Potential Pattern Titles

Some of these may be patterns; others may be pattern ideas. Take these and see if you can develop a proven DRAFT pattern or a pattern idea out of them.

• Appeal to the four personas: Killer (risk of rockstar culture), social aspect, explorer, heart (care bear) – core gamification personas
• Explicitly recognizing cross training – the more you can teach, the more value you bring
• Pull request culture
• Silo pyro
• Teach the obsessive-compulsive person (introduce small errors)
• There’s no I in code
• Open source is people; Inner source is people!
• You are what you measure
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast
• Fortune favors the bold (Be Bold is the motto of Wikipedia; you have to have the courage to do this)
• What got you here won’t get you anything different.
• Crafted code over cowboy code
• Actionable documentation
• Encourage apprenticeship model
• Seed money
• Cheese interface
• Edges in is easier than center out (for first implementation)
• 10% Trusted Committership
• Trusted Committers should have a dedicated sprint (dedicated job)
• Creating a rockstar culture (depends on the culture)
• Break the hierarchy (don’t do what your boss told you to do)
• Create a compassionate culture (make it safe for people to disagree)
• Anti-patterns: avoid wizard hell
• It’s not your code
• Developers scratch your own itch
• When work gives you a rash, scratch it
• Come for the code, stay for the community—I’m a part of a club I want to be in
• Shirtify (given to core committers; visibility inside the company); or Swagify
• 100% Community Leader (works on the project full time)
• Stop escalation (deflect the Cheese); escalation intervention; Cutting the cheese cycle
• Go outside to win inside
• Extrinsic rewards
• Trusted Committers
• Dedicated facilitation
• Share your work to get more done
  • Donut Share Your Code, Get More Done
• Free electrons (create a space for people to work outside of their organizations (outside of the other forces))
• Mentorship raises all ships
• Mimicking enlightened self interest (Eric Raymond quote: nobody does everything for free; they’re getting something from it, including interesting work when their day job is boring)