{"id":1757,"date":"2015-05-29T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:57:00","slug":"invisible-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/invisible-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible but Undeniable Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very fun to discover that an event I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/06\/16\/scrum\/\">facilitated<\/a>, the Open Space portion of the 2008 Scrum Alliance conference here in Chicago, had a big impact.  <\/p>\n<p>I just recently met someone who was among 200+ participants.  After that event, he and two colleagues went back to their organization and ran a 2-day Open Space to <a href=\"http:\/\/agilerealms.net\/scrummybears\/?p=31\" target=\"_blank\">save the day<\/a> for a large software development project. What they did seems a textbook-perfect application of Open Space.  But it&#8217;s just crazy lucky that I got to hear about it, for the first time, seven years later!  <\/p>\n<p>This sort of invisible impact highlights why it&#8217;s so hard to &#8220;track,&#8221; in conventional ways and terms, the value of Open Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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+ participants. After that event, he and two colleagues went back to their organization and ran a 2-day Open Space to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/invisible-impact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Invisible but Undeniable Impact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,8,2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-conference-reports","category-open-space-technology","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}