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

[Michael Herman]

Definitely a different experience leading a track rather than a whole
event. More work and less fun facilitating, but neither of those are deal
killers for me. Usually.

Another view that I encourage as strongly as I can get away with, in
parallel or serial designs, is one that understands open space as the
largest "container" that might have various "other things" inside of it.
Open space can hold other more formal pieces easier than it can be squeezed
into formal boxes.

Taking/testing this view sometimes let's otherwise rigid structures, rigid
only for lack of options or imagination, start to dissolve. Keynotes are
sometimes like that, and briefings of various sorts. And if I start with
the radical view that it all could happen in OS, then its sometimes easier
to end up finishing the morning of keynotes with an OS briefing/invitation
moment, like we did at agile/XP and made that parallel track workable.

In my experience, if they will/can start to see all of it as open space,
more and more open becomes possible.




On Friday, April 25, 2014, Gray Miller <graydancer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to echo that. The problem, cynically speaking, is that people are
> lazy. Given a choice between "make your own" or "let us make it for you,"
> the majority will go with the safe and "normal" agenda. Mind you, the few
> that choose the OS have an incredible time-but others see it as
> uncertainty, or work (because it is).
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> I have done a few OS before or after a "regular" con, and you still can't
> win-people will complain that it was either a waste of time or that it
> should have been the whole time. But I won't do a concurrent OS with a
> regular scheduled conference. It's just not worth it for me.
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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:57 AM -0700, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net
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>  Dan – Bearing some responsibility for The User’s Guide” I can say,
> without equivocation, that it ain’t a cook book. Not even close. But it
> did/does represent the experience of the time as filtered through my ears
> and eyeballs. That said, it must also be stated that our experience is
> continuing and changing (we are learning something) and my ears and
> eyeballs are anything but perfect.
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> So would I run parallel tracks? Probably not simply because every time I
> have tried the experience was less than the best. I thought. The Open Space
> part was sort of diffuse, and clearly lacked the punch so often
> experienced. And I thought the rest of the program (other tracks) suffered
> as well. People treated formal lectures/presentations like Open Space which
> was disconcerting, to say the least, for some of the presenters. Actually,
> I rather enjoyed what happened, but then a formal lecture/presentation has
> to be really, really good before it equals a regular Open Space in terms of
> impact, communication and Zip – My experience.  So for the benefit of the
> sponsor I always suggest that when you do Open Space – Do it. If you want
> something else – Do That. But don’t mix them up. Confusing, at least for me.
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