Information Technology Reference
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About Part II
This part introduces the five ODP viewpoints one after an-
other. In its final chapter, it then explains how the family of
viewpoints is bound together into a coherent whole by estab-
lishing a set of correspondences between terms in the different
viewpoints.
Although a book imposes a linear structure, and its se-
quence could be read as a journey from requirements to imple-
mentation, this structure is not intended to suggest any partic-
ular design methodology. The development of the viewpoints
is best seen as consisting of a set of concurrent but interacting
design processes.
Each chapter explains the concepts most central to the view-
point concerned, and then illustrates their use by working
through elements from the running example. Finally, there
is some guidance on how the viewpoint specification might be
structured and the way in which it relates to the other view-
points.
