in DC.
This is an important course.
You can learn more and register here:
http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-success-with-open-agile-adoption/
Kind Regards,
Daniel
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