[OSList] Agile and Open Space

[Diana Larsen]

Hi HO, 

I opened the space at Agile Open Northwest last week. It was our 7th annual convening in open space and quite wonderful. We alternate locations every year between Portland and Seattle. If anyone on this list is a twitter user, you can check the hashtag for #AONW and find a running commentary as the conference unfolded. 

We tried a few experiments this year. 
- We had a roving graphic recorder who sat in on some sessions and created wonderful images of the discussions which we posted near the Newsroom area. You can see them on the website that Harrison referenced. 
- Because of wall constraints, we had the opening circle in one large room and the marketplace wall nearby in another large room - where all the food, newsroom and other gatherings were set up. It had a better wall space by far and was more centrally located to the other breakout spaces. In the past we've had a traffic jam problem as people rushed to announce their sessions, then get them posted on the wall, some coming back to announce additional sessions. This time, walking to another room seemed to introduce just enough slack in the queue to prevent bottlenecks and keep the announcement of sessions running quite smoothly. We might try that again. 
- For the first time we expanded from 2 days to 2.5+ days. In the opening circle we asked people to hold off posting sessions for the 3rd morning and reserve those for sessions hosted by people who were inspired to "action after the conference"  in the earlier sessions. Some "action" sessions were posted on the 2nd day and more on the 3rd morning. Everyone had plenty of sessions to attend throughout our time together. 
- We also let every participant know that we would hold a retrospective (evaluation/continuous improvement meeting) on the conference in the afternoon after we closed the Agile Open space and that all were invited to participate. We wanted to expand the perspectives beyond just the organizers and volunteers who've done it in past years. More than 20 of the participants stayed for it, so along with the usual suspects we had ~35 people looking for ways to make the conference even better next year. More experiments to try! 

Harold attended Agile Open Northwest too! :) Always a bonus. 

Diana


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On Feb 11, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Google delivered, as I suspected. Lots of Agile / Open Space. Here’s one:
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> http://www.agileopennorthwest.com/2013/openspace.php
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> Harrison
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Harrison Owen
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:43 PM
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> I don’t know anything written but I do know that the Agile Community here in the USA has used Open Space a lot for their gatherings. I am not sure that amounts to “mingling” – but for sure Agile folks mingle in Open Space, just like anyone else. I suspect if you Google a bit you should be able to come up with all sorts of references. Last Fall there was a whole sequence of gatherings and I participated in a number.
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> Harrison
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> Harrison Owen
> 7808 River Falls Dr.
> Potomac, MD 20854
> USA
>  
> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)
> Camden, Maine 04843
>  
> Phone 301-365-2093
> (summer)  207-763-3261
>  
> www.openspaceworld.com
> www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Vliex, Carla (cvl)
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:53 PM
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> Subject: [OSList] Agile and Open Space
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> Hi there
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> It wasn’t for long I was active on this list. But I always kept my eyes on the list.
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> Does anyone if there is anything written on similarities- differences between Open Space and Agile? We are trying with a  client in IT to mingle Open Space and Agile.
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> Ciao Carla
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> Met vriendelijke groet,
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