Type: Research Project
Editorial status: Active
Epistemic status: Exploratory
Evidence scope: Literature, cases, structured claims, counterexamples
Last reviewed: 2026-09-16 — AI-assisted editorial check
Human reviewed: Human content-review pending for this revision
Working Patterns studies organisational practices without assuming that a practice becomes universally good because it has a familiar name.
Its central question is:
What seems to help, for which problem, through which mechanism, under which conditions — and where does it fail?
The research chain is:
problem → intervention → implementation → outcome → evidence → conditions
A group saying “we use consensus” does not tell us what happened.
A team saying “we run retrospectives” does not tell us whether:
Adoption is not implementation.
Implementation is not success.
One positive outcome is not overall success.
The first cycle examines:
Working Patterns also maintains AI-related research candidates such as:
These are research questions, not validated patterns.
That distinction is essential.
Official repository:
https://github.com/pyragogy/working-patterns
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