CHAPTER   20

Extension Viewpoints

In Chapter 1 we introduced the concept of viewpoints. Viewpoints are frames of reference for a particular group of stakeholders in terms of what they want to see in the enterprise architecture. These stakeholders are driven by their own concerns and vocabularies and the architecture scope from their vantage points. Within these viewpoints are views, each of which addresses a subset of the concerns of the stakeholder.

The architecture frameworks we have reviewed in this book all support the concept of a core set of viewpoints and views that are recommended and standardized by the framework specifications. This core set of viewpoints may be considered in general for all architecture-related concerns and is underlain ...

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