Context mapping patterns
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In this lesson
describe relationships between contexts using standard patterns.
Planned topics
- Partnership: two teams succeed or fail together and coordinate changes.
- Customer–supplier: the downstream team's needs influence the upstream plan.
- Conformist: downstream accepts the upstream model as is, with no influence.
- Open host service and published language: upstream offers a stable, documented interface and shared format.
- A context map shows the real relationships, including the uncomfortable ones.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a context map sketch: Marketplace Listings customer of Catalog, conformist to a carrier API, publishing an order-events language used by Finance.
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What does a conformist relationship mean?
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Downstream adopts the upstream model without influence.
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