[OSList] OS at work

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Internal company wide Open Space events for inspecting and planning 
Agile transformations is a great idea, and at least to some agile 
coaches I've spoken with, it freaks out the execs. It also freaks out 
those used to running command and control style forced change "roll out" 
processes. They "roll out" Agile onto teams like a new internal software 
package update. Like the organization is a computer system. Even for 
Agile. It is the norm for Lean transformations too. I've heard such 
transformations are called LINO (Lean In Name Only). And it's ugly and 
ridiculous. But it's what execs are used to buying, so that's what we 
sell them. Ugh.

Despite how powerfully Open Space has worked in public knowledge sharing 
events like Agile Open (Thank You Diana!), it has been harder to get 
buy-in for internal agile adoption planning and retrospection events 
that empower self-organization as much as Open Space does.

But as the results start coming in, this is changing. The Walmart Story 
is a huge one - 3000 person internal IT converted to Agile with 300 
internal Open Space events! It was presented in Atlanta last month. You 
can read it yourself. 
https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/T.Kromann.M.Carey_.OpenTransformation-Lessons-from-20-Years-of-Changing-Organizations.pdf

A call to action. As more folks get exposed to Open Space, they'll be 
looking to those with years of experience with it. Let's keep this space 
welcoming, encouraging, ... and relevant.

Tony's request is a great one. Open Space has become so widespread it's 
hard to keep track of all the success stories.

Like Diana did, let's keep sharing these success stories. And perhaps we 
can self-organize a way to keep track of them and not just force people 
to do google searches and pour over the OSList archives. Any helpers?

     Cheers!
     Harold

On 9/3/16 8:33 AM, Mark Sheffield via OSList wrote:
> ... or maybe it's a good idea that just doesn't align with how "the 
> Agile" is being practiced.
>
> Mark
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>
> Ironically the use of enterprise-wide Open Space events is rather 
> limited in so-called "Agile transformations" worldwide. I wonder if 
> this has anything to do at all with authority's fear of "enterprise 
> wide truth-telling" about the conduct of the Agile adoption.
>
> "Everyone-invited, at-least-one-day, enterprise-wide Open Space events 
> that inspect the Agile adoption itself..." ...this is something only a 
> few folks have experienced. Oddly. Right?
>
> For example, at Agile Israel as the closing keynote, I had the 
> opportunity to ask 600++ Agile folks the following question:
>
> "How many folks here have ever attended an 'at-least-one-day, 
> enterprise-wide retrospective on the Agile adoption itself?' "
>
> All of 4 hands went up. 4 out of 600++. Lots of crickets chirping in 
> the room.
>
> I left out the "everyone-invited" part, so there was at least some 
> small chance of a response.
>
> Those gears of progress in the Agile community do grind slowly...if at 
> all.
>
> Just saying.
>
> Question: What's the set of impediments between the status-quo, and 
> making enterprise-wide retrospectives in Open Space a common practice 
> inside so-called "Agile transformations?"
>
> Perhaps periodic, everyone-invited, enterprise-wide Agile-adoption 
> retrospectives in Open Space is just a dumb idea. Not at all aligned 
> with Agile principles, etc.
>
> Daniel
>
>

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