Stigmergy

I discovered this word  Stigmergy leaving information in the environment to help/stimulate the performance of another actor/agent.  


"Stigmergy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: In addition the concept of stigmergy has also been used to describe how cooperative work such as building design may be integrated. Designing a large contemporary building involves a large and diverse network of actors (e.g. architects, building engineers, static engineers, building services engineers and etc.). Their distributed activities may be partly integrated through practices of stigmergy." 

I think this means that building a physical model and using plans helps the various actors coordinate the assorted constraints. 


So from a software engineering point of view the problem is that the various stakeholders don't have a unified environment where information can be deposited. Each uses their own separate specific description (UML, wireframes) and cannot leave annotaions.   

1. Christensen, L. R. (2007). Practices of stigmergy in architectural work. In Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM Conference on Conference on Supporting Group Work (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, November 04–07, 2007). GROUP 2007. ACM, New York, NY, 11-20.
2. ^ Christensen, L. R. (2008). The Logic of Practices of Stigmergy: Representational Artifacts in Architectural Design. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (San Diego, CA, USA, November 8–12, 2008). CSCW '08. ACM, New York, NY, 559-568
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