Although DoDAF 2.0 takes a data centric approach to how it captures architectures and
the elements and relationships that represent them it still uses viewpoints and views
to capture and represent aspects of the architecture information.
DoDAF 2.0 consists of 8 Viewpoints (groups of views) to capture various aspects of
the architecture. The viewpoints contain 52 views (variously described as models,
products, reports or diagrams) on which information is either created or displayed
depending on whether you are a reviewer or an architect.
It is not neccassary for an architecture to use all the views or even at the same
level of detail. This is entirely dependent upon the intended use of the
architecture. In this instance two distinct workflows have been identified, a
planning/strategic workflow for enterprise architecture and a systems specification
workflow for solution architeture.
The content of this practice was developed from understanding the views, the
elements that appear on the views and the relationships that exist between the
elements. This has led to a tool independent model based workflow based on systems
engineering best practices for the development of solution architecture. The back
ground to this workflow developement can be seen in DoDAF 2.0 - Overview
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