Accountability

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Accountability is an [[Analysis patterns|analysis pattern]] which models any situation in which accounting or money/time/resources is required. The basic principle is that events in the real world have to logged and accounted for in some way. However, this gets tricky when you consider that some events can be revoked / amended at a later date.
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Accountability (also named "Organization Structures" in Fowler's updated version) is an [[Analysis patterns|analysis pattern]] that models employment, contracts, organisation hierarchies, and other issues that arise when one person or organisation is responsible to another.
  
[[Martin Fowler]] writes extensively about this analysis pattern in http://www.martinfowler.com/apsupp/accounting.pdf.
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This analysis pattern covers the modelling of ''parties'' (which represent entities such as people and organisations), ''organization structure'', ''accountability'' relationships between parties in the hierarchy, ''knowledge levels'', and ''operating scopes''.
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[[Martin Fowler]] writes extensively about this analysis pattern in http://www.martinfowler.com/apsupp/accountability.pdf (which can be considered an update to the second chapter from [[Martin Fowler 1997]]).
  
 
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Revision as of 23:47, 17 October 2010

Accountability (also named "Organization Structures" in Fowler's updated version) is an analysis pattern that models employment, contracts, organisation hierarchies, and other issues that arise when one person or organisation is responsible to another.

This analysis pattern covers the modelling of parties (which represent entities such as people and organisations), organization structure, accountability relationships between parties in the hierarchy, knowledge levels, and operating scopes.

Martin Fowler writes extensively about this analysis pattern in http://www.martinfowler.com/apsupp/accountability.pdf (which can be considered an update to the second chapter from Martin Fowler 1997).

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