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methodology documentation? What is the policy regarding how much

leeway a project has on whether they need to use or not use these

patterns?

What Is the Significance of Socializing

the Patterns?

When we say socializing the patterns, we are referring to how you get the

patterns accepted and used appropriately i n your enterprise. The intent of this

chapter is to provide some principles and suggestions that we believe have

been extremely helpful to other enterprises in socializing these patterns. The

ideas in this chapter are applicable for socializing both the patterns in this book

and the models in The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition,Volumes1

and 2 (Wiley, 2001).

The principles and recommendations discussed in this chapter may seem

like common sense; however, in our experience they are not so common! We

have seen many cases where using these principles and suggestions have

greatly helped enterprises gain much more benefits from the patterns. There

may be different levels at which these principles may be followed, and our

intent with this chapter is t o sharpen your skills in this critically important

area of human dynamics, which may have as much to do with the success

of applying these patterns as the intrinsic value and strength of the patterns

themselves.

What Is in This Chapter?

This chapter provides ...