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Internal company wide Open Space events for inspecting and planning
Agile transformations is a great idea, and at least to some agile
coaches I've spoken with, it freaks out the execs. It also freaks
out those used to running command and control style forced change
"roll out" processes. They "roll out" Agile onto teams like a new
internal software package update. Like the organization is a
computer system. Even for Agile. It is the norm for Lean
transformations too. I've heard such transformations are called LINO
(Lean In Name Only). And it's ugly and ridiculous. But it's what
execs are used to buying, so that's what we sell them. Ugh.<br>
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Despite how powerfully Open Space has worked in public knowledge
sharing events like Agile Open (Thank You Diana!), it has been
harder to get buy-in for internal agile adoption planning and
retrospection events that empower self-organization as much as Open
Space does.<br>
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But as the results start coming in, this is changing. The Walmart
Story is a huge one - 3000 person internal IT converted to Agile
with 300 internal Open Space events! It was presented in Atlanta
last month. You can read it yourself. <a
href="https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/T.Kromann.M.Carey_.OpenTransformation-Lessons-from-20-Years-of-Changing-Organizations.pdf">https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/T.Kromann.M.Carey_.OpenTransformation-Lessons-from-20-Years-of-Changing-Organizations.pdf</a><br>
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A call to action. As more folks get exposed to Open Space, they'll
be looking to those with years of experience with it. Let's keep
this space welcoming, encouraging, ... and relevant.<br>
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Tony's request is a great one. Open Space has become so widespread
it's hard to keep track of all the success stories.<br>
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Like Diana did, let's keep sharing these success stories. And
perhaps we can self-organize a way to keep track of them and not
just force people to do google searches and pour over the OSList
archives. Any helpers?<br>
<br>
Cheers!<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/16 8:33 AM, Mark Sheffield via
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padding-bottom: 8px;" contenteditable="true">... or maybe it's a
good idea that just doesn't align with how "the Agile" is being
practiced.<br>
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Mark</div>
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<p>Ironically the use of enterprise-wide Open Space events is
rather limited in so-called "Agile transformations" worldwide.
I wonder if this has anything to do at all with authority's
fear of "enterprise wide truth-telling" about the conduct of
the Agile adoption.<br>
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"Everyone-invited, at-least-one-day, enterprise-wide Open
Space events that inspect the Agile adoption itself..."
...this is something only a few folks have experienced. Oddly.
Right?<br>
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For example, at Agile Israel as the closing keynote, I had the
opportunity to ask 600++ Agile folks the following question:</p>
<p>"How many folks here have ever attended an 'at-least-one-day,
enterprise-wide retrospective on the Agile adoption itself?'
"<br>
<br>
All of 4 hands went up. 4 out of 600++. Lots of crickets
chirping in the room. <br>
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I left out the "everyone-invited" part, so there was at least
some small chance of a response. <br>
<br>
Those gears of progress in the Agile community do grind
slowly...if at all. <br>
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<p>Just saying. <br>
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<p>Question: What's the set of impediments between the
status-quo, and making enterprise-wide retrospectives in Open
Space a common practice inside so-called "Agile
transformations?" <br>
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Perhaps periodic, everyone-invited, enterprise-wide
Agile-adoption retrospectives in Open Space is just a dumb
idea. Not at all aligned with Agile principles, etc.<br>
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<p>Daniel <br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
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