[OSList] Open Agile Adoption: wait, it gets better

Wed Oct 29 20:07:15 PDT 2014

Thank you very much for posting Daniel,
for your immediate comments and for prompting me to look into OAA and your
work.

I've been ruminating for some time how to best help clients transform their
organisations, knowing that 'managing' the change won't work for the
transitions they want (to more cocreative, collaborative, empowered
states)... they are feeling this but I don't think it has really
crystallised for them yet.  I've been convinced there is work to be done
but not sure I am in a position to do it.

I found little inspiration in change management, but I should have known I
was looking in the wrong spot!

Going away to digest what I can find...

Cheers

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>  Hi Suzanne,
>
> Thank you for your kind and encouraging response to these videos. It means
> a lot.
>
> We presented the course "Agile Success with Open Agile Adoption" at the
> Scrum Retreat in Raleigh NC on 10/27-28, sponsored and arranged by the
> Scrum Alliance. This event offered a huge opportunity to bring OAA with
> Open Space to the attention of about 85 external and internal Agile
> coaches. These are influential connectors who collectively touch thousands
> of people as they do their work. I printed 100 copies of the Open Agile
> Adoption Handbook, and gifted every single attendee with a copy.
>
> It is important to note at this time your observation, Suzanne:
>
> *"...introducing Agile in an Agile Open way is far better than mandating
> it.  The same would apply to all change management approaches outside of
> Scrum and Agile. "*
>
>
> YES, and, so interesting: others in the USA and Europe have made the very
> same observation. Coaches in Europe are using the OAA approach to introduce
> non-Agile process change. And early reports indicate it is working great.
> The OAA approach is broadly applicable, as the 'introducer' of any kind of
> process change.
>
> In light of the foregoing, the following developments are well underway:
>
> 1. The core structure (begin in Open Space, experimentation with
> new-process for 3++ months, then another Open Space to terminate a passage
> rite structure) has been isolated as a base class or foundation, called
> Prime/OS. This is now being published under an open source license, with
> all that open-source licensing implies. I have spoken about this here, in
> some detail, earlier. The core idea is found here:
> http://newtechusa.net/agile/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free/
>
> 2. OAA is built on top of Prime/OS and is in fact a derivative work. As
> such, OAA is also being published under an open source license, per the
> rules of the Prime/OS license. You can see that here: www.prime-os.com.
> What this means is that innovators are strongly encouraged to innovate,
> using Prime/OS as a foundation. Also to modify it and thus to improve it.
> OAA is an instance of an application that inherits Prime/OS as a basic
> foundation. The "OS" in Prime/OS stands for Open Space and Open Source.
>
> 3. Others who wish to create innovative derivative works like OAA are
> strongly encouraged to do so. As such they are first required to honor the
> terms of the Prime/OS open source license, or opt-out. Details on open
> source licensing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license
>
> 4. There are others with substantial "culture tech" that will soon be
> announcing availability of their work under open source licensing. This is
> an emerging movement, and is not a flash in the pan. "Culture technology
> wants to be free."
>
>
>
> It is important to understand that the opt-in invitational approach,
> inspired by Open Space (with the goal being learning via experimentation,
> with the only constraint being the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto) is
> considered a heresy by the mainstream of the Agile movement. Repeat, this
> is considered heresy, as in "it cant work. It will not sell."
>
> Really?
>
>
> The "mainstreaming" of mandated Agile practices and forced-Agile adoptions
> and related Agile coaching is a huge industry now. There are lots of
> transactions and very few genuine transformations at scale. Yet the
> top-down mandate is easily generating at least $US 100MM per annum. I know
> of 2 outfits that are generating over 20MM each. This 100MM number is quite
> conservative.
>
>
>
> One consequence of OAA is that new demand for OST facilitation is being
> generated. The OAA method guides coaches to avoid the OST Facilitator role
> completely, in service to the org's overall learning. The guidance is to
> bring a skilled Facilitator in, instead. Coaches become "members of the
> family" and as such probably cannot be effective in the OST facilitator
> role. Since a typical OAA implementaton includes at least 3 OST events, the
> arithmetic is very simple: 1000 OAA implementations worldwide per year
> implies 3000 or more OST events inside organizations. OAA's guidance to
> coaches is to bring a new Facilitator into each event. This translates into
> much higher demand for skilled OST Facilitator services.
>
> It appears the Agile coaching community is about to tip, away from
> mandates and towards invitations. At the Scrum Coaching Retreat, I have
> found a core group of about 20 of the 80 attending who totally, totally get
> this and are making moves. The rest are getting introduced to the concepts
> via the book.
>
> This story is emerging, and the early adopters who bring this forward are
> writing it. It's these coaches from the Scrum Retreat and others who are
> IN. They are the emerging *authors* of the story and also the emerging
> *characters* in the story.
>
>
>
> The next thing to happen is the publication of many short testimonial
> videos along the lines of the 2 I have posted today. These will be posted
> as public YouTube videos that anyone anywhere can embed in their blogs and
> web pages.
>
> These are some exciting times we live in.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
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> On 10/29/14 7:20 PM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
>
>   Dan,
>
>  No questions on "what the heck" you are doing just unabashed kudos on
> these very compelling videos. A great gift!  Why was I so hooked?  Because
> of the seriousness of the discussions, the level of detail shared which
> demonstrates unequivocally the value and impact of Open Space to the work
> at hand. I also appreciated the comments around the difficulties of
> adjusting to the level of autonomy and freedom that is such a contrast to
> how organizations traditionally operate. You opened the space beautifully
> in the interviews which made it very safe for the interviewees to share so
> honestly and openly.
>
>  These videos also make the point in ways that words and assertions may
> not do as well, that introducing Agile in an Agile Open way is far better
> than mandating it.  The same would apply to all change management
> approaches outside of Scrum and Agile.
>
>   I was also so pleased to hear how what Agile was doing was also being
> felt by other areas (engineering I think is what one of the interviewees
> quoted).  I guess it is time for me to say: glad you've stuck to your guns.
> You were right which I never doubted though you also know how passionate I
> am introducing Open Space to other parts of the organization. Your work
> will indeed pave the way. Bravo!
>
>  Giving you full credit, do I have your permission to share these with
> clients?  I look forward to seeing the other videos.
>
>  Thanks again Dan.  So very very cool!
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>>  Here are two short videos of people telling the tale of Open Agile
>> Adoption in their own words.
>>
>> The Open Agile Adoption process (http://www.OpenAgileAdoption.com)
>> begins and ends in Open Space. In between, people *play*...er, I mean
>> *experiment*...with Agile practices. For 3 or 4 months.
>>
>> They are free.
>>
>> However, the game does have one small constraint: the Agile Manifesto. So
>> long as what they are doing does not obviously conflict with the Agile
>> Manifesto principles, they are absolutely free to try absolutely any new
>> practice they want to try, in service to continuous improvement.
>>
>>
>> Video #1: Length 13 minutes.
>> A UX/Experience Design pro explains his skepticism and ultimate shift...
>> powered by Open Space.
>> https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/527506795968069632
>>
>> Video #2: Length 15 minutes.
>> A Product person explains what he thinks and feels before and after the
>> Open Agile Adoption process.
>> https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/527566037211176960
>>
>> Dozens more videos are on the way.
>>
>> I hope you find these 2 initial narratives interesting, and I welcome
>> your questions about what the heck I am doing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>> New to the Manifesto? Here it is:
>> http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
>>
>>
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