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Module 1: NAF 4.0 foundations and architecture purpose
- Why architecture models are used in complex systems and capability planning
- Core NAF 4.0 concepts stakeholders, concerns, viewpoints, and views
- Relationship between architecture descriptions, decisions, and lifecycle support
- Position of NAF 4.0 as a standardized framework for developing architecture artifacts
Module 2: Understanding the NAF grid and modeling logic
- Subjects of concern and aspects of concern in the NAF structure
- How the framework organizes viewpoint selection rather than forcing a fixed set
- Reading the purpose of a viewpoint before reading its notation
- Distinguishing architecture content from notation and tool specific implementation
Module 3: Stakeholders, concerns, and architectural communication
- Matching architecture content to stakeholder questions
- Choosing views that support explanation, coordination, and analysis
- Understanding the difference between model purpose and model detail
- Building confidence in reading viewpoint based architecture descriptions
Module 4: Notation by example across common viewpoints
- How to approach a viewpoint through its intent and information content
- Interpreting typical relationships and elements through guided examples
- Distinguishing capability, operational, service, system, and technical concerns
- Using examples to reduce dependence on prior UML or SysML knowledge
Module 5: Capability and operational viewpoints
- Modeling capability needs and operational context
- Representing activities, performers, and information exchanges
- Relating operational needs to broader architectural structure
- Common patterns for clear operational descriptions
Module 6: Service and system viewpoints
- Modeling services, systems, resources, and interfaces
- Understanding how service and system views complement operational concerns
- Structuring dependency and interface descriptions clearly
- Avoiding duplication and ambiguity between closely related views
Module 7: Technical and standards related viewpoints
- Representing standards, constraints, and technical guidance
- Linking technical concerns to interoperability and design choices
- Understanding how technical viewpoints support coherent architecture decisions
- Reading technical viewpoints without overloading them with implementation detail
Module 8: Cross viewpoint consistency and traceability
- Checking consistency across capability, operational, service, system, and technical views
- Tracing stakeholder concerns into model content
- Identifying gaps, overlaps, and conflicting descriptions
- Practical review criteria for understandable and decision ready architectures
Module 9: Selecting viewpoints for a real architecture question
- Starting from the question, not from the full framework
- Choosing a manageable viewpoint set for analysis and communication
- Balancing completeness, readability, and modeling effort
- Defining scope and abstraction level before modeling begins
Module 10: Building a coherent architecture package
- Moving from concern to viewpoint to model content in a structured sequence
- Organizing views so different audiences can use the same architecture description
- Maintaining consistency across model packages and updates
- Structuring architecture material for reuse and long term maintainability
Module 11: Model quality, review, and governance practices
- Typical modeling mistakes and how to avoid them
- Practical criteria for quality, clarity, and traceability
- Review patterns for architecture descriptions used by multiple stakeholders
- Handling partial maturity while keeping models useful and consistent
Module 12: Consolidation and practical modeling workflow
- Putting NAF 4.0 concepts into an end to end architecture workflow
- Using viewpoint logic to communicate across engineering and management audiences
- Building a practical checklist for future NAF based work
- Preparing a personal roadmap for continued modeling practice
