Fearless Change Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

Acknowledgments

The creation of a pattern language should be the work of a community. We agree with Christopher Alexander, who states “…many of the people who read, and use this language, will try to improve these patterns—will put their energy to work, in this task of finding more true, more profound invariants—and we hope that gradually these more true patterns, which are slowly discovered, as times goes on, will enter a common language, which all of us can share.”^[*]

Many people have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the development of this language. These include the pattern originators, the “shepherds” who helped us improve our work at the Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conferences, those who attended the writers’ workshops, ...