The Playbook Chart

The map of which Patterns compose which Plays — the forward facing of the two-layer architecture.

The Chart lists every Play beside the Patterns it invokes. Its reverse facing — each Pattern beside the Plays that call it — is held in The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language, so that a Pattern Card opens onto the operational moments it must serve. Together the two facings are not two documents but one architecture read from both directions, and as Plays and Patterns mature, both facings mature with them.

It is load-bearing because it is how the corpus is kept honest. Read down a column and you can see whether a Pattern is actually used anywhere; read across a row and you can see whether a Play rests on articulated wisdom or on nothing. A Play whose Patterns are all unwritten is a name; a Pattern that no Play invokes is a candidate for the backlog, which is what Patterns Pending Articulation exists to hold.

How it is used. Find the moment you are in, take the Play, and follow its Patterns for the depth. When you improve a Play through The LIØNSBERG Workshop, update the row. When a new Pattern enters the Language, add it where it belongs and let the Plays that should invoke it say so. Treat gaps in the Chart as information rather than embarrassment: naming the edge of the Language is part of its topology, which is what Gaps Not Yet Closed says.

Also called: Plays × Patterns · The Reverse Facing Stands on: Play · Plays Are Riffs; Patterns Are The Notes · The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language Opens onto: Pattern Card · The LIØNSBERG Workshop · Patterns Pending Articulation · Gaps Not Yet Closed · General Needs In play: Room · beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Playbook, §The Playbook Chart — Plays × Patterns (draft) · The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language, synthesized (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Playbook Open: Rows in the Chart name Patterns that have no card in the Pattern Language folder (several appear in the first rows alone), so the Chart currently over-states what is written. · Whether the Chart or the Pattern Language holds the canonical reverse facing is stated once and not enforced anywhere.