A short introduction

Harrison Owen hhowen at comcast.net
Thu Mar 17 05:00:35 PST 2005


Gerard Wrote: "you can imagine what can happen when they're all in the room
- and it did."

Yes! I have seen exactly the same thing happening. The results are typically
fast, furious, and mind-blowing -- to say nothing of productive and
profitable. I simply have a hard time understanding why this doesn't become
standard practice -- at least with the folks who have had the experience.
The old linear sequence is blown apart and the whole thing goes massively
parallel. Add some customers etc and the results would be totally
revolutionary. But the linear process remains. Some people will do anything
to maintain control and avoid success.

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerard
Muller
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:45 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: A short introduction

Hello all,

This conversation reminds me of events I have facilitated for software
companies, specificallly one where
the issue was "How can we improve the development process for version
2.0"

Even though only there were no clients, no suppliers, no vendors, or
any of all the others who might have
created a more diverse knowledge base, there was so much diversity
internally that there was more than enough
headway to be made.

Tradition was that  the specifications team passes on their conclusions
to the design team
who then passes their product on to the programming team who then hands
it to the testing team who then ......

you can imagine what can happen when they're all in the room - and it
did.

Greetings from a wintery Denmark,




Gerard Muller







On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Lucas Gonzalez wrote:

> --- Tom Tuddenham <ferrisoxide at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> open space offers the
>> possibility of accelerating the commercial development of open source
>> projects and that a company focussing on open source solutions could
>> manage its day-to-day operations and decision making using open space
>> techniques.
>> if there are other open source developers out
>> there in the community who share similar sentiments I would welcome
>> an opportunity to take these ideas further.
>
> Hi
>
> I'm not a software developer or an open-space practitioner (yet), but
> I'm interested.
>
> Are you suggesting that perhaps IBM could "bring the system in one
> room" so they may develop a better (open source) hospital information
> system?  Would that work?
>
> Lucas
>
>
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