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

[Chris Corrigan]

In a complex world there are never "nevers". Who knows how it will work or not, whether it is correct or not or whether it is just what is needed. 

More important than guessing about how it will go will be learning about how it went. Perhaps we will hear the story.

Chris

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> On Apr 24, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:
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> 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(?).  
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> 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.  
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> 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.  
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> 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.  
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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
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>>> On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:12 am, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:
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>>> Open Space includes a theme, and proceedings. It also asks that no other events be going on at the same time. 
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>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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>>> To investigate you can examine this link, which shows the schedule:
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>>> http://www.xp2014.org/program/
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