[OSList] "Parallel" Open Space at XP2014 Rome?

[Michael Herman]

we ran traditional conference, complete with juried papers and such,
parallel with open space AND parallel with birds of a feather AND parallel
with working sessions where folks were taking turns writing code for a few
hours at a time, on a real (pro bono) project that delivered working
software at the end of the week, at agile/xp universe 2003(?).

a morning of plenary keynotes finished with a slightly abbreviated opening
explanation to the whole group, then some came to the opening and others
went elsewhere.  it was kind of chaotic, but at least everyone got to hear
the explanation of what was happening in the OS track, and once they knew,
then the bulletin board made complete sense to everyone and it just sort of
worked.

the way we understood it and reasoned that it would work is that the birds
of a feather sessions were the topics that many people knew about and so
anyone could ask a question or post an issue and many people could respond
and teach something about it.  the juried papers were on those issues where
a few people had figured out something, studied it deeply, and could now
teach.  and the open space was for all of the issues around "the future of
software developement" that really nobody could "know" the answers to yet,
but that some people could get together and explore.

we thought some of the open space issues might come back in a year or two
as juried papers.  not sure if that actually happened, but that was the
reasoning at the time.  eight years later i heard from agile board members
that what we'd done had been important, so that's my best measure.

m


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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:25 PM, alan at alanhalford.com.au <
alan at alanhalford.com.au> wrote:

> On the surface looks dodgy!
> But, who knows the context? Personally i think it fits with the principles
> and the Law of two feet, in particular 'whatever happens is the only thing
> that could have'
> Most importantly the space will be open!!
> Ciao Bello
> Alan
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> On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:12 am, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:
>
> Open Space includes a theme, and proceedings. It also asks that no other
> events be going on at the same time.
>
>
> That’s why the XP2014 event in Rome gives me pause. Someone here
> mentioned that this event is offering a “parallel Open Space”. Wow. Is that
> right?
>
>
> The last time I checked, the Open Space User’s Guide warned against doing
> this. It warns against running anything else *while the Open Space event
> is going on*. And that’s what makes me wonder about the so-called XP2014
> “parallel Open Space” event.
>
>
>
> To investigate you can examine this link, which shows the schedule:
>
> http://www.xp2014.org/program/
>
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