[OSList] Fwd: Re: number of breakout groups

[Jeff Aitken]

"Be prepared to be surprised" may not be as widely shared as the other
famous OST phrases - but it sure helps facilitators as well as
participants!

Jeff
San Francisco


On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 9:37 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Christian,
>
> yes, it depends on many factors. You identified a number of them.
> For those really interested in this aspect and passionate about
> developing a tool, have a look at the list so far:
>
> 1--- number of participants
> 2--- length of event
> 3--- number of "planned" opportunities (evening announcements, morning news
> 4--- degree of urgency (decision time of yesterday)
> 5--- degree of complexity of the challenge
> 6--- degree of confusion (degree of unknowing in regard to answers)
> 7--- level of potential conflict
> 8--- level of diversity among the participants
> 9--- age of  participants
> 10-- productive framework (daylight, fresh and healthy food, fresh air,
> a wonderful view into the surroundings, participants staying on-site
> during the entire event... )
> ---
> ---
> ---
> Some of these parameters can be arrived at in the registration process
> (1, 8, 9)
> Some are part of the design and overall site planning (2, 3, 10)
> Some are part of the planning process (going through the prerequisites
> for an OST event in the contact meeting with the sponsor... such as 4,
> 5, 6, 7, 8).
>
> I know how to do a graph with 2 parameters... but there must be ways
> with more parameters. A computer program, an algorithm. This might be
> something an agile-ost-worker could work out.
>
> A few times I have also seen participants that would not post issues and
> would not go to breakout session but just hung around and did the
> butterfly. Dont we think that, systemically speaking, butterflies are
> important "centers of inactivity" providing spaces for the unexpected.
> Ok, how would that fit into a "formula"?
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 06.06.2019 um 12:02 schrieb Dr. Christian Kemper:
> > Am 06.06.19 um 01:10 schrieb Michael M Pannwitz via OSList:
> >
> >> I wonder what additional parameters other than than number of
> >> participants and length of the event would have to be considered for a
> >> more reliable tool to predict the number of issues to be expected at
> >> an OST event.
> >
> > Hihi, Michael:-)
> >
> > As far as I experienced there is no rule or reliable answer to this
> > question - it depends on so many factors (e.g. how urgent is the os, how
> > complex the question, how unknown the answer, how conflictual the
> > problem, how diverse the group and so on).
> >
> > But one thing I was able to see so often is that the younger the people
> > are the more issues they raise. In open spaces with children there are
> > sometimes as many issues as people participate, the maximum I saw was
> > 1.3 issues per person (in a 1.5 day os with around 100 people).
> >
> > I also remember one girl who raised eleven issues in a three-day open
> > space with six starting times.
> >
> > And i remember the boy, who negotiated his issue in the same open space
> > over the whole time, again and again and supplemented and expanded it
> > and finally probably negotiated with all 250 people right up to the
> > action planning. It was: "Cocoa instead of milk in the breaks". At the
> > next meeting he reported and justified with a broad chest and proudly
> > that it was not implemented after he had gone through all school
> > instances (and democracy learned from it).
> >
> > Sunny greetings to all of you!
> >
> > Christian
> >
>
> --
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannwitz at gmail.com
>
>
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 483 resident Open
> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org
>
> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in
> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation
>
> --
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannwitz at gmail.com
>
>
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 483 resident Open
> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org
>
> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in
> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation
> _______________________________________________
> OSList mailing list
> To post send emails to OSList at lists.openspacetech.org
> To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave at lists.openspacetech.org
> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:
> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
> Past archives can be viewed here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20190606/da378bdd/attachment.html>