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Architecture Building Block

The Infatuation with “Building Blocks”

April 13, 2015 by Ivo Velitchkov

Why the majority of Enterprise Architects are in love with the concept of “building block”. Perhaps because blocks don’t answer back and spoil the design, Aiden Ward suggested. In TOGAF 9.1 “building block” is used 349 times, not counting the separate use of ABB and SBB acronyms. There is a whole chapter devoted to building […]

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