Lari, You inspire with this story. Please keep sharing how this larger experiment grows as the smaller ones take place around Lean startup and scrum. It sure sounds to me like you did 'know' about open space agility !! You were creating the same events.. So exciting!
Andrea Andrea Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 14, 2015, at 2:42 AM, Lari Karreinen via OSList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Kim and Daniel > > This is very interesting because I've started a process with Finnish Red > Cross Youth to learn agile way and Lean for startups -method. We've used open > space to inspire about 100 youth volunteers to do experiments within a month. > Their energy was overwhelming and the experiments they have planned are now > implemented. > > This has also challenged the way of working in the Finnish Red Cross, as big > NGOs tend to emphasize planning over doing. Now they are doing the > experiments within 2 month cycles. > > The hierarchical structure of the organisation challenges us, because paid > staff is in headquarters but the volunteers are scattered all over the > country in several disctricts and branches. For example we don't have a > possibility to gather volunteers to meet live for a retrospective. Now > writing this I think arranging an online open space could be one solution. > > It has been demanding to apply SCRUM framework to an NGO. They are such a > different worlds. We are learning a lot. And now learning faster. > > I wish I had known OpenSpace Agility beforehand, but now I'll have to catchup > with it. Great, thanks! > > -- > Lari Karreinen > Solution focused facilitator, coach, volunteer leadership trainer > [email protected] > GSM +358 400 487 642 > skype: lari_karreinen > www.karreinen.org > www.facebook.com/karreinen.org > vat number 2569322-9 > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
