Part II: Architecture Background

Problem Background

System Overview

This section provides a high-level summary of the system, outlining its primary purpose, core functionality, and alignment with business objectives. It describes the problem the system is intended to solve, the key stakeholders it serves, and how it fits into the broader organizational or technical ecosystem. The overview should offer sufficient context to help both technical and non-technical readers understand the system’s role and value within the business.

Goals and Context

The primary goal of the DiMeo Waste Management System is to enable and support the company’s subscription and on-demand waste export services, which are the core drivers of its revenue. All subsequent requirements, architectural design decisions, and trade-offs are made in service of this objective: to enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction in alignment with the company’s business model.

Significant Driving Requirements

This section describes behavioral and quality attribute requirements (original or derived) that shaped the software architecture. Included are any scenarios that express driving behavioral and quality attribute goals.

Quality Attribute Scenarios

The quality attribute scenarios are a way to represent architecturally-significant requirements, organized by quality attribute such as performance, security, availability, etc. Each scenario is named and includes a stimulus, source of the stimulus, environment, artifact, response measure, and response. These scenarios formalize how the system is expected to behave in response to a stimulus, what part of the system is being stimulated, under what circumstances (environment) and how the expected response is measured for the design to be considered successful.