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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sounds good to me. As long as I have known about SCRUM, AGIL, etc – it has been clear to me that being “scrummingly agil” was simply being fully, consciously, intentionally self organizing. That is total High Performance. And Open Space happens to be (a) fast track to get “there.” Not by doing something, unique, special or weird ... but simply be being what we already are. Self organizing. But it does require a certain letting go of most of the things we thought we should be thinking/doing.. Or something. Carry On!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Winter Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Summer Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Websites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="%20www.openspaceworld.com"> www.openspaceworld.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OSLIST </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Quartel via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] FAST Agile - A proposed experiment for a new Agile Scaled Method built on OST<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Last year at the Scrum Gathering in New Orleans, the last day was an Open Space. It was not my first exposure to OST and I was already in love the format the from my first experience at an Agile Open Northwest conference years before. But what was different this time was the realization that no one has yet used this proven technology to organize software development on a large scale. And so was the birth of an idea for such a methodology.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>After running the idea by some small groups earlier this year - Agile Open Northwest 2015 in Portland, The Scrum Gathering Phoenix 2015, a Seattle SaFE meetup, I was encouraged to proceed with the idea and began piecing it all together into a methodology/framework (frameology?).<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Last week at the Agile Roots conference in Salt Lake City I made the official launch of FAST with my presentation there. You can see the slide deck over at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RonQuartel/continous-deliver-and-agileatscale">http://www.slideshare.net/RonQuartel/continous-deliver-and-agileatscale</a> though you will not get much from these as most of the content was on the white board, demonstrations, conversations and Q&A. (I'm not a big fan of slide heavy presentations.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>At the same time I launched a Google group (FAST Agile), a website <a href="http://www.fast-agile.com">http://www.fast-agile.com</a> and a twitter account with hashtag @FAST_software #FASTAgile. The website is in minimal viable state still and I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are some mistakes in there. But I will be spending time tending this garden and bringing it to bloom hopefully as this is my new baby and passion.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>FAST differs to Daniel Mezick's Open Agile Adoption as they have a very different focus. As I understand it (and please feel free to correct me Daniel), Open Agile Adoption uses OST as the means for helping with the transformation of an organization to adopt an agile method - Scrum. FAST uses OST as a replacement for Scrum. So you could in fact use Daniel's Open Agile Adoption to implement FAST. FAST relies on the strengths of OST to essentially ensure self organization, collaboration and a pull model of work. All things that scrum pays lip service to but seems to fail at actually implementing time and time again. (As well as Code Craftsmanship which I have addressed by building it in as a core value.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Don't get me wrong about scrum. The theory is good and if done well produces good results. But as an agile coach I rarely have seen Scrum done well and so was inspired to create a methodology that will not lend itself to be so poorly implemented time and time again.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>FAST uses a variation of OST. You will recognize the inspiration behind the values and principals directly attributed to OST's principles and strengths :-<o:p></o:p></p><h2><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-weight:normal'>FAST Values</span><o:p></o:p></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><a name=TOC-Face-to-face-communication-includes-><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Face to face communication (includes/implies <i>Collocation</i>)</span><o:p></o:p></a></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Code Craftsmanship (includes/implies Code Quality and <i>Technical Excellence</i>)</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Self-organization (includes/implies <i>Trust </i>and <i>Collaboration</i>)</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Shared vision (includes/implies <i>Shared Single Purpose</i> and <i>Alignment</i>)</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr style='height:138.0pt'><td width=662 style='width:496.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:138.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><br><span style='color:#333333'>FAST Principles</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>The right people will work on the right stories</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>The right discussions will happen at the right time, with the right people to resolve dependencies and emerge the design</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Whatever happens, is the only thing that could have</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Stories will start and be completed at the right time and in the right sequence</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>FAST stands for Fast Agile Scaled Technology. The Technology refers to OST. I'm not really pushing the acronym aspect to the name so you won't see it published anywhere but wanted to share it with this small group.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>I hope you like FAST, will join the FAST community and help evolving it into the methodology that produces software faster than anything on the planet today!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Ron Quartel<br>Summer Solstice 2015<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>