Cycle 06 - Language Refactoring

The suggested theme of this Cycle is "Language Refactoring", which refers to a need in the OpenAgile Community and among its Champions to have a full understanding of the intent and language of OpenAgile. We want to make it easier for people doing all types of work to connect with the OpenAgile materials and to learn.

Enagement Meeting
Date: Saturday Dec. 18, 2010 9:00am to 5:00pm PST (GMT -8)

Location: Redwood City, California

Webcast: www.agilelearninglabs.com/agile-tv/ or on Ustream

Sponsors: Agile Learning Labs

Community Members in attendance:

David Parker, Mishkin Berteig, Garry Berteig, Chris Sims, Steve Bockman, Hillary Johnson, Betty Gonzalez, Peter Bloom, David Chilcott, user:DavidSabine

Reflection Notes
Everyone is encouraged to collect their reflections throughout the duration of the Cycle on their User_talk Page. Add a link like this:

Notes from User User_talk:User:

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Notes from David Parker User_talk:David:

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Learning Notes
Answers to the question "What did you learn about Agile in the past 3 months?" Participants wrote their comments on sticky notes and posted them on a wall.



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Planning Notes (Prioritized Value Drivers and Tasks)
Format for Tracking Tasks: Task not started: ==> o - - Task description here Task started by Paul Heidema: ==>  o - Paul Heidema - Task description here Task completed: ==>  x - date completed - Task description here



Content edit OpenAgile gateway documents
Tasks:

x - 20101218 - Mishkin Berteig - create detailed framework for splitting the OpenAgile Primer

x - 20110106 - David Parker - re-organize the main OpenAgile Primer section of the wiki based on the framework for splitting the OpenAgile Primer

o - Mishkin Berteig - add anecdotes or analogies to each document of the OpenAgile Primer to help people relate to the concepts more

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to OpenAgile Primer on Truthfulness

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to OpenAgile Primer on the Learning Circle

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to OpenAgile Primer on Consultative Decision-Making

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to Primer on the OpenAgile Process

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to Primer on the Purpose of OpenAgile

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to Primer on the Participants of OpenAgile

x - 20110126 - David Parker - add axioms from old version of Primer to Primer on Getting Started with OpenAgile

o - - draft text for OpenAgile Primer on Truthfulness

o - - draft text for OpenAgile Primer on the Learning Circle

o - - draft text for OpenAgile Primer on Consultative Decision-Making

o - - draft text for Primer on the OpenAgile Process

o - - draft text for Primer on the Purpose of OpenAgile

o - - draft text for Primer on the Participants of OpenAgile

o - - draft text for Primer on Getting Started with OpenAgile

o - - edit OpenAgile Glossary

o - - make relevant changes to the Readiness Knowledge Test

o - - add references to each document of the OpenAgile Primer where appropriate (i.e. to other books, documents, web sites, etc.)



Diagram of a suggestion by Garry Berteig for how to break down the OpenAgile Primer into several gateway documents. Each concept, for example Truthfulness or Consultative Decision-Making, is represented by circles, and each circle makes up a ring of essential concepts. All must be understood to achieve Readiness. However, they don't need to be read in any specific order. Beyond that, each central concept can be examined more deeply (represented by triangle then square) as the participant desires.



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Content edit OpenAgile.com website
Tasks:

o - - edit home page: http://www.openagile.com/

o - - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/LearningManifesto

o - 2011-01-06 David Parker - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/OpenAgileInstitute

o - - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/TheOpenAgilePrimer

o - - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/OpenAgilePresentations

x - 2010-12-21 David Parker - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/OpenAgileCertificationProgram

Details: Only the Readiness and Team Member paths of service have officially been released. The other paths of service are "Under Construction", but each of them had a list of potential requirements. I moved each of the lists to their respective sections in the wiki and provided a link. I also noted that people are welcome to contribute to building up the learning about requirements for each of the paths of service.

o - - edit page: http://www.openagile.com/Contributors

o - - edit OpenAgile Process Overview document

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Review and refactor OpenAgile Readiness Knowledge Test
Tasks:

o - - review functionality of the test module in Drupal and correct behavior

o - - segment the questions so that a user can pass 10-15 questions at a time (ie. doesn't have to pass all 50 in a row to get 100%)

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Articulate the Vision, Mission Statement, Goal, and Purpose of OpenAgile in a clear manner
Tasks:

o - JoshW - Write up and propose mission statement for OpenAgile

o - David Parker JoshW - Discuss proposed mission statement for OpenAgile

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Organize the wiki.openagile.org site to emphasize community involvement
x - 2010-12-21 David Parker - Created a Reflection Repository and a Learning Repository with sections and connecting links for each path of service. This is needed so that our learning objectives are based on experience.

x - 2010-01-26 David Parker - cleaned up main page of the wiki so that people know they can contribute to any part of OpenAgile that they're interested in.

x - 2010-01-26 David Parker - Added links from the main page to each gateway document of the OpenAgile Primer

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Put in the framework for the various levels of capacity building for teams on the wiki
x - 2010-12-21 David Parker - This is closely associated with the previous Value Driver. The sections for the paths of service are now built. They just need to be populated with experience and real world knowledge.

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Schedule and find location for the next Community Engagement Meeting
o - David Parker and Mishkin Berteig - April 1, 2011 in Toronto, Canada

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Add content from old version of OpenAgile Primer to relevant sections of the wiki
x - 2011-01-26 David Parker - create section for comparing OpenAgile to PMBoK

x - 2011-01-26 David Parker - add history of OpenAgile to the main page

x - 2011-01-26 David Parker - add a section on Teamwork Skills to the Team Member manual

x - 2011-01-26 David Parker - add a section on Team Self-Organization to the Team Member manual

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More Prioritized Value Drivers are listed here: http://wiki.openagile.org/wiki/OA_Community_Value_Drivers#Sorted_Value_Drivers