Candidate Pattern: This reminds me of ...

Summary	Provoke collaborative reflection on a case story or scenario by asking peers to suggest similar stories.
Status	seed	Confidence	0
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Problem

Case-stories of successful practice form the basis for identifying patterns but these need to be gathered in sufficient quantity to fulfill the 'Rule of Three'. This requires that three examples of practice support any pattern that is developed to a release state.

Context

This pattern originates from the Participatory Pattern Workshops?, but is also relevant in other situations where a group of practitioners are engaged in an on-site (co-located) collaborative reflection around case-stories of successful practice. It works best within group sizes of three to five members but this is not a requirement. This pattern also forms a subset of the Three Hats pattern for interrogating case-story narratives.

Solution

During the Collaborative reflection workshop ensure that the format gives time and space to eliciting related stories during the discussion of individual cases. For example during the use of the Three Hats pattern. These stories can be invoked formally by singling out individual group members or informally by letting them emerge spontaneously during the group discussions. The key is to ensure that these related stories are captured in a relevant format to be referenced later. This can be successfully achieved by assigning the role of scribe to one of the group members and using either an electronic or paper-based template. All of these emergent stories should undergo similar scrutiny to the main case-story or stories that are under discussion.

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