Agile Open 2005: registration open

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The Agile Open 2005 registration is now open. Looks like many nice agile fellows will attend this openspace event near Brussels. Some propositions of workshop have already been made. One attracted my attention: the Cynefin framework. I read the paper from IBM and the thing seems very interesting. Here is an extract:

In another case, a group of West Point graduates were asked to manage the playtime of a kindergarten as a final year assignment. The cruel thing is that they were given time to prepare. They planned; they rationally identified objectives; they determined backup and response plans. They then tried to “order” children’s play based on rational design principles, and, in consequence, achieved chaos. They then observed what teachers do. Experienced teachers allow a degree of freedom at the start of the session, then intervene to stabilize desirable patterns and destabilize undesirable ones; and, when they are very clever, they seed the space so that the patterns they want are more likely to emerge.

I also particularly appreciated the underlying idea that human behaviour could be not predictable. Cynefin seems to be a way of trying to accept this entropy and to change the way we take decision accordingly. Now, I really would like to see how this approach could be used concretely.Of course, I am sure many other interesting things will happen during those two days. Hope to see you there!

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