[OSList] Agile culture - video (X-posted OS/GC-list)

[Barry Owen]

It's all Open Space  . . . Nice clarity on what you have written here
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 1:10 PM Michael Herman via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> When I first met the (fledgling, at that time) Agile community, Thomas, it
> was because they'd asked me to introduce OS as a track in their first
> annual conference (2002).  When I showed up, they explained to me what
> Agile was.  I just started laughing. "Guys," I said, "You do realize that
> you're making software in Open Space!"  My short explanation of that
> characterization is that in both Agile and OS, "We put all the most
> important stuff on the wall.  And then we get it done."
>
> Fast forward to 2017, Mike Beedle, one of the original co-authors of the
> Agile Manifesto (agilemanifesto.org), launched a framework for (whole)
> Business or Enterprise Agility.  The foundation of that is an adapted
> "Business Model Canvas."  Mike and I used to muse about whether the 9-15
> boxes on those canvases were so many small open spaces (on important
> dimensions of the work, or if it was really one big open space with a
> finite number of predictable tracks of work (e.g. purpose, customer,
> metrics, team practices, resources, governance, value delivery, and so
> on).  Either way, we always agreed that Mike's Enterprise Scrum
> canvas-based framework was surely a form of Ongoing Open Space.
>
> Since then, in practice, I've found that following an OS meeting with work
> in an Enterprise Scrum canvas, the canvas being a way to keep the
> marketplace open and loosely organized going forward, is a somewhat more
> rigorous but also natural enough way to support "keeping the work going"
> after the OS.
>
> Overall, what I like about the pairing of OS and Agile approaches is
> this:  The strong invitation, engagement, alignment that arises so quickly
> and easily in OS doesn't automatically lead into rigorous action, if the
> organization doesn't already have that rigor active in itself.  At the same
> time, Agile approaches bring an easy, natural rigor to work, but don't
> necessarily invite, engage and align.  Imposed, and Too Narrow (closed),
> understanding of Agile, Value and Transformation too often have Agile teams
> working very rigorously but not as smart and aligned as they really
> want/need to be.
>
> Some combination of open (space) invitation and operational (agile) rigor,
> however, in the same/shared spirit of self-organization, is my favorite way
> to play these days.
>
> Michael
>
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> Michael Herman
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>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:48 AM Thomas Herrmann via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends in Open Space
>>
>> I had an interesting meeting today with a person in a large IT company
>> and I was reminded about this video, I think I shared it here before but
>> it’s worth watching again – I noticed! This link leads to the full 25 min
>> video, about the Agile Culture in Spotify company. There are shorter
>> versions too, but I recommend the full if you are really interested. Lots
>> of good stuff and interesting to understanding more about this approach and
>> how it can be used in a healthy way (as it sounds). I know it can also be
>> ”mis-used” just like OST.
>>
>>
>> https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=spotify+agile&&view=detail&mid=5DC370E7746AF98272625DC370E7746AF9827262&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dspotify%2Bagile%26FORM%3DVDVVXX
>>
>> We had some great conversations and areas of collaboration we will
>> explore bringing OST and GC into that company.
>>
>> Wishing you lots of open space for fun during the coming weekend
>>
>> Hugs
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas Herrmann
>>
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