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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Deborah,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Congratulations for your OS
event.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Your reminder for topics is a good
one. In the same line, I invite people to visualize themselves leaving the room
at the end of the event and thinking "I wish I would have posted the topic
about...." . I get the same reaction . It may not have been a question
they came with at the meeting. It may have just emerged from hearing the
other topics and from the incubation. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Like you I've also observed that it
is often people who have been holding back who will decide to post then. The
trigger is so significant that in the closing circle they often do talk about
that moment as it was special for them - I think it feels special because
they are proud and happy of having taken leadership, of having taken their
space. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>When topics are mostly all up, I do
say that this is a dynamic agenda to which they can add topics at any time
during the discussion phase. The incubation continues to do it's work and new
topics do appear at times.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>A few words can make a difference on
how people will show up.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Diane</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=deborah@hartmann.net href="mailto:deborah@hartmann.net">Deborah
Hartmann</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:38
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bulk] Getting all the qustions
out :-)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I just ran another open space for techies on the weekend, at
XPday Manhattan. It was a amall and lively event, lots of fun.<BR>Results
here: <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://xpdayna.stikipad.com/manhattan2007/">http://xpdayna.stikipad.com/manhattan2007/</A>
<BR><BR>I was today reflecting on something I noticed there and at other XPday
events: when people are posting sessions and things slow down, I use reminders
like: "What question did you come in with, that you'd be disappointed to leave
without an answer?" This usually brings up someone right away (often a woman,
who are in the minority in this crowd). They've been holding back asking a
"silly question" that isn't silly at all, and they are relieved to get it out
there! There is always spirited discussion about this question, when the time
comes. I love it!<BR><BR>This is an element of "invitation" that is missing in
some of the BarCamps I've attended: I was so sad to hear someone say at
TorCamp "I guess I'll propose a topoic next time, when I'm better prepared"
:-(<BR><BR>deb<BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="60">--
Deborah Hartmann
Agile Process Improvement Coach
Lead Editor for InfoQ.com/Agile
deborah.hartmann.net
"My advice is to do it by the book,
get good at the practices,
then do as you will.
Many people want to skip to step three.
How do they know? " -- Ron Jeffries </PRE>* *
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