[OSList] The Open Agile Adoption story
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 09:34:16 PDT 2013
Dear Artur,
tell me more about "profound changes"...
A couple of years ago, I had the privilege to facilitate an OST event
for an agile consulting company. They schemed on how to transform their
organisational life and process and structure in such a way that nobody
would have to quit the company again on account of an employee becoming
parent. Since they managed to invite and have attend partners and
children (including ex-employees) I knew the whole thing would be a
grand success. Its always been that way when I saw children attending an
OST event.
I have no idea what happened to their burning business issue. They never
told me which is probably a sign for them doing business as usual,
profoundly.
Wish you all the best in your journey... ever thought of beginning it
with an OST event?
Cheers
mmp
On 20.08.2013 16:21, Artur Silva wrote:
> Dan:
>
> Congratulations for your fine work promoting OST in the Agile Community
> and enlarging the scope of agile not only to "agile software
> development" but to "Agile (and spirited) companies".
>
> And, yes, Christine, this is a small world.
>
> I can remember some breakout sessions on "Agile and/or Scrum and OST" at
> last WOSonOS's, including one or two convened by Harold Shinsato in
> London-2012, which I have attended. So the terrain was already prepared
> for Dan's initiative.
>
> In what concerns Portugal, in my past life, I presented a paper, in a
> Portuguese Information Systems Conference, in 1980, where I created a
> "recursive life cycle", that was later considered, in Portugal, a
> precursor of agile methodologies.
>
> But the Agile movement is not yet very strong in Portugal even if there
> is a community that met often (http://agilept.org/) and a page at
> Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/agilept), with only 407 members.
> Generally Portuguese Universities only talk about agile marginally in
> the "Software Engineering" subject.
>
> In what concerns the future, I am preparing to stay only part time at
> the University, since the 14th September 2013, and be back to the
> consulting activities where OST will be an important part, but mainly as
> a facilitator for "profound changes" and collaborative learning
> (Communities of Practice, Organizational learning, Innovation,
> Resilience, etc.).
>
> Anyhow I will not probably be able to go to Paris in September, so
> please keep me both posted on the outcomes of the Paris meeting.
> Looking forward to work more closed with both of you (and some others
> out there) in the near future.
>
> Regards
>
> Artur
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* christine koehler <chris.alice.koehler at gmail.com>
> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:07 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] The Open Agile Adoption story
>
> Hi Dan
>
> Congratulations for your lovely buddha grand-daughter !
>
> Thank you for your story. As a French Open Space practitioner who heard
> for so many years that French and Open Space were not made to get
> together, I am always happy to hear exactely opposite stories ;-)
> Today as Michael Pannwitz says, we are the most fast growing community
> in the Open Space World.
>
> Now I can tell you the story of Open Space and Agile in France.. Indeed
> it's an old love story :
>
> In 2004, a small and diverse group of people launched the Open Space
> Institute of France. One of them was an engineer, and had already
> adopted agility : Raphael Pierquin. So, the first Open Space event in
> the IT community in France was held for Orange Business Services, a
> subsidiary of our historical telecommunication corporation France
> Telecom, after Raphael introduced there Agility. This happened in 2005
> I think.
> Since that he organizes each year the Agile Open gathering using Open
> Space and the software company he co-founded is run with Open Space
> principles.
> When in 2009 I co-organized with Luc Bizeul the first European Open
> Space on Open Space, half of the participants were agile folks.
>
> My guess is that this explains why the core members of the French Agile
> community are quite familiar with Open Space and that you got retweeted
> from over here :-).
>
> These days as I personaly want to understand more about agility, but if
> possible concretely and not from books (and also not from software
> development as I am not a tech lady), I joined a group of a dozen Agile
> people who are wondering why agile principles don't go further and
> transform organizations : they/we form the Stoos movement. One of the
> organizer of your French training on OpenAgileAdoption after the Scrum
> gathering in Paris is Oana Juncu, who belongs to this group. We live in
> a small world.
>
> I'd be happy to connect the Agile/Scrum/OpenSpace communities from
> France and abroad on Sunday, sept 22, just before the Scrum Gathering
> starts.
> Invitation is on its way, and it looks I need to find a bigger place
> already.. Thank you Suzanne for encouraging me to do that.
> I'll post more details soon.
>
> Hope to meet you there
>
> Christine
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net
> <mailto:dan at newtechusa.net>> wrote:
>
> Good morning OST-List!____
> __ __
> I am Daniel Mezick, probably someone you never heard of.
