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 Organization Unit
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|  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: | |
| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: | 

The following people use the organization unit:

| 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. | - " - | 

Organization units are established during the inception phase.

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

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.
 
 
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