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What do experienced enterprise designers and architects do differently when their work actually makes a difference? That question is at the heart of the Enterprise Design Patterns, and of this newsletter.

35 patterns for making Enterprise Design work
The Enterprise Design Patterns capture what experienced practitioners have learned about making Enterprise Design work in real organisations: 35 patterns in four categories, from building influence and trust to dealing with corporate politics. Each pattern follows the same logic: the context it applies to, the problem that typically arises there, what you can do about it, and what changes as a result. All of them are open and free to use on enterprise.design.

A free webinar about patterns: Why Transformations Drift

A sound design doesn’t guarantee a sound result. Often, intent gets lost not in the design, but in how it’s taken up. In our free live webinar on October 28 at 10am CET, Bard Papegaaij and Helgi Björgvinsson walk through eleven patterns that shape this: from building trust before the design exists to handing over your intent without it dissolving. And if you have a design that got watered down along the way, bring it: We'll pick two, diagnose them live and name the patterns that were missing.