Riding the Waves

[Ilja Preuß]

Hi Harrison,

for what it's worth, I got your two previous messages, too.

Anyway, regarding your question: I am working in a small software
company (~30 employees), and though we are far from being an "open
space company", we already have several rituals that involve "coming
to a circle". There is the daily standup of our team in the morning,
where we organize our day. There is the daily "Scrum of Scrums", where
representatives from every team meat to keep each other informed.
There is a weekly get-to-gether for the whole company, where everyone
is invited to present news, ask questions or invite to events. And a
weekly meeting for our technical people to invite to and report back
from technical discussions. All of these, interestingly, happen with
everyone standing in (more or less) a circle.

And then there are team retrospectives, where the preferred seating
arrangement also is a (semi-) circle.

Just a small report from the trenches... :)

Regards, Ilja

2010/1/9 Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>:
> For some reason or another, my stuff just doesn't get through. Is there a
> message here??? Oh well, couldn't happen to a better person. So I'll try one
> more time - -
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> If it all begins with Invitation -- What's next? If our experience in Open
> Space is any guide, the next step would be come to a circle.  All well and
> good if you doing an event, but what would it mean to "come to a circle" out
> on a construction site, in the office, down on the farm, out on a battle
> field? All those places in our self organizing world where the surf is
> really up…
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