Building Blocks - Overview

This whole section is intended to explain and illustrate the concept of building blocks in architecture.

Following this Overview, there are three main parts to the section.

• The first part, Introduction to Building Blocks, discusses the general concepts of building blocks, and explains the differences between Architectural and Solution Building Blocks.

• The second, Building Blocks and the ADM, summarises the stages at which building block design and specification occurs within the TOGAF Architecture Development Method.

• The third part, Building Blocks Example, comprises a series of separate subsections that together provide a detailed worked example showing how building block context is captured, how building blocks are identified, and how building blocks are defined when executing the major steps of the Architecture Development Method.

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