OS in the Techie community

Thu May 6 08:54:06 PDT 2010

Ilja -- Just a point of clarification. The title of my book is "Wave Rider"
-- and a basic point is the one that your participant made. There is no need
to create waves. We have plenty. The trick and the fun comes as we learn how
to ride them well. The truth of the matter is that we are all Wave Riders by
birth. Comes with the territory, but for some it is purely a "white knuckle"
experience, others never want to leave the beach, but sooner or later that
wave will come. But when you catch the wave it can be an experience of pure
joy, albeit with many surprises.

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ilja Preuß
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:29 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: OS in the Techie community

And it's not just the Scrum community. As some of you may know, it's
actually part of a wider community, the Agile Software Development
community, which was born by the declaration of the Agile Manifesto:
http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ Open space is big and rising in the
Agile Community - a lot of pure OS conference, and few conferences
that don't at least include a day of OS or similar.

Just last weekend we conducted the German Agile Coach Camp, one event
in a serious of international open spaces for coaches from the Agile
community. The theme was actually heavily influenced by Harrison's
latest book: "Wavemaking - gently creating radical change" (a
participant pointed out that there actually isn't any need for making
any waves, you can just work with the waves that are already there. :)
I find the feedback we get to be quite moving:
http://accde10.pbworks.com/My-changes-gently-created-by--ACC-DE-10

A similar (already more established) series of open spaces in our
community, with a slightly different focus, is called Agile Open:
http://www.agileopen.net/

We live in exciting times! :)

Cheers, Ilja

2010/5/6 Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>:
> I wish so much I could have been there - I just saw some presentations
from
> the event - it seems Harrison Owen is getting referenced and quoted quite
a
> bit in the scrum community.
>
> And so is Suzanne!
>
>
http://agileanarchy.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/an-open-space-endorsement-of-sc
rum
>
> More techie info - the third annual Missoula BarCamp on May 1 used OST and
> was a smashing success - http://missoulabarcamp.org. We more than doubled
> our attendance again and the closing comments were glowing and folks want
to
> do a state wide event. There's a lot of Open Space happening in the tech
> world.
>
>     Harold
> --
> Harold Shinsato
> harold at shinsato.com
> http://shinsato.com
> twitter: @hajush
> On 5/5/10 9:26 PM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
>
> Steve, I can understand you being jealous!  Would you believe that I
> was there and it was every bit as wonderful as anyone could imagine!
>
> Knowing that I lived so close to Orlando, "ho" had sent me a note
> thinking I might be interested to tag along. Of course I jumped at the
> chance.
>
> There were lots of "be prepared to be surprised" moments over those 2
> to 3 days. The first surprise was this wonderful international
> organization called Scrum Alliance. Techies yes, but what I saw and
> felt throughout this conference is a group whose approach and thinking
> went so far beyond the scope of systems application, system
> implementation and project management that is typical of many who work
> in the technology field. These were people modeling “the new
> leadership” – folks with lots of conviction and passion in their gut,
> who understand in a very “holistic” way that human dynamics are an
> integral part of what creates success.
>
> Many knew of Open Space, had used Open Space and were totally in sync
> with it. Many had read Harrison's books and even tried their hand at
> OS. Others knew nothing about it but seemed no less excited. It was so
> much fun hearing them roar with laughter and nodding their heads in
> agreement as Harrison spoke as their luncheon speaker on the day
> before the actual Open Space. The Wave Riding themes resonated with
> them in spades!
>
> The night before the OS event, a slew of Scrum volunteers, of which I
> was one, were there getting posters ready, drawing the theme banner,
> etc.  Enthusiasm was bubbling over already.  The next day, the room
> was packed with over 200 or close to 300? people in the room. No
> contest, Mickey Mouse lost that day. People knew where they wanted to
> be...in Open Space with Harrison and with their worldwide Scrum
> colleagues.
>
> Listening to Harrison do his thing as the facilitator and
> watching/feeling the room come alive was awesome. In no time, people
> were lined up announcing their topics--probably close to 75 topics in
> all leading to 30 to 35 meaty reports by the end of the day.
>
> You could feel the energy, it was palpable. I took a lot of photos;
> others did too. One photo in particular stuck in my mind.  It was
> taken early in the morning, an empty room with  everything ready from
> posters on the wall, to the hundreds of chairs in concentric circles,
> big white sheets and markers in the center and would you believe
> dozens and dozens of butterfly images on the wall-to-wall carpet
> floor.
>
> So Steve, if I've waited until now to share this, it's probably
> because it was one of those rare times when I felt a bit at a loss for
> the right words that would transport all of you to that very special
> time and place that Harrison alluded to in his posting just now.
>
> Perhaps I guessed also that people might be a bit jealous (as I would
> have been wishing like you, that I could have been there), so now I
> offer and share a few images which I hope will make it through our
> "virtual OS list" and won't get rejected.
>
> And in closing, I would like to say to Lisa that if Open Space is the
> olive in the martini of life, I'd say the white onions, which I like
> in a martini, are the Surprises that cross our path along the way.
> This certainly was one of those life surprises.
> Suzanne
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> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Steven List <doc at anotherthought.com>
wrote:
>
>
> I heard about this from some of my friends in the Scrum community.  I was
SO
> jealous of them!
> On the other hand, one of them was at the event I facilitated in Boston
last
> week, and he came up to me and said...
> "I was at the Scrum gathering, and saw Harrison Owen facilitate."
> [I'm thinking "uh-oh - here it comes"]
> "And he was great.  And even having seen him, I can say that you're very
> good."
> Whew. :)
> To be compared to you in any way, Harrison, was an amazing thing.
> I guess I'll have to start drinking martinis, eh? ;)
> ...Doc
> On May 5, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:
>
> A while back I did an Open space for the SCRUM people – techies all. And
if
> you are interested in what they thought, check
> out http://www.agilitrix.com/2010/03/harrison-owen-rules-open-space/
>
> ho
>
>
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