Artifact: Organization Unit
 Organization Unit |
An organization unit is a collection of business workers, business entities, relationships, business use-case realizations, diagrams, and other organization units. It is used to structure the business object model by dividing it into smaller parts. |
| UML representation: | Package in the business object model, either its top-level package, or stereotyped as ½organization unit╗. |
| Worker: | Business Designer |
| Optionality: | Can be excluded. |
| More information: | Checkpoints: Organization Units, Guidelines: Organization Unit |
| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: |
Purpose
The following people use the organization unit:
- The business designer uses the organization unit to group business workers and artifacts.
Properties
|
Property Name |
Brief Description |
UML Representation |
| Name | The name of the package. | The attribute "Name" on model element. |
| Brief Description | A brief description of the role and purpose of the package. | Tagged value, of type "short text". |
| Business Workers | The business workers directly contained in the package. | Owned via the aggregation "owns" |
| Business Entities | The business entities directly contained in the package. | - " - |
| Relationships | The relationships directly contained in the package. | - " - |
| Business Use-Case Realizations | The business use-case realizations directly contained in the package. | - " - |
| Diagrams | The diagrams directly contained in the package. | - " - |
| Organization Units | The packages directly contained in the package. | - " - |
Timing
Organization units are established during the inception phase.
Responsibility
A business designer is responsible for the integrity of the organization unit, ensuring that:
- They correctly reflect the structure of the organization.
Tailoring
Adjust the outline of the document to fit the project's needs. The scope and
depth of this artifact depends on the level investment the project is making
into the building a business model.
