Project: EAKAT

Class: Quality_Timeline

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Calender
  2. Categorized_Item
  3. Change
  4. Export_Items

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

This is the "state" of a quality. State, like the arrow of time, is a separate dimension that is critical when describing the future of something. Everything in the architecture that has an associated timeline has a future different than what is currently known to be true.

Attribute Definitions
Name Documentation Type Values Allowed Number Allowed Assumed Value
Quality_Timeline_Transitions 

These are all of the advancements for this calender.

 
Instance VTYPE Quality_Transition  0:*   
Timeline_for_Quality 

This is the quality to which a change is desired in order to address some external business pressure, thereby realizing a specified Business Driver.

 
Instance VTYPE Quality  0:1   
End_Day 

This is the day that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Day 

This is the day that the calender starts for this item.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Item_Categories 

These are all of the categories for this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Category  0:*   
Replaced_Quality_Timeline_for    Instance VTYPE Quality_Replacement  0:*   
End_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
End_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Attributes
Name Documentation Type Value
Item_Source 

This is the source for the information in this item.

 
Instance 
 
Aliases 

These are all of the other names by which this item goes.

 
Instance 
 
Modeling Value 

This is value of including this item in the Enterprise Architecture.

 
String 
The value of the Quality Timeline class is that it enables users to changes to the future of the Quality, versus trying to describe the changed Quality.
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String