Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map

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EVENTS AND TIMING

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.

—UNKNOWN

When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.

—HENRY FORD

THE EVENTS AND TIMING COLUMN

The Activities column of the architecture framework is concerned with when the enterprise carries out its work.

– The planner lays out annual and longer-term plans and schedules.

– The business owner sees the business event types that control what a business does.

– The architect sees the system event types that control the processing of data.

– The designer defines program event types to cause specific program activities.

– The builder is concerned with the detailed programming required to respond ...