The
Architecture Forum’s Rome meeting was comprised of two sessions: a
one-hour teleconference on Wednesday April 21, 2010, and a full day
face-to-face meeting on Thursday April 29, 2010. During the week
commencing April 26 in
Rome, a number of Working Groups
and Standing Committees also met. (Minutes from those meetings are
available in the Architecture Forum members site under the Meeting
Minutes
category.)
The
April 21 teleconference addressed administrative matters for the
Forum. The most
significant consent items agreed were approval for the TOGAF
Maintenance Working Group to commence a Technical Corrigendum (once the
second set of defect reports has been developed), and dissolution of
the Adoption Strategies Working Group (since they have completed their
assigned task to develop a White Paper).
The
April 29 meeting was held in conjunction with the Rome
Open Group Conference and Members Meetings. There were 19 voting
members present (insufficient for a quorum).
The
Forum Chair gave an update on the status of actioning the Forum Strategy.
Significant work items produced this quarter have been the White Papers
(and templates) produced by the Adoption Strategies Working Group and
the Translation Glossaries being developed by the Localization Standing
Committee. It was agreed that an action be taken to develop a charter
for a new working group to develop a proposed set of changes to the
Preliminary Phase based on the Adoption Strategies Working Group.
Earlier
in the conference week, a joint meeting had been held between the
Architecture Forum, the Security Forum, and SABSA Limited to explore
collaboration. It was agreed to start a joint working group of the
Architecture Forum and the Security Forum to develop a White Paper on
integrating TOGAF and SABSA. The planned deliverables include a common
glossary, position of SABSA
within the Metamodel, mapping of SABSA elements to deliverables, artifacts, and building blocks. Getronics has offered a co-chair for
the joint working group – Pascal de Koning.
The Forum reviewed the current activities of the working groups and
standing committees. A concern raised was the perceived lack of
activities in some areas, and what remedial steps can be taken to
assist. It was agreed to appoint co-chairs to the Certification
Standing Committee. It was agreed to prepare a separate proposal for
program management for TOGAF in time for Boston. A process and
timeline for completing the enterprise architecture definition work was
agreed, with a final set of proposed definitions to commence a vote
within the next three weeks. The Forum agreed to transition the
responsibilities of the Case Studies Working Group to the TOGAF Product
Manager, and to close that working group.
The
meeting also included a number of informational sessions:
- Chris Armstrong presented on modeling
TOGAF using the Eclipse Process Framework, which is a framework tool
selected by current initiative (Architecture Forum/RT&ES) to model
TOGAF.
- Chris Greenslade informed the Forum of The Open Group Code of
Conduct. This will apply to all Open Group members. It includes guidance
for email, face-to-face, and virtual meeting participation. It also
includes sanctions for those who do not follow the code. This is
available on the web.
- Steve Philp, The Open Group Marketing Director for ITAC and ITSC,
presented an update on the Business Forum. This is a Platinum member
initiative, with the main objective being certification of skills and
experience for Business Architects and Business Analysts. The intent is
to launch a program in Q1 2011. The Forum appointed Mick Adams to act
as liaison to this new initiative.
- Mick Adams, Forum Vice-Chair, gave an update on a new initiative for
a
set of annual industry-based awards for enterprise architecture to be
run by The Open Group. The first set of awards is to be targeted
for Amsterdam in October 2010. Further information will follow.
This
summary, the Action Items, Consent Items, Issues List, and the
detailed minutes available to members are the outputs of the
meeting (available to members only here).
Other materials from the Rome meetings are in the Rome Materials area of
the Architecture Forum members' site (available to members only here).
