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The Situation is some set of special circumstances under which the item is valid. In other words, the item is dependent on a specific situation, where the set of circumstances describes the specific situation.
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| Circumstances | These are all of the specific circumstances that define this situation. |
Instance VTYPE | Circumstance | 0:* | |
| Description | A Documented Item is an item that requires descriptive text above and beyond what the reader may gain from looking at the other attributes individually. |
String VTYPE | 0:1 | ||
| Item_Source | This is the source for the information in this item. |
Instance VTYPE | Source | 0:* | |
| Context_for | These are all of the items for which this is a Context. |
Instance VTYPE | Situational_Item | 0:* | |
| Item_Categories | These are all of the categories for this item. |
Instance VTYPE | Category | 0:* | |
| Name | This is an item that readers can identify for one another by referring to a single word, or phrase. |
String VTYPE | 1:1 | ||
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| Item_Source | This is the source for the information in this item. |
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| Aliases | These are all of the other names by which this item goes. |
Instance | Case Circumstance Context |
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| Modeling Value | This is value of including this item in the Enterprise Architecture. |
String | Very few businesses have well defined processes that work the exact same way for all their customers in all situations. Typically, business people will say something like "well, in order to accomplish this activity we will use business application X, but whenever a premium customer comes then will we will use manual process Y." In this case, the situation would include a circumstance with something like "Premium Customer." |
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| Examples | These are examples of instances of this class. |
String | Fax Orders from Middle Market Customers |
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