Patterns for Change

There is another category of Patterns than those used for the development of software. These are Patterns for Change. They are used for the installation, management and the durability of a project that it is within a firm, an organization or simply in the common life. These Patterns can be divided into four themes:

            - Throughout
            - Early
            - Later
            - Resistance

To learn it, we organized an exercise where we had to manage a transfer of a department within the university. So with the aid of post-it, we established, individually, patterns that we have to follow to achieve the project. Then, we confronted our patterns and our opinions.

I find that these patterns are very useful because they allow to supervise a plan by managing the project during all its life cycle. On top of that, they often give us ideas of methods that we even had not imagined before.

After the lecture, I do some researches on the web to give information on Patterns for Change but I found quite no website which dealt with it, I think that it is going to be necessary to turn to books! :)