Glossary

Cardinality

A rule defining how many instances of one object may or must relate to another. It is not a modelling technicality: it encodes business decisions, such as every offering executing exactly one…

A rule defining how many instances of one object may or must relate to another. It is not a modelling technicality: it encodes business decisions, such as every offering executing exactly one process, or every process having a single owner.

Every cardinality is a business decision dressed as notation. Deciding that a process must deliver at least one service is not a technical detail: it declares that processes serving nobody are not allowed.