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    • Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development
      • Book Outline
        • Preface
        • History and Introduction
          • An Overview of Patterns and Organizational Patterns
          • What Are Patterns?
          • What Are Pattern Languages?
          • Organizational Pattern Languages
          • How the Patterns Came to Us
          • Gathering Organizational Data
          • Creating Sequences
          • History and Related Work
          • Introspection and Analysis of Organizations
          • Shortcomings of State of the Art
          • Analyzing Roles and Relationships
          • How to Use this Book
          • Reading the Patterns
          • Applying the Patterns
          • Updating the Patterns
          • Who Should Use This Book?
          • Size the Organization
          • The CRC-Card Methodology
        • The Pattern Languages
        • Organizational Design Patterns
          • Project Management Pattern Language
          • Community of Trust
          • Size the Schedule
          • Get On With It
          • Named Stable Bases
          • Incremental Integration
          • Private World
          • Build Prototypes
          • Take No Small Slips
          • Completion Headroom
          • Work Split
          • Recommitment Meeting
          • Work Queue
          • Informal Labor Plan
          • Development Episode
          • Implied Requirements
          • Developer Controls Process
          • Work Flows Inward
          • Programming Episode
          • Someone Always Makes Progress
          • Team per Task
          • Sacrifice One Person
          • Day Care
          • Mercenary Analyst
          • Interrupts Unjam Blocking
          • Don't Interrupt an Interrupt'
          • Piecemeal Growth Pattern Language
          • Size the Organization
          • Phasing It In
          • Apprenticeship
          • Solo Virtuoso
          • Engage Customers
          • Surrogate Customer
          • Scenarios Define Problem
          • Firewalls
          • Gatekeeper
          • Self-Selecting Team
          • Unity of Purpose
          • Team Pride
          • Skunkworks
          • Patron Role
          • Diverse Groups
          • Public Character
          • Matron Role
          • Holistic Diversity
          • Legend Role
          • Wise Fool
          • Domain Expertise in Roles
          • Subsystem by Skill
          • Moderate Truck Number
          • Compensate Success
          • Failed Project Wake
          • Developing in Pairs
          • Developing in Pairs
          • Engage Quality Assurance
          • Application Design is Bounded by Test Design
          • Group Validation
        • Organization Construction Patterns
          • Organizational Style Pattern Language
          • Few Roles
          • Producer Roles
          • Producers in the Middle
          • Stable Roles
          • Divide and Conquer
          • Conway's Law
          • Organization Follows Location
          • Organization Follows Market
          • Face-to-Face Before Working Remotely
          • Form Follows Function
          • Shaping Circulation Realms
          • Distribute Work Evenly
          • Responsibilities Engage
          • Hallway Chatter
          • Decouple Stages
          • Hub Spoke and Rim
          • Move Responsibilities
          • Upside-Down Matrix Management
          • The Water Cooler
          • Three to Seven Helpers per Role
          • Coupling Decreases Latency
          • People and Code Pattern Language
          • Architect Controls Product
          • Architecture Team
          • Lock 'Em Up Together
          • Smoke Filled Room
          • Stand Up Meeting
          • Deploy Along the Grain
          • Architect Also Implements
          • Generics and Specifics
          • Standards Linking Locations
          • Code Ownership
          • Feature Assignment
          • Variation Behind Interface
          • Private Versioning
          • Loose Interfaces
          • Subclass Per Team
          • Hierarchy of Factories
          • Parser Builder
        • Foundations and History
          • Organizational Principles
          • Priming the Organization for Change
          • Dissonance Precedes Resolution
          • Team Burnout
          • Stability and Crisis Management
          • The Open-Closed Principle of Teams
          • Team Building
          • Building on the Solid Core
          • Piecemeal Growth
          • Some General Rules
          • Make Love Not War
          • Organizational Patterns are Inspiration Rather Than Prescription
          • It Depends on Your Role in Your Organization
          • It Depends on the Context of the Organization
          • Organizational Patterns are Used by Groups Rather Than Individuals
          • People are Less Predictable than Code
          • The Role of Management
          • Anthropological Foundations
          • Patterns in Anthropology
          • Beyond Process to Structure and Values
          • Roles and Communication
          • Social Network Analysis
          • Distilling the Patterns
          • CRC Cards and Roles
          • Social Network Theory Foundations
          • Scatterplots and Patterns
        • Case Studies
          • Borland QuattroPro for Windows
          • A Hyperproductive Telecommunications Development Team
      • Appendices
        • Summary Patlets
        • Organization Book Patlets
        • Bibliography
        • Photo Credits
      • Mysteriously Missing
      • Supporting Pages
        • Common Pattern Language
        • Organizational Patterns
        • Diversity of Membership
        • Parking Lot
        • IndentationHint
        • Starting Points
          • Project Index
        • OrganizationBookPatternTable
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  • CommonPatternLanguage

    • By pattern language:

      • EpisodesPatternLanguage (WardCunningham)

      • CoplienOrganizationPatterns (JimCoplien)

      • CaterpillarsFatePatternLanguage (NormKerth?)

      • RappelPatternLanguage (BruceWhitenack)

      • OrganizationalMultiplexingPatternLanguage (SteveBerczuk)

      • ConfigurationManagementPatterns (SteveBerczuk)

      • BPRPatternLanguage (MichaelBeedle)

      • SocialIssuesAndSoftwareArchitecture (AlistairCockburn)

      • OrganizationDiagnosticPatternLanguage (AlistairCockburn)

      • LifeCycleAndRefactoringPatternsThatSupportEvolutionAndReuse (BrianFoote? and WilliamOpdyke?)

      • PatternsOfIdealWorkspace (ChristopherAlexander? -- TomDeMarco? and TimothyLister?)

      • HarrisonPatterns (NeilHarrison)

    • By topic:

      • TestingPatterns?

  • ConfigurationAndChangeManagement

  • New taxonomies:

  • UrvashiKaulsTaxonomy

  • JamesCusikTaxonomy

    • PatLet!FrontPage (the industry patlet site)

  • Discussion areas to capture experience:

  • ResourceManagementStories

  • StoriesAboutFindingSuitablePeople

  • PatternsToBeCatalogued

  • DiversityExperiments

  • OrganizationPatternTalks

  • EthnoGraphicsTools

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