Strategic design and principles

An enterprise model is usually very large and complex. It may be distributed among different departments in an organization. Each department may have a separate leadership team, so working and designing together can create difficulty and coordination issues. In such scenarios, maintaining the integrity of the domain model is not an easy task.

In such cases, working on a unified model is not the solution, and large enterprise models need to be pided into different submodels. These submodels contain the predefined accurate relationship and contract in minute detail. Each submodel has to maintain the defined contracts without any exception.

There are various principles that could be followed to maintain the integrity of the domain model, and these are listed as follows:

• Bounded context
• Continuous integration
• Context map
  • Shared kernel
  • Customer-supplier
  • Conformist
  • Anticorruption layer
  • Separate ways
  • Open Host Service
  • Distillation