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better documented in architectural documents or white papers), and architectural models
(even the first versions of the most important models) contain information that is not suf-
ficiently important to be called a vision component. us, architectural visions and the
first versions of the most important architectural models greatly overlap, but each contains
information that is missing from the other.
Architectural vision components tend to be at a higher level of abstraction than most parts N
of individual architectural models.
One typically should develop multiple competing architect ...