Work Product (Artifact): Business Actor
A business actor represents a role played in relation to the business by someone or something in the business environment.
Purpose

The following people use the business actors:

  • business-system analysts, when defining the boundaries of the organization;
  • business designers, when describing business use cases and their interaction with business actors;
  • user-interface designers, as input to capturing characteristics on human [system] actors;
  • system analysts, as input to finding [system] actors;
Relationships
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Tailoring
Representation OptionsUML Representation: Actor, stereotyped as <<business actor>>. 

Decide which properties to use and how to use them. In particular you need to decide at which level of detail the "Characteristics" property should be described.



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