Session Leader: Debra Lavell, Thomas Walker

Notetaker: Thomas Walker

People in the session: Frowin, James O. Coplin, Patrick Kua

First part of the session was the summery what helps to share knowledge in the organization and what works again this processes:

• On the upper side (of the water) are the forces which helps to share knowledge / wisdom.
• On the lower side (under the water) are the forces which works against.
• In the ship of knowledge there are basic forces like shared culture, Oval culture, shared values, sense,

List of forces that helps to share knowledge:

• self organized communities to decide which patterns are in their domain
• enable pattern writting
• Community of Trust
• Printed Paper
• Story Telling
• Feeling to be “Elite”
• Promotion of Knowledge
• make search easy
• ... like google
• Writer Workshops for Pattern Communities
• role of coach –> People from other projects helps people to find their own solutions
• The dedicated to distilling knowledge
• Well - defined process
• Build it in the process
• Pull from “Stakeholders” for the learnings
• structure / framework
• human sacrifice
• Colocation ?
• Connect to read examples? - and people ...
• Dynamic Learnings - Stakeholders “add” new learnings to insights

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Forces against:

• Technique
• Tools (Tool Orientation instead human / systems orientation)
• Authority imbalanced
• Expert thinking (we know how it work)
• Egos
• fear to be blamed
• Anonymity
• Wikis / DB’s not used as we want
• Apples and Oranges
• Using Patterns outside of community
• Something other than 2 pages per pattern
• Failures
• Insights don’t get updated and stakeholders don’t find value

Second part: Deb shows the knowledge Database. We discussed about it and new insights came out. - Thank to all (even later on the lunch table) that helps to get in the next step.