<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hello everyone,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>This topic is vibrant with questions and exploration! Like others, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">I believe the values of OS and Agile have commonality and a strength that keep life, dialogue and high performance flowing in the communities of practice like they do with any organization or person who experience "open process". </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:
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<div class="MsoNormal">Similar good discussions occurred about combining the method part of other approaches, for example OS and Appreciative Inquiry. The <span style="background-color: transparent; ">Nov.2004 edition of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">AI
Practitioner magazine, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">to which Harrison, Peggy, myself and 14 others provided articles, gives examples of combining </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">OS-AI in certain situations, of keeping the process as open as possible and points to factors to consider</span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; ">When a choice is made for some reason to combine approaches,</span><span style="background-color: transparent;
"> h</span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">ow much of the mechanics to keep or how to integrate them seems to depend on the context. If attention is paid to the particulars of the situation and an effort is made to create room as much as possible for people, chances increase that we can do things "more naturally" with a greater likelihood of attaining success and satisfaction. </span><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; ">I look forward to more exchanges </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">when we hear from your
perspective Dan about ways to fail (and presumably ways to avoid failing) with OS within Agile</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "> and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "> within </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; ">Open Agile Adoption technique which integrates both OS and Agile as well as about </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; ">"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">forces that oppose Agile and Agile Adoption"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color:
transparent; "><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">And yes, happily, thinking keeps on evolving. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Cordially,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;
">Diane</div></span></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 2px 0px 0px 2px; display: block; "><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.22; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 2px 0px 0px 2px; display: block; "><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: Times; "><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size:
12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Mezick <dan@newtechusa.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:25:48 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] Open Space with Agile: Failure patterns<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8180186349">
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Greetings to you,<br>
<br>
In Paris this week at the Global Scrum Gathering I plan to issue
certain warning about specific failure patterns I have experienced
when working with Open Space inside Agile adoptions. I can tell you
right now that Open Space by itself is not a panacea for the complex
problems associated with Agile adoption. <br>
<br>
Agile is actually a cover story about the wider act of bringing
culture change (a new and unfamiliar game) to an enterprise
situation (the old story we all want to cling to). The SPIRIT book
pretty much spells out the problem. <br>
<br>
I've learned that there are actually more ways to fail with Open
Space in Agile adoptions than there are ways to succeed. There are
many ways to stumble when trying this. I'll be enumerating some of
these subtle Agile-related pitfalls and traps in the Paris keynote
on Tuesday, and in upcoming blog posts. Simply holding one or more
canonical Open Space meetings (with full pre-planning and post
processing) is not enough to neutralize the forces that oppose
healthy and well Agile adoptions. The game mechanics, storytelling
and passage-rite-structure elements must be present and robust for
Open Space to be an effective tool in Agile adoptions. Open Space
and these elements are composed in harmony with each other in the
Open Agile Adoption technique.<br>
<br>
If you offer training in Open Space for Facilitators and/or
Sponsors, I invite you to send me your links and I will make sure
they are added to the list of resources I am beginning to compile at
OpenAgileAdoption.com. I plan to list in the Paris slides some
specific French-language OST course offerings from French-speaking
instructors located in Europe, and Quebec.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
Dan<br>
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