[OSList] Dan Mezick - Keynote Speaker at Scrum Alliance Paris

[Harold Shinsato]

Dear Suzanne,

Thanks for the account! I just downloaded the Spirit PDF. I thought I 
had read it already - but it's different than the book "The Power of 
Spirit". I've only read a few pages - powerful! I prefer paper - so I 
also found a signed copy on Amazon.

Thank you so much for understanding the power of what these (sometimes 
annoying and anti-social) propeller heads, nerds, and geeks have been up 
to - and how much the really good ones have been seeing that it's all 
really a *PEOPLE* issue.

And now - someone like Dan - get's that it's even more - a *SPIRIT* 
issue! What Harrison has been trying to say for decades.

I invite and encourage more folks to sign up for Dan's Agile primer on 
October 14. This stuff only started in the software world. Yes, the 
roots go back to Toyota, W. Edwards Deming, and probably Adam and 
prehistoric shamans if you swim up that river far enough! But it's going 
everywhere - and it's going to need (our) SPIRIT.

Thank you, Suzanne, for facilitating several awesome conversations in 
the Agile/Scrum/Lean world - like Scrum Beyond Software, Agile Day NYC, 
a morning Open Jam mini Open Space at Agile 2010 - and more I wasn't 
able to attend. Thank you thank you for being a wonderful supporter of 
helping these two communities benefit from each other!

     Blessings!
     Harold

On 9/24/13 6:24 AM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
> Riveting, humorous and serious, and super invitational with a powerful 
> message behind it!  Dan Mezick did a super job presenting his Open 
> Agile Adoption approach.  As it is with Open Space, you can never 
> truly understand Open Space hearing it described. I'd say the same 
> applies to Dan; you can never truly get Dan with his passion, 
> conviction and depth of experience working with teams, in Scrum with 
> Open Space until he engages you in person. His recent written posts 
> could not fully capture what he shared today. The in-person version 
> with his story telling and logic was very engaging.  I know his 
> presentation will be available to all soon.  I would not even want to 
> try to capture the essence of it here.  What I can say he that he made 
> a compelling case for a heartfelt and smart collaboration between 
> Scrum and Open Space -- two communities that share many values and who 
> are committed to assuring high performance and joy in the doing. 
> Jasmina Nikolic and I were both very ignited as were the 400 folks who 
> were here.
>
> Bravo Dan... and I wish we had google analytics attached to the 
> download of Harrison's Spirit book cause I'm thinking that there will 
> be a slew of them based on Dan's enthusiastic nudging that it is a 
> book to read.  And yes Harrison, he even included your disclaimer... 
> that it's a tough read!
>
> Tomorrow, Adam Weisbart facilitates the full day of Open Space.  The 
> Theme is "Prioritize Passion". The invitation captures the spirit and 
> essence of what this conference has been all about and I just can't 
> wait to participate. I know that are equally excited about tomorrow.
>
> Warm regards,
> Suzanne   (and Jasmina...but I don't quite know where she is right now).
>
> P.S.  Jasmina Nikolic and her colleague Karl Royle also did a great 
> job yesterday presenting their topic Scrum in Schools where they too 
> discussed the value of Open Space to open space...!
>
> -- 
> Suzanne Daigle
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>


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