The
Architecture Forum Seattle meeting comprised three sessions: a 1.5-hour teleconference on Tuesday,
January 26; a 3.5-hour face-to-face meeting on the morning of Wednesday,
February 3; and a full-day face-to-face meeting on Thursday,
February 4. During the week in Seattle a number of Working Groups
and Standing Committees also met. (Minutes from those meetings are
available in the Forum members' site under the Meeting Minutes
category.)
The
January 26 teleconference addressed administrative matters for the
Forum. This session was chaired by the newly elected Forum chair,
Dave Hornford, and was attended by 25 Forum members. The most
significant consent items agreed were approval to reform the defects
activity to a working group – the TOGAF 9 Maintenance Working
Group, and termination of the EA White Papers Working Group.
The February 3 and 4 meetings were held in conjunction with the Seattle
Open Group Conference and Members Meetings.
The February 3 meeting began with the usual preliminaries. 18 members,
insufficient for a quorum, were present. The Forum Chair led a
discussion about how the Forum could implement the Forum strategy
that had been approved by the Forum membership. This included a
model showing where current activities fit with the strategy (see
the Seattle Materials area,
available to members only) and
where there are gaps. It was agreed that effort will be made to improve use of the
collaboration tools. One immediate change agreed was to adopt a
Google Calendar for the Forum. The meeting concluded with a
discussion of the business value of enterprise architecture in
general and TOGAF in particular.
The
morning session of the February 4 meeting was a joint meeting of the
Architecture Forum, the Real Time and Embedded Systems Forum, the
Security Forum, and the SOA Work Group, with 62 members
participating. The joint meeting was called so the other Forums
could express their needs to the Architecture Forum with respect to
the future evolution of TOGAF.
Ed
Roberts presented on the needs of the Real Time and Embedded Systems
Forum, proposing model-driven open extensibility of TOGAF. Mike
Jerbic presented the needs of the Security Forum, based on a model of
intentional and uncertain architectures, and Tony Carrato presented
the needs of the SOA Work Group. A lively discussion followed
facilitated by Sally Long, the RT&ES Forum Director.
The
afternoon session discussed how best to address the requirements
presented in the joint session. It was agreed that the Architecture
Forum should move forward on the request to model TOGAF in order to
support open extensibility. The Forum agreed to work collaboratively
with the Security Forum to identify security content to add to TOGAF
and how to do so, and to collaborate with the SOA Work Group to create a
generalization of the SOA Governance Framework with the potential for
future incorporation into TOGAF.
The Forum also received updates from those working groups and standing
committees that had not been able to present during the earlier
teleconference. It was agreed that the Localization Standing
Committee can proceed to submit its documents for company review
(Translation Glossaries) when ready, and that the activities of the
Strategy Working Group can be suspended until such time as it needs
reactivation.
The
meeting concluded with a review of action and consent items.
