Cycle 05 - Advanced Capacity-Building

The suggested theme of this Cycle is "Advanced Capacity Building" which refers both to the OpenAgile Community and its Champions, as well as the training and development materials for individuals, teams and organizations which wish to develop advanced capacities using OpenAgile.

Enagement Meeting
Date: Sunday Sep. 19, 2010

Location: Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave., Toronto

Sponsors: Frontline Partners with Youth Network (FPYN), Berteig Consulting

Community Members in attendance: Mishkin Berteig (GF), David Parker (Exec. Dir.), Paul Heidema (PF), Mitra Gopaul (Champion), Jenny Katz (FPYN), Ellen Gerrior (FPYN)

Reflection Notes
Everyone is welcome to add their reflections below.

Notes from David Parker: OpenAgile Community is approximately 200 people and growing. This includes people who have been trained and are actively using OpenAgile as well as people who "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

The Team Member Level is complete. Someone said "The Mentor serves the Team but is not necessarily on the Team." I like this. It emphasizes that the Mentor is another path of service.

Question: How do you create enough of a foundation with OpenAgile that people can walk into an established organizational culture? There is a "learning" component, which can be accomplished in a training session. There is also the need for "buy in" from members of the organization, team, etc. You have to make sure people get OpenAgile enough to know if it will be a fit and worth switching to.

Question: What is/isn't doing OpenAgile? What must you do to work in an OpenAgile way? For example, is having a Goal, or working in Cycles, an absolute essential? If you don't have _blank_, are you still doing OpenAgile? Would be useful to have a set of "rules". Along these lines, someone suggested that OpenAgile is aspirational. Trying to do OpenAgile is actually doing OpenAgile.

Idea: Create capacity-building "circles" for helping people pursuing capacity in a level to get better within the company of peers. For example, an OpenAgile Mentor Circle where people who are trying to be OpenAgile Mentors can talk with other Mentors. Another example, Team Member Circle for helping Team Members be better Team Members.

Question: What is the relationship of existing OpenAgile Teams (a team of people who are trained and certified as Team Members) with the OpenAgile Community?

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Learning Notes
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Planning - Prioritized Value Drivers and Tasks
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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

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x - David Parker - Fix and announce date and location of next Community Engagement Meeting (approximately Dec. 19th, 2010)

Tasks: meeting with calendars; identify location; ask community members if they'd like to sponsor; announce date, location, and sponsor to the OpenAgile Community

Supporting FPYN with creating a learning environment (who can be a Mentor/Catalyst?). David Parker is moving to San Francisco and needs to transition the relationship with FPYN to a new Mentor

Tasks: David will initiate holding an open orientation to FPYN with potential Mentors; potential Mentor review the FPYN website ; potential Mentor attend an open orientation to understand FPYN; arrange a meeting with the FPYN team to finalize transition to the new Mentor

Create alternative exercises for Truthfulness

x - David Parker - Tasks: David did some conceptual work on this exercise and tried to come up with something inspired by a Prisoner's Dilemma simulation. His exercise still needs work.

Create OpenAgile.com page for service providers (partners, affiliates, whatever!)

x - 20/09/2010 - David Parker Page created called "Service Providers" which serves as a place to list officially recognized providers of OpenAgile services. There are two streams - Training and Accompaniment. Currently, only Team Member training is available; however, many providers can Accompany people to build other capacities such as Team Member, Process Facilitator, Growth Facilitator, Mentor, Tutor, Catalyst.

Create OpenAgile.com page for public courses. Public courses can only be offered by official Service Providers. All public courses being offered by the above Service Providers should be listed on this page.

Tasks: have conversation about whether or not OpenAgile website should process registrations (alternatively, service provider processes themselves and shares attendee information); install Drupal widget

Update wiki.openagile.org front page for better navigation

x - David Parker - Done but can always be improved further

Membership growth: triple in this Cycle from 136 to 408.

Tasks:
 * x - 27/09/2010 - David Parker draw in new members from facebook, twitter, linkedin; announce to all that membership is free, first level is free
 * o - - have a conversation about people's interests and motivations for signing up
 * o - - send follow-up survey to all new members of OpenAgile.com to learn more about them, their interests, and motivations

Readiness certificate growth: quadruple in this Cycle from 26 to 104.

Tasks: make announcement to people who have joined OpenAgile to get them to take the basic readiness

Team Member certificate growth: double in this Cycle from 13 to 26 (not just Champions!!!)

Create v1.0 published Team Member materials (slides, manuals, etc.) for use by community and post on OpenAgile.com

Create OpenAgile Institute legal entity

Create Evaluation/Assessment Tool to decide if OpenAgile is a valuable path to follow (what are the preconditions? what are the goals?)

Put OpenAgile Primer onto wiki (similar to Team Member manual)

x - David Parker - Done