3.1 Business Context

Content

Specification of all communication partners (users, IT-systems, …) with explanations of domain specific inputs and outputs or interfaces. Optionally you can add domain specific formats or communication protocols.

Motivation

All stakeholders should understand which data are exchanged with the environment of the system.

Form

All kinds of diagrams that show the system as a black box and specify the domain interfaces to communiations partners.

Alternatively (or additionally) you can use a table. The title of the table is the name of your system, the three columns contain the name of the communication partner, the inputs, and the outputs.

Examples

• Example Business Context: HTML Sanity Checker
• Example Business Context: MaMa
• Example Business Context: TrafficPursuitUnit

insert diagram or table

(optionally:) insert explanation of external domain interfaces