Improving Organizational Pattern Comprehensibility by Varying Their Form and Relationships

Based on various contexts, one can find that an organizational pattern can fit diversely in use. This is due to their naturally generalized written descriptions that allow flexible application and minor adjustments. In this study, we examine multiple ways of perceived organizational patterns variants that can be present not only as text differences but also as manners of applying them. We created a supporting tool in the form of a web portal that provides the possibility to track, manage, and depict organizational patterns, pattern languages, and their variants. The separate module recorded participants' interactions with the web portal as statistics. From the gathered statistics, we evaluated how and where the pattern variants emerge and form. The presented results show that some pattern elements are prone to produce more pattern variants than others besides pattern forms. The created web portal can serve as a community hub around organizational patterns.