Patrice Lerouge

To my knowledge, the role of moderator has never been discussed in the seriousplaypro community. I must admit I don’t necessarily read every post, though I try to. The concept of communities within communities was discussed, but not how they would function. In fact, until you mentioned it, I was unaware of a French or Spanish speaking community.…[Read more]

Eli,
I really thought that the role of the moderator was exactly to link local communities to the international one, share the community collective knowledge, and act as a bridge and connector between local and international experiences… What’s the point of the moderator otherwise?…

Good point Patrizia.
Maybe every special community that is set up should have a mediator / spokesperson / ambassador in the general community, like the role you are suggesting you would play for the Italians.

Eli,
I agree with your points about both concerns Canvas and language related groups.
I think that for the BMC it could be useful if we’d start using tags appropriately.
If participants would also take the time to use Tags, it would facilitate to keep all different applications and uses in the same main forum, but at the same time, it would make…[Read more]

Hi Marko and Macrina,
In the original vision of the community, we imagined that there would be communities within communities and as we have just seen the birth of the Italian-speaking community, this notion is alive and well.

However, when Patrizia suggested creating her Italian-speaking community, my first reaction was negative. While, I…[Read more]

I probably have some thoughts on this, but I am going into a webinar right now.

In the meantime, please change the abbreviation in the subject line from BCM to BMC!

I’ll post my thoughts when I get out of our webinar

Fair enough. After posting my message, I did think that I have something of a bee in my bonnet (try modelling that in bricks) on the general subject of quality, credibility and competence, as you may well have detected.

I didn’t intend to question any one person or group of people in particular. It’s rather the concern that word-of-mouth has its…[Read more]

Eli,

James asked for recommendations. I offered some recommendations of people I know, who are both trained LSP facilitators, and agile practitioners. I leave it up to James to determine if the people are a fit for his purposes. As he’s not said what the event is ands what precisely he’s looking for, then I trust that he can ask these people for…[Read more]

Hi Bruce,
While Jens has been closely attached to the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY community for about ten years now and both he and Katrin Elster, who is a co-organiser of Play4Agile, are certified LSP facilitators, there is no guarantee that everything that Jens and Katrin introduce to the Agile community under the brand name Strategic Play is necessarily…[Read more]

And the Italian forum is up!
Spread the voice and thank you Marko! :)

James,

if you want more direct connection with agile and LSP then these people are trained in both, and are people I know in the agile community.

Olaf Lewitz
Steven Holyer
Jens Hoffmann Jens is also half of the StrategicPlay team in Hamburg.
All of them can do what you need and work in the agile field on a daily basis and also speak and run…[Read more]

Beautiful idea!

Thank you Marko!

Well, let’s be consistent and let’s call it “Lego serious Play in Italiano”
I am happy to take the moderators role – I am not sure who else could moderate, I can start and see who engages well – or, never forget, both Lucio and Per speak Italian:)

James,

I can help you out. I’m a trained LSP facilitator, who uses this and other games with my students for teaching software development, and also in my clients in my consulting work. While I’ve not worked as a coach of a team, I am familiar with what they do from conversations and collaborating with them at agile coach camps and the ALE…[Read more]

Eli

I take your comments on board.

I see a great deal of synergy between the areas of coaching and LSP. The 4 principles from one of your links (and which I believe are part of the open source guide) have, for me, a direct correlation to some coaching models. As such I see it as having great potential for helping individuals and teams, in an…[Read more]

Thanks Eli,
I appreciate your feedback, and will take your suggestion.

thanks
Marcos

Patrizia – happy to create it. What would you like me to call it and who else besides you would I appoint as the moderator of the forum?

BTW, I’m not suggesting that you can’t or shouldn’t use LSP in an Agile project. Far from it. In fact, the more people using LSP, the merrier. My concern is related to branding and quality. How can an honest client with a certain budget ensure that his or her funds achieve the intended objectives, if there is no guarantee on what is being…[Read more]

Hi James,
You are not the first person to use Agile and LSP in the same breath. In April at a Project Management conference, I was talking with a guy who ran a one and a half hour session on LSP and Agile. What bothered me was that he had only seen “LSP” once, at another conference and instantly thought he could lecture on the subject. He…[Read more]