Self-assessment tasks

1. The concept of a concern was introduced as a need that relates specifically to a framework or viewpoint definition. Revisit Figure 6.6 and add on the concept of concern.
2. Consider a set of stakeholders that is specific to your organization and capture these in a Context Definition View.
3. Choose a single need that relates to any project that you are familiar with and describe it using text by creating a Need Description View.
4. Based on your answers to questions 1 and 2, take your need description and consider it from three or four different stakeholders' points of view. For each, create a Need Context View.
5. Choose any use case from the Need Context Views and define some validation views. Try out performance-based scenarios and operational scenarios. Now compare and contrast each scenario.
6. There is an inconsistency in Figure 6.31 as an ontology relationship has been omitted from the diagram. Check each ontology element and its relationships...