Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint

The Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that describe the business processes showing how they relate to each other and also with their environment.  This includes relationships with Business Services and Business Objects and the Roles and Actors that perform the processes or who are affected by them.

Figure 1. Shows a Business Layer Diagram with a composite activity that contains three child Activities. A number of other elements have been related to the Processes.

Figure 2. Shows the Project Browser and the location of elements that are grouped into packages by their type.

Discussion
To provide a designing view for process and domain architects, operational managers and others who are concerned with aspects such as dependencies between business processes, consistency and completeness, responsibilities.

It can be used to visualize a high-level design of business processes within their context and to provide a view of  processes dependencies and relationship with other elements that will assist stakeholders such as operation managers and process analysis teams.

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the diagram to suit the initiative.
Change the name of the Processes, Business Objects, Business Events, Business Services and other elements to suit the initiative.
Create Additional Processes, Business Objects, Business Evens, Business Services and other elements to suit the initiative.
·	Create additional relationships as needed.

The following is a list of next steps you may want to perform after working with this pattern.
·	Relate the Processes to other elements in the Model including: Capabilities and Application level elements.
Use the Relationship Matrix to visualize relationships.
Use the collaboration tools such as Discussions, Chat and Reviews to engage other modelers.
Generate documentation of the model and diagram using the automatic document generator. 
Create Maintenance Items such as Issues, Decisions, Changes and Tasks  as required.

Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Archimate Technology
Diagram Layout
Baselines
Maintenance Items
Tools you may find useful
The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic or the more general topic on Model Publishing.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with the Components and Interfaces particularly when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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