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Core Concepts - Deliverables, artifacts and building blocks

4 important questions on Core Concepts - Deliverables, artifacts and building blocks

Which three categories describe the type of architectural work product?

Deliverables,
Artifacts, and
Building Blocks

What is a building block?

represents a (potentially re-usable) component of enterprise capability combined with other building blocks to deliver architectures and solutions

can be defined at various levels of detail, depending on what stage of architecture development has been reached. For instance, at an early stage, a building block can simply consist of a name or an outline description. Later on, a building block may be decomposed into multiple supporting building blocks and may be accompanied by a full specification.

Building blocks can relate to "architectures" or "solutions".

What is a Architecture Building Block (ABB)?

describe required capability and the specification of Solution Building Blocks (SBBs);

for example, a customer services capability may be required within an enterprise, supported by many SBBs, ' as processes, data, and application software

What is a Solution Building Block (SBB)?

represent components that will be used to implement the required capability;

for example, a network is a building block that be described through complementary artifacts and then put to use to realize for the enterprise