Certain facets of Open Space Technology are used for creating and transforming high performing teams, and this can apply to lean facilitation as well:
- Once, when facilitating a value stream mapping team, we were called out of the room to participate in a survey.
- Thinking this would likely end in disaster, an hour later the team had proved that thinking to be totally flawed.
- The team had gone through the Storming stage and was already Norming! We could not believe how quickly the transfer of ownership moved from the facilitator to the Team, and how well the team took charge of their own progress.
- From that point on, we used this method each time a new team starts to create a value stream map.
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Sustaining Lean 