>
> I’m an executive & Agile coach that seeks (and occasionally obtains)
> work in that section of the USA between NYC and Boston. I live in
> CT. I have a story to tell you…and an invitation…
>
> Open and Agile
> ____
> __ __
> …about 4 years ago I start experimenting with Open Space, using it
> inside public www.AgileBoston.org <http://www.agileboston.org/>
> conference events. I study OST more. In 2010 we at Agile Boston
> innovate by getting the 80-page proceeding from a large public OST
> event rendered to a PDF and shipped to all participants in less than
> 24 hours. (We employ a rapid transcription service to render the
> per-session outputs to text and images, then create a WORD doc and
> PDF.)____
> __ __
> I actually did not know what the hell I was doing. I just knew it
> was a generally good idea to socialize Open Space in Boston. ____
> __ __
> Little do I know…____
> __ __
> In late 2010, by Googling around I discover the free-download PDF of
> the SPIRIT book by HO. Reading that changes everything for me. I
> realize that OST is really about development and transformation in
> organizations, NOT simply for public conferences and general
> education. (This is how the “Agile community” currently uses Open
> Space.)____
> __ __
> As a consultant to organizations, I realize that the SPIRIT book for
> some reason is completely overlooked by the Agile community, and
> that this book had the seeds of success in it. The “secret sauce”. I
> begin experimenting with bringing Open Space meetings into my Agile
> coaching engagements. The basic hypothesis is that the introduction
> of change (Agile in this case) creates alarming levels of anxiety
> and worry. And, that Open Space might actually help reduce worry and
> fear.____
> __ __
> From late 2010 to the present day, I begin experimenting with using
> Open Space in service to rapid and lasting Agile adoptions. By
> diving into this work with willing clients, I begin to realize the
> power of Open Space… with them. We find that we can reduce the
> anxiety of change via the power and mystery of “invitation.” I begin
> to study and build upon work from Ed Seykota (“testing for
> willingness”), Michael Herman (“invitation”), Harrison Owen (the
> SPIRIT book), others. ____
> __ __
> In 2011 I do a few more experiments and begin pulling ideas from
> cultural anthropology (Victor Turner), from positive psychology
> (Tony Hsieh’s application of Martin Seligman’s work) and from the
> art and science of game design (Jane McGonigal).____
> __ __
> In 2012 I write THE CULTURE GAME (www.TheCultureGame.com
> <http://www.theculturegame.com/>), a book about how to help your
> organization get smarter. At this point I have worked with OST in
> more than a few organizations. In that book I write a chapter,
> chapter 21, and give it the title “Open The Space”. That chapter
> contains several “easter eggs” which a few astute readers find and
> begin using. I start to get emails from around the world about that
> chapter. In that chapter I reference many of Harrison’s works, I
> disclose some of the Open Agile Adoption technique.In that chapter,
> I specifically provide the link to the SPIRIT book. ____
> __ __
> By late 2012, I have confirmation of several hypotheses. The first
> is that without engagement, we have nothing. That seems very
> obvious, yet the current Agile literature has little or nothing to
> say about the role of engagement in effective Agile adoptions.
> Second is that there is no engagement without /psychological safety/
> sufficient /_to_/ engage. Third, safety (and a general sense of
> well-being) is a largely a function of creating an “inviting
> structure”. By structure I mean: a clear goal, or purpose…and a
> clear set of rules…and a great, always-on feedback system and the
> big one…”opt-in participation”. ____
> __ __
> I started ranting on Twitter and on my blog about how “mandated
> collaboration” in Agile adoptions is at best misguided. How mandated
> practices may be...harmful. Remember by this point I have my
> experience and case data. I am speaking from some experience. ____
> __ __
> At first, no one seemed to hear me. But after a while, I start
> getting ReTweets a lot. And people started talking back to me from
> around the world and there is conversation. Questions. Insights. I
> start connecting with all kinds of people around this idea. Some of
> the ReTweets are from people with French names who Tweet in French
> AND English.
>
> ____
> So here I am with this more-than-pretty-good technique that
> incorporates Open Space. And I am kind of feeding out provocative
> questions about Agile coaching, and talking a lot about invitation,
> and about the futility of mandates…I also make some radical
> assertions. This goes on for a while. ____
> __ __
> Then I got this interesting invitation. ____
> __ __
> It’s an invite to come and /keynote/ the Global ScrumGathering in
> Paris France in September of 2013. The invite is from some of those
> French people who ReTweet my Tweets. They tell me I can talk about
> absolutely anything I deem important, and ask me to “come and play”
> with them. ____
> __ __
> It takes me about 2 minutes to make up my mind. As soon as this
> happens, I know it is one of these providential-type events that
> becomes a defining moment. I gather up all my notes and start
> crafting the speech. I also immediately contact Harrison Owen, and
> bring all my work and notes up to his place in Camden to talk, and
> explain OAA with Open Space to him, and seek his guidance. That was
> back in early July. ____
> __ __
> And so: here we are. I’m going over there to Paris to talk about
> Open Agile Adoption with Open Space to six hundred Agile and Scrum
> practitioners. Many of them are coaches. The OAA technique
> incorporates OST, storytelling, play, and some ancient and proven
> tribal patterns for managing change, specifically the /rite of
> passage/ pattern. ____
> __ __
> There is a list of links at the bottom of this note, so you can get
> a sense of what I am presenting. Over July and August I am planning
> to explain the whole technique to you and everyone else, holding
> back the case data and the toolkit until 9/24 in Paris, when I
> deliver the actual speech. On that day, the toolkit and all the
> tools become free to the world via an open source license and a free
> download. The intent is to provide a body of work that others can
> immediately use and more importantly, improve upon. ____
> __ __
> We know that people are only 25 or 30 percent engaged at work. (see
> related link below.) Open Space is a profoundly useful way to double
> or even triple engagement from there. The hypothesis of Open Agile
> Adoption is that /a safe space is required for true group learning/
> to take root. And that Open Space is the primary tool for
> constructing that kind of place. ____
> __ __
> The keynote address is designed to resonate before and after the
> event. Before the event, INFOQ.com is publishing articles, videos
> and interviews on Open Agile Adoption. During the event, the speech
> will be transcribed, videotaped and recorded by the Scrum Alliance.
