“The work in using and writing patterns began with Christopher Alexander who wrote A Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language 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.”

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