Invisible but Undeniable Impact
Very fun to discover that an event I facilitated, the Open Space portion of the 2008 Scrum Alliance conference here in Chicago, had a big impact. I just recently met someone who was among 200+...
View ArticleVirtual Open Space on Opening (All Kinds of) Space
Please join us for an experiment I've been working to organize... Inviting Community, Sharing Learnings, Evolving Practice Everywhere, July 8-11th or 9-12th (depending on where you are) Conference...
View ArticleOnline Conference Report
The most remarkable thing about the four-day, online Open Space conference I ran with Lucas Cioffi at QiqoChat.com last week is how strongly it replicated what so many of us have experienced in...
View ArticleOpenSpace Agility
Congratulations to Daniel Mezick and friends, who've done some great work to connect invitation, engagement, Open Space and Agile software development. The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, v.2.0 has just...
View ArticleDeveloping Agile Culture in an Agile Way
The brilliance of what they did, as an IT leader partnered with an HR leader, was to apply an agile approach to culture change. They created a culture change "backlog," a vision, broken down into goals...
View ArticleOpen Space for Rapid Agile Adoption
what happens when agile adoption runs on invitation and self-organization, more like open space? here is an interesting case story... walmart has 4000 core IT employees and another 6000 contractors --...
View ArticleBest Wishes and Big Pictures for the New Year
The simple negotiation tactic brought 195 countries to consensus The Jensen Group’s Future of Work report outlined what it will take to make disruptive change work for people and organizations The...
View ArticleInviting Agility
Still churning through all the ideas and connections that popped up at the Agile2016 conference in July. Collaborated with Mark Kilby on the design and facilitation of a two-part session on...
View ArticleMore Modern Agile Connections
Thanks to Deb Preuss and Steve Holyer to the first Agile Cocktails virtual (and international) lean coffee meetup today, where a small group of us just had a great conversation with Josh Kerievsky, CEO...
View ArticlePodcast: When Agile Meets Open Space
Thanks to Pilar Orti, in London, for capturing in a recent podcast some of the fun we had in the Distributed Agile Teamwork sessions, in the Audacious Salon track, at the Agile2016 Conference, and...
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