Let’s describe the framework’s principles and how it works before adding more details on why you should use it or who this framework is intended for. Then, you’ll learn how it solves common problems in IT organizations better.
The MoSy framework is built on top of five elements that are present in every technical system:
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Actors: Who interacts with the system?
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Flows and Actions: What activities do these actors perform?
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System Entities: What elements do the actions create, consume, or modify?
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Key Objectives and Metrics: Why do the actors perform the actions? What are they trying to achieve? And regarding your system, how do you know you achieved your goals?
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Technical Components: How does the system technically look? How do components interact, and how do they relate to actions and entities?
Breaking a system down into these five parts gives us a good starting point. When we look at how these parts work together, we get an even better picture of the system. That’s what the framework diagrams will help us accomplish.
The first step in designing or illustrating an existing system is to create the High-Level System View, which incorporates Actors, Flows, and Key Objectives. The next chapter will introduce these fundamentals.
After that, we’ll dive into each actor sequence defined in the high-level system view to create Flow Diagrams and integrate System Entities, Metrics, and Technical components into the mix.