05 — Glossary · Practice & Governance
Viewpoint
GL-650 · also Architecture Viewpoint
A convention for building one kind of architecture view, naming the stakeholders and concerns it serves and the model types and notation it uses.
A viewpoint is the template; a view is what you get when you apply it to a specific system. Pick viewpoints by the questions a stakeholder is asking.
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7) ↗
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