With individual teams being involved in developing distributed systems, applications will have independent project life cycles. This includes the way teams operate, for example, how they organize their sprint cycles.

The deployment cycles and schedules also emerge from the project life cycle. For the overall system to stay consistent and functional, potential dependencies on deployments of other applications need to be defined. This does not only target the application's availability.

Deployed application versions need to be compatible. In order to ensure this, applications that are dependent need to be clearly represented in the context map. Teams will have to communicate when dependent services introduce changes.

Again, painting a clear context map containing the bounded contexts helps define the interdependent applications and their responsibilities.