> After the event these Scrum Alliance artifacts will be available to
> anyone in the world via the Scrum Alliance. Also after the event I
> plan to make the case data and Open Agile Adoption toolkit free to
> the world, such that anyone with “a good head and a good heart” can
> do it and do it well. ____
> __ __
> I’m taking a page from Harrison’s playbook, and from his ethos,
> choosing to make the entire body of know-how free to the world. I’m
> hoping that Open Agile Adoption (and derivatives) become the
> standard for implementing more rapid and lasting Agile adoptions…____
> __ __
> …Not everyone is likely to be happy if this comes true. The Open
> Space element has the potential to radically reduce the amount of
> Agile coaching that is actually needed to get a rapid and lasting
> Agile adoption. That reduces billable hours!____
> __ __
> Further (and of far more interest to you) is the idea that skilled
> OST Facilitators are required to execute well with the Open Agile
> Adoption technique. This has the potential to open up new demand for
> those here with deep OST skills and experience. ____
> __ __
> There is clear potential for a certain “changing of the guard” in
> Agile adoptions worldwide. There is potential for disruption...and
> maybe a little bit of chaos. ____
> __ __
> After the Paris Scrum Gathering, I plan to offer short, plain-talk
> seminars in how to do Open Agile Adoption. I do not plan to teach
> Open Space facilitation in detail, because others in this community
> are already doing this very well, and also because there is more to
> Open Agile Adoption that just Open Space. There are elements of
> storytelling, elements of a passage rite, elements of gaming, play
> and more. I plan to teach the overall OAA technique to people who
> want to learn it. In France in September, I am teaching two ½ day
> seminars on 9/26 and 9/28 after the Scrum Gathering. When I return I
> plan to continue teaching in the United States.____
> __ __
> I am asking for help. Will you help me socialize the idea that Open
> Space is essential for creating rapid and lasting Agile adoptions? ____
> __ __
> You can help in the following ways:____
> __ __
> 0/ Be playful, and help me refine and improve Open Agile Adoption
> with others____
> __ __
> 1/ Learn more about OAA via the provided links below. Then, ask me
> questions.____
> __ __
> 2/ Tell me if you offer Open Space training courses, and send me
> your info, so I can promote your course to Open Agile Adoption
> practitioners. If you are a Facilitator for hire, I want to talk to
> you!____
> __ __
> 3/ Examine the work, and provide feedback as I disclose it over the
> next month.____
> __ __
> 4/ Sign up for the Facebook group Open Agile Adoption via this link:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/204037609756665/____
> __ __
> __ __
> 5/ Help me get in front of Agile audiences to the extent you can.
> This year I am speaking on Open Agile Adoption with Open Space at
> these events (in date order):____
> 8/7/13: session, Agile2013____
> 9/24/13: keynote, Global Scrum Gathering, Paris____
> 11/6/13: keynote, Agile Tour, Quebec City Quebec CA____
> __ __
> I hope you like this story, ____
> and I hope you want it to continue, ____
> and I hope want to help write it. ____
> __ __
> I am inviting you to come and do that. Will you join me with others
> in writing the next chapter of the Open Agile Adoption story?
>
> I hope you will consider doing exactly that. ____
> __ __
> Kind Regards,____
> Daniel Mezick____
> www.DanielMezick.com <http://www.danielmezick.com/>____
> dan at newtechusa.net <mailto:dan at newtechusa.net>____
> 203 915 7248____
> __ __
> Related Links:____
> __ __
> GALLUP Link on (dis) engagement____
> /$350 billion per year in lost productivity.____/
> http://businessjournal.gallup.com/content/247/the-high-cost-of-disengaged-employees.aspx____
> __ __
> SPIRIT Link (Harrison Owen book)____
> http://www.openspaceworld.com/Spirit.pdf____
> __ __
> Open Agile Adoption Link____
> www.OpenAgileAdoption.com <http://www.openagileadoption.com/>____
> __ __
> Mandated Collaboration Link____
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/the-recipe-for-botched-agile-adoptions/____
> __ __
> __ __
> Scrum Gathering Link (click ‘keynotes’ and then click “right arrow”…____
> http://www.scrumalliance.org/courses-events/events/global-gatherings/2013/paris-2013____
> __ __
> __ __
> Agile2013 Link____
> http://www.agilequebec.ca/nouvelles/agile-tour-2013-keynote/____
> __ __
> Agile Tour Quebec City keynote Link____
> http://www.agilequebec.ca/nouvelles/agile-tour-2013-keynote/____
> __ __
> Open Agile Adoption Group on Facebook____
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/204037609756665/
>
> ____
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