Accountability

This article covers the analysis pattern. For the military undertaking of the same name, see Operation Responsibility .

Accountability

Accountability ( responsibility ) is an analysis model in the software development . The accountability pattern maps the responsibilities of different people, organizational units, roles, etc. in an organization, taking time or other restrictions into account.

The accountability pattern should be combined with the party analysis pattern in order to be able to map a wide range of possible parties. Accountability can also be expanded or combined with Organization Structure or Organization Hierachy in order to be able to map the responsibilities of the respective organizational units in a company.

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1. ^ Martin Fowler : Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models . Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-89542-0 (English).