Artifact: Business Actor

A business actor represents a role played in relation to the business by someone or something in the business environment.

Work Product Kinds: Model Element

Purpose

The following people use the business actors:

business-system analysts, when defining the boundaries of the organization;
business designers, when describing business use cases and their interaction with business actors;
user-interface designers, as input to capturing characteristics on human [system] actors;
system analysts, as input to finding [system] actors;

Relationships

Container Artifact	Business Use Case Model
Roles	Responsible: Business Designer	Modified By: Business-Process Analyst
Tasks	Input To: Refine a Business Use-Case	Output From: Find Business Actors and Use Cases Refine a Business Use-Case Structure the Business Use-Case Model

Illustrations

Reports	Business Actor

Tailoring

Representation Options

UML Representation: Actor, stereotyped as <<business actor>>.

Decide which properties to use and how to use them. In particular you need to decide at which level of detail the "Characteristics" property should be described.

More Information

Checklists	Business Actor
Guidelines	Business Actor