Collaborative Work

Roles: collaborator, facilitator, task, artifact, proposal, review, decision, consensus

Work done by multiple people toward a shared goal. Encompasses meetings, code reviews, pair programming, design sessions, and any context where individual contributions must be integrated. Fertile target domain for metaphors because collaborative work is inherently social — power dynamics, communication breakdowns, and coordination costs are always present.

As Source Frame (2)

• AI Is a Pair Programmer → artificial-intelligence
• Barn-Raising → software-engineering, social-dynamics

Applied To This Frame (12)

• architecture-and-building → Bikeshedding
• natural-phenomena → Boil the Ocean
• social-behavior → Drinking the Kool-Aid
• social-behavior → Fear-Driven Development
• food-and-cooking → Hands
• economics → Labor Is a Resource
• improvisation → Offers and Blocks
• social-behavior → Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary
• animal-behavior → Raptor Pit
• military-command → Skunkworks
• folklore → Stone Soup
• improvisation → Yes, And