Open Space and Quality Assurance

[Chris Corrigan]

That's it Avner...it's about questioning the assumptions in the plan.  Your
OST may run counter to everything that is the plan.

And big hugs out to you Avner.

Chris

On 8/7/06, avner <avnerh at zahav.net.il> wrote:
>
>  Dear Chris and Eva, As we all know QA purpose is to make sure that what
> is done suits what we plan. The assumption is that what we plan is the best
> choice. But what happens when the image that we have, translated to a
> plan is misleading? What happens when we do not know in advance what`s best?
>
> Avner Haramati
> troubled and very sad Jerusalem
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se>
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Sent:* Monday, August 07, 2006 10:40 PM
> *Subject:* SV: Re: Open Space and Quality Assurance
>
>  Hi Chris and thank you for quick answer!!!
>
> I agree with you that Open Space go beyond quality assurance and of course
> QA is about control… J
>
> And we cannot control the process or the outcome – that we know – but I am
> more thinking about the format. The way we are working with "it".
> Preparation meeting, the OS meeting itself, and follow up meeting. And I was
> thinking about that exactly this – our world wide community with over 500
> persons developing, sharing, "arguing" about how to do, and why to do, and
> the best way to do etc etc – couldn't we call that QA??
>
> Cheers from a late evening in the west coast of Sweden (where we for the
> moment are hosts for the European Championship in athletics!)
>
> :o)
>
> Eva
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> Bästa hälsningar
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> Eva P Svensson
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>
> I think Open Space transcends quality assurance.  It's a tricky thing, but
> to my mind quality assurance is about control.  How can you assure quality
> when whatever happens is the only thing that could have?
>
> You might instead write in the proposal about both/and.  In your project
> you might use quality assurance processes to do some things, but then use
> Open Space to ask the question, what else can we be?  What are the areas of
> qualities that we don;t know about?  How much better can we get?
>
> And the answers to these questions are "we don't know."  Your proposal
> then becomes about why this is a GOOD thing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> On 8/7/06, *Eva P Svensson* <eva at epshumaninvest.se> wrote:
>
> Hello out there!
>
> I am in the middle of writing a public procurement and will of course
> suggest Open Space as one way of working. One of the questions they are
> asking is about quality assurance – In my mind for example the way we
> operate here on this list, on our OS on OS's is really quality assurance!
>
> What do you think, how would you express a question about how we work with
> quality assurance for open space??
>
> Looking forward to hear your thoughts!
>
> All the best
>
> :o)
>
> Eva
>
>
>
> Bästa hälsningar
>
>
>
> Eva P Svensson
>
> EPS Human Invest AB
>
> *"Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående
> företag och organisationer!"*
>
> Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34  ONSALA
>
> Tfn: 0300-615 05 , Mobil: 0706-89 85 50
>
> eva at epshumaninvest.se,  www.epshumaninvest.se
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