In Chap. 7, the notion of ‘viewpoint’ will be discussed in depth. A viewpoint
takes a specific perspective of a system. The concept of viewpoint is, however,
not synonymous with perspective as the former includes some additional items,
such as the modelling language that is to be used to describe the system from the
given perspective. In contrast, a perspective is purely ‘topical’.
– Scope: Given a domain, such as a system or a development project, we can
identify several scopes when approaching the domain: enterprise-wide,
department-specific, task-specific, etc.
– Design chain: When considering the design of some artefact, a distinction can
be made between: