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Process-focused domain

As explained in Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure

A process-focused domain is a domain whose subdomains provide the capabilities needed to fulfill an end-to-end process or user journey.

A process-focused domain groups subdomains that provide every capability needed to fulfill an end-to-end business process or user journey. This aligns teams around shared outcomes and supports faster flow of changes across the journey. section 9.3.3

Business Property Tax

A Business Property Tax domain grouped teams responsible for process steps such as Review, Resubmit, and Renegotiate. Teams sat together, shared rituals, and worked with user researchers, making the complete process visible even when individuals owned only one step. section 9.3.3

Use the heuristic to shape an effective domain boundary:

  • Group subdomains around a key business outcome or complete user journey. section 9.3.3
  • Align teams with the journey, encourage shared rituals, and watch for capabilities common across multiple journeys. section 9.3.3

How Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure covers it

How deep it goes
Defines a grouping heuristic and illustrates it organizationally, but stops short of implementation or technology guidance.
Examples
Uses Business Property Tax teams owning Review, Resubmit, and Renegotiate as an example of journey-aligned grouping.
What you can do after
Apply it by grouping subdomains and aligning teams to optimize an end-to-end process or user experience.
How it connects
Connects domains with subdomains, end-to-end processes, user journeys, business outcomes, and team organization.
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