New article on Benefits of Open Space for Tech Conferences

[Deborah Hartmann]

Hello!  Here is an article I've been working on, drawn from an 
experience at XPday Montreal 2006, which I facilitated in both English 
and French with much help from Diane Guibeault of Ottawa (thanks, 
Diane), who helped me with the french script.  I wrote this to add my 
two cents to a conversation in our community about how to respond to 
larger events which are no longer as satisfying for some senior members 
of the community, who end up spending much time teaching and not enough 
as as they'd like simply learning from their peers.


  Experience Report: Beginners and Experts All Benefit in Open Space
  <http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-space-beginners-experts>

http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-space-beginners-experts

"/Agile conferences are receiving an influx of novice teams and managers 
- the Agile 2006 conference saw an increase of 50% from the prior year.  
Perhaps out of concern over conference size, some suggest that new 
conferences should be organized for these beginners, but this strikes me 
as missing the point - when we self organize, diversity is an asset.  I 
collected these observations about an interesting session at one Open 
Space event in order to share a concrete example of how mixing up 
expertise levels creates a valuable conference experience for all./"

Perhaps it will be of use to someone :-)
deb

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Deborah Hartmann
Agile Process Coach
www.vitalbrew.com

"Learn the principle, 
abide by the principle, and 
dissolve the principle." 
-- Bruce Lee

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