An ideal situation

Time: 25 minutes

Background

Imagine again that you all are living and working in Middletown municipality, but in an alternate universe. This Middletown is also of decent size, not too small, but also not one of the biggest.

Together with three other municipalities you have developed an open source IT system. It is a festival managing system. You use it for managing festivals taking place in your respective municipalities. It is in use since two years. The main end users of the system are civil servants in your municipality.

You all have competent but small IT departments with some inhouse developers. As commissioning public organizations you have outsourced most of the work to multiple developer vendors.

Each of you have a separate deployment of the system.

In this universe you have already established a collaboration with the Foundation for Public Code.

Exercise

Try to map out how you want to maintain the system. That is, try to place the involved actors and show what is happening between them. Feel free to invent new actors that did not exist in the first exercise.

Use the available icons and arrows to show the relationships between all actors. Specify the relations are and how decisions are being made. Write on the arrows to make clear what they mean. You are encouraged to write on the icons to help you distinguish them better. If you need more icons or arrows, ask.