Priorization in short time

Harrison Owen owenhh at mindspring.com
Wed Feb 26 10:58:57 PST 2003


At 07:26 PM 2/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear friends in Open Space
>I have an upcoming Open Space conference with 250 persons for a not full day
>(8.30-15.00). I am working with management to get another day further down
>the line to continue but that might not succeed. I don´t want to spend much
>time on convergence if we only get this day. The theme is to be worked out
>in a premeeting with the 20 or so managers, next week. I suspect that they
>want quite some space in the theme why I hope to get more time.
>
>I am thinking of trying to schedule two 1,15 hours timeslots and one
>one-hour timeslot for sessions. We will need an hour for lunch and I hope we
>can make the introduction and agendasetting in 45 mts. That leaves 1,15
>hours for closing. Has anyone a suggestion for some kind of priorization
>that is really fast, just to get a picture on what the hot topics are right
>now. Sometimes, in one day OST´s I do this only out of the names of the
>topics, without giving the chance to read. I would like to give everyone a
>chance to talk in the closing so how will we manage that?

Everybody talking with 250 people will be a bit much -- 3-4 days? I usually 
say something like -- we have 30 min -- who cares to comment? And that 
seems to do it. As for prioritization (at least a rough one) sticky dots 
will do it.

ho


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