Context Mapping / Documentation Overhead

Kind: tension

Record: tension:context-mapping-documentation-overhead

Canonical: Schema

"context-mapping" (domain-modeling layer) is traded against "Documentation Overhead" (domain-modeling layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Documentation Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Bounded Context / Cross-Context Reuse and before Anti-Corruption Layer / Mapping Overhead.

In tension with

• Context Mapping
• Documentation Overhead

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Domain Architecture
• Resolution mechanisms