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 «organization unit».
Role:	Business Designer
Optionality:	Can be excluded.
More information:	Guidelines:Organization Unit Checkpoints:Organization Unit
Purpose Properties Timing Responsibility Tailoring

Input to Activities:

Review the Business Object Model

Output from Activities:

Detail a Business Worker

Detail a Business Entity

Purpose

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

Responsibility

A business designer is responsible for the integrity of the organization unit, ensuring that:

Tailoring

Adjust the outline of the document to fit the project's needs. The scope and depth of this artifact depends on the level of investment the project is making into building a business model.