Fear Less - And other Patterns for Introducing New Ideas into Organizations

The work in using and writing patterns began with Christopher Alexander who wrote A Timeless Way of Building [Alexander79] and A Pattern Language [Alexander+77] in the 1970s. When the software community began studying his ideas, interest in patterns began to spread throughout the software development industry in the 1990s. However, efforts to introduce patterns into organizations have had mixed success. The patterns presented here are the beginning of a pattern language whose focus is the introduction of a new idea into an organization. When the language was begun, the focus was on introducing patterns into an organization but over the years, we have come to realize that most of the patterns can be used for introducing most any new idea. The contributors are from organizations all over the world. We have found a close connection between our experiences, which is reflected in the patterns we have written.