Principles Viewpoint

The Principles Viewpoint pattern creates elements and a diagram that models the relationship between Goals and Principles. Aggregation relationships model the decomposition of Goals and a Realization relationship models how Principles can be related to one or more Goals.

Figure 1. Shows a motivation diagram relating the principles and the goals they implement. Color has been applied to the elements to make the diagram more appealing.

Discussion
The purpose of the pattern is to allow enterprise and information technology architects and other stakeholders to relate Principles back to Goals. The Principles will then form a foundation for the articulation of Requirements.

The pattern is typically used in the early stages of an initiative and will commonly form part of the Enterprise Architecture being reused by a many initiatives.

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the Goals and Principles to suit the initiative.
Add additional Goals and Principles as required.

The following is a list of some of the next steps available when applying the pattern.
·	Goals could be related to each other to show competing forces between stakeholders.
Principles could be related to each other to show conflicts of architecture.
Goals could be related to stakeholders to show their provenance
Principles could be related to the Requirements that they generalize.

Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Archimate Technology
Diagram Layout
Tools you may find useful
The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with the Components and Interfaces particularly when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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