Background and Introduction
Who should read this MODAF documentation?
The following diagram illustrates the intended users and uses for the information provided on this web site:
The primary audience for the information on this MODAF web site comprises:
- Enterprise Architects and Enterprise Managers, the principal customers for MODAF views, who need to both correctly interpret standard MODAF views provided to them and to specify and control the tasks required to create new views
- Architectural modellers who need guidance on the creation and interchange of MODAF views (including for example: architecting principles, view coherence rules and tool selection criteria)
- Tool developers and engineers who are implementing architectural data repositories for storing and manipulating MODAF Architecture data elements
- Trainers and educators who require reference material in order to appropriately train and support the previous types of MODAF users
- MODAF users who wish to contribute to the development of MODAF.
Other readers with an interest in MODAF should also find what they are looking for on this web site, but may not need to read all of the material provided – for example, they may wish to confine their reading to just the introductory sections, or to the introductory sections plus the overview parts of the view descriptions.
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