Unforeseen problem of scale

[Harrison Owen]

At 07:20 PM 2/13/2003 +1100, John Moore wrote:
>Helen Woods and I were retained to demonstrate OS as the final half day
>session of a conference next week. We expected about 50 to be there and
>had a pretty good handle on what to do!
>
>Suddenly we have been told that 247 people have elected fro the session!
>
>Anyone got any brilliant ideas apart from ours which is to do the set
>up as one group and then split into 3 separate demos each with a
>facilitator. Sub-groups of 70+ will do one round of OS and report on 2
>key points from each discussion group. These will be collated into the
>'top 10' from the sub group.

I guess I don't understand why you don't stay as one group. You will loose
time in splitting up the group, and 247 is certainly not a large number to
work with in Open space.

Harrison


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