[OSList] : Open Agile Adoption course April 23-24 DC

Sun Mar 30 11:16:13 PDT 2014

Hi Rosa,

Your article on Dynamic Facilitation is extremely interesting!

You can pick up the entire OAA idea via this post and related links:

http://newtechusa.net/agile/executives-cant-make-agile-work/

...you seem to really understand the concepts. So here is more: I'm 
drawing from experiences and research into Tavistock/Group Relations 
(I've attended several of these "conferences") and also drawing heavily 
from the work of Arnold Van Gennep and Victor Turner.

Here's where I ended up:
http://newtechusa.net/open-agile-adoption/open-agile-adoption-components/

I reject the idea that we can simply make/force/coerce/mandate that 
people "do Agile practices" and after a while "everything will be OK." 
That's only true if there is explicit consent. Which is seldom the case, 
and leads to unease, disengagement, and the triggering and contagion of 
unconscious impulses across the entire organization. And more than a 
little resentment!

Thanks for your kind feedback. I plan to circle back and inspect your 
article very carefully.

Best Regards,
Daniel

On 3/30/14 1:27 PM, Rosa Zubizarreta wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Really appreciating what you've created here, with the "Open Agile 
> Adoption" model...
> wish I could be there! And, I'm very much looking forward to reading 
> your book,
> which I've just ordered.
>
> Would love to explore with you sometime,
> what Dynamic Facilitation 
> <https://d3gqux9sl0z33u.cloudfront.net/AA/AL/diapraxis/downloads/271633/ODP-V45_No1-Zubizarreta.pdf> can 
> offer to the agile manager's skill set.
>
> Oh and, much appreciate the Tavi perspective on OS, as well!
>
> all best wishes,
>
> Rosa
>
> /Rosa Zubizarreta/
> /Diapraxis: Facilitating Creative Collaboration
> http://www.diapraxis.com <http://www.diapraxis.com/>/
> /
> /
> /Celebrating my new book, "From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A 
> user's guide to Dynamic Facilitation" 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Creative-Collaboration-Dynamic-Facilitation/dp/1626526117/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394491921&sr=1-1&keywords=from+conflict+to+creative+collaboration>/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net 
> <mailto:dan at newtechusa.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm offering a 2-day course in the Open Agile Adoption method,
>     April 23-24. Many of you are already attending, and I think it is
>     probably a good idea for me to mention the class here, more
>     broadly, for those who are unaware of it.
>
>     You can see it here: Agile Success with Open Agile Adoption
>     http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-success-with-open-agile-adoption/
>
>     The quick summary of the whole idea is here:
>     http://newtechusa.net/agile/open-agile-adoption-explained/
>
>     There is a very interesting guest speaker planned for both days of
>     this learning event. (hint hint)
>
>
>
>     The basic premise of Open Agile Adoption (OAA) is that mandates
>     are fundamentally coercive, and lead to fear, which is death to
>     organizational learning and the capacity to adapt.
>
>     OAA swaps that nasty mandate of Agile practices with an invitation
>     to experiment with them, in service to higher levels of engagement
>     and far better results.
>
>     OAA uses Open Space, leadership storytelling, game mechanics and
>     experience design to help encourage a rapid and lasting Agile
>     adoption, the kind that leads to high performance. It focuses on
>     people before practices, and creates space for experimentation. It
>     uses patterns from cultural anthropology to reduce fear while
>     increasing feelings of control, belonging and purpose. It works.
>
>     To date, Open Space has been used mostly in public Agile conferences.
>     Little if any focus in the Agile community has been placed on the
>     amazing power of Open Space to help organizations transform. This
>     is what Open Agile Adoption is all about.
>
>     If you are an Agile coach or Open Space facilitator looking to get
>     better Agile adoption results, I hope you might consider attending
>     the course we have arranged for you, in April, in DC.
>
>     This is an important course.
>
>     You can learn more and register here:
>     http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-success-with-open-agile-adoption/
>
>     Kind Regards,
>     Daniel
>
>
>     -- 
>
>     Daniel Mezick, President
>
>     New Technology Solutions Inc.
>
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>
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Daniel Mezick, President

New Technology Solutions Inc.

(203) 915 7248 (cell)

Bio <http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/>. Blog 
<http://newtechusa.net/blog/>. Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/>.

Examine my new book:The Culture Game 
<http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/>: Tools for the 
Agile Manager.

Explore Agile Team Training 
<http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/> and Coaching. 
<http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/>

Explore the Agile Boston <http://newtechusa.net//user-groups/ma/>Community.

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