Dan - Bearing some responsibility for The User's Guide" I can say, without equivocation, that it ain't a cook book. Not even close. But it did/does represent the experience of the time as filtered through my ears and eyeballs. That said, it must also be stated that our experience is continuing and changing (we are learning something) and my ears and eyeballs are anything but perfect.
So would I run parallel tracks? Probably not simply because every time I have tried the experience was less than the best. I thought. The Open Space part was sort of diffuse, and clearly lacked the punch so often experienced. And I thought the rest of the program (other tracks) suffered as well. People treated formal lectures/presentations like Open Space which was disconcerting, to say the least, for some of the presenters. Actually, I rather enjoyed what happened, but then a formal lecture/presentation has to be really, really good before it equals a regular Open Space in terms of impact, communication and Zip - My experience. So for the benefit of the sponsor I always suggest that when you do Open Space - Do it. If you want something else - Do That. But don't mix them up. Confusing, at least for me. 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Mezick Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSList] "Parallel" Open Space at XP2014 Rome? Open Space includes a theme, and proceedings. It also asks that no other events be going on at the same time. That's why the XP2014 event in Rome gives me pause. Someone here mentioned that this event is offering a "parallel Open Space". Wow. Is that right? The last time I checked, the Open Space User's Guide warned against doing this. It warns against running anything else while the Open Space event is going on. And that's what makes me wonder about the so-called XP2014 "parallel Open Space" event. To investigate you can examine this link, which shows the schedule: http://www.xp2014.org/program/ -- Daniel Mezick, President New Technology Solutions Inc. (203) 915 7248 (cell) Bio <http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/> . <http://newtechusa.net/blog/> Blog. <http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/> Twitter. Examine my new book: <http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/> The Culture Game : Tools for the Agile Manager. Explore Agile Team <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/> Training and <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/> Coaching. Explore the <http://newtechusa.net/user-groups/ma/> Agile Boston Community.
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