Comments on: Agile Fishbowl http://lostechies.com/chrispatterson/2007/11/16/agile-fishbowl/ Just another LosTechies site Mon, 06 May 2013 07:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jason Meridth http://lostechies.com/chrispatterson/2007/11/16/agile-fishbowl/#comment-10 Jason Meridth Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:57:09 +0000 /blogs/chris_patterson/archive/2007/11/15/agile-fishbowl.aspx#comment-10 Excellent. Excellent.

]]> By: Chris Patterson http://lostechies.com/chrispatterson/2007/11/16/agile-fishbowl/#comment-9 Chris Patterson Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:51:59 +0000 /blogs/chris_patterson/archive/2007/11/15/agile-fishbowl.aspx#comment-9 I sat with another two at the start, but I returned to the audience several times. I would say I spent maybe 50% of the time in the bowl, but the conversation really took off without me in the bowl. I had sent out a few links of Extreme Programming related sites on Monday so they had a couple of days to look it over beforehand. I'm sure not everyone did, but the contributions were great. Questions like "How can we do "insert existing process" under the new format?" really pushed the conversation into the areas that really needed to be explored. And while we didn't resolve all the mappings there in the meeting, we certainly identified areas that we'll need to watch for as we evolve. I think it is an excellent way to facilitate a meeting that doesn't have a set agenda where you want to avoid falling into presentation mode. I sat with another two at the start, but I returned to the audience several times. I would say I spent maybe 50% of the time in the bowl, but the conversation really took off without me in the bowl. I had sent out a few links of Extreme Programming related sites on Monday so they had a couple of days to look it over beforehand. I’m sure not everyone did, but the contributions were great.

Questions like “How can we do “insert existing process” under the new format?” really pushed the conversation into the areas that really needed to be explored. And while we didn’t resolve all the mappings there in the meeting, we certainly identified areas that we’ll need to watch for as we evolve.

I think it is an excellent way to facilitate a meeting that doesn’t have a set agenda where you want to avoid falling into presentation mode.

]]> By: Jason Meridth http://lostechies.com/chrispatterson/2007/11/16/agile-fishbowl/#comment-8 Jason Meridth Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:23:23 +0000 /blogs/chris_patterson/archive/2007/11/15/agile-fishbowl.aspx#comment-8 Did you start in the group and through adding people eventually join the audience? If so, how did the conversation persist? Did the group start clarifying amongst themselves without you driving? If you stayed up there the whole time, did the same result still occur? Great idea. May try at work to centralize some ideas amongst our development group. Did you start in the group and through adding people eventually join the audience? If so, how did the conversation persist? Did the group start clarifying amongst themselves without you driving?

If you stayed up there the whole time, did the same result still occur?

Great idea. May try at work to centralize some ideas amongst our development group.

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