Artifact: Business Worker
 Business Worker |
A business worker is a class that represents an abstraction of a human that acts within the system. A business worker interacts with other business workers and manipulates business entities while participating in business use-case realizations. |
| UML representation: | Class, stereotyped as «business worker». |
| Worker: | Business Designer |
| Optionality: | Can be excluded. |
| Sample Reports: | Business Worker Report |
| More information: | Guideline: Business Worker |
Purpose 
The following people use the business worker:
- The business designer describes the business worker to explain a role or set of roles in the business.
- A system analyst uses the business workers as input when identifying system actors and use cases.
Properties
Property Name |
Brief Description |
UML Representation |
| Name | The name of the business worker. | The attribute "Name" on model element. |
| Brief Description | A brief description of the role and purpose of the business worker. | Tagged value, of type "short text". |
| Responsibilities | A survey of the responsibilities defined by the business worker. This may include the worker’s lifecycle, from being instantiated and populated until the job is finished. | A (predefined) tagged value on the superclass "Type". |
| Relationships | The relationships, such as generalizations, associations, and aggregations, in which the business worker participates. | Owned by an enclosing package, via the aggregation "owns". |
| Operations | The operations defined by the business worker. | Owned by the superclass "Type" via the aggregation "members". |
| Attributes | The attributes defined by the business worker. | - " - |
| Competence Requirements | A description of skills a worker needs to perform a job, as well as any other relevant information about the worker that is not mentioned elsewhere. | Tagged value, of type "short text". |
| Diagrams | Any diagrams local to the business worker, such as interaction diagrams or state diagrams. | Owned by an enclosing package, via the aggregation "owns". |
Timing
Business workers are created primarily during the elaboration phase.
Responsibility
A business designer is responsible for the integrity of the business worker, ensuring that:
- The name and brief description are explanatory.
- The responsibilities are correctly described.
- The business worker has the appropriate relationships, attributes, and operations defined to fulfill its responsibilities.
Tailoring
If you are not combining business and system models, you can use the stereotype name «worker» instead.
