The major focus of the meeting was on developing a roadmap for the next
version of TOGAF, based on the outcome from two working groups which
have been working intensively since the previous meeting in April 2007.
A full report on the meeting will shortly be available from the
Architecture Forum Members' web site.
Topics covered during the meeting included:
Forward Plan for TOGAF
After consideration of the output from the Core Working Group and
specific proposals for changes to TOGAF, the Forum agreed to work
towards a new version of TOGAF to be published around the end of Q1/2008
and established a roadmap of activities necessary to achieve that target:
- The baseline on which the new version will be built is the
current version of TOGAF, 8.1.1.
- The document will be structured according to the
recommendations of the Core Working Group. TOGAF core will be
written in such a way that it is suitable for translation to
other languages.
- A considerable amount of work has been devoted to TOGAF
Development over the last three years. Much of that work is now
ready for inclusion in TOGAF and will be submitted for the new
version.
- Some of the material in the existing TOGAF Resource Base is
now out-of-date and will be removed or refreshed.
- One of the platinum members of The Open Group is considering
submission of considerable additional material to improve the
usability of TOGAF.
A deadline of September 14 has been set for submissions of
content for the new version. Material submitted after this date will
not be considered for inclusion in the next version. This will allow
time for an informal review before the next Forum meeting in October
in Budapest and the availability of the first integrated draft of
the new version in November.
Meeting Administration
The Forum approved the minutes of meeting held in Paris in April 2007
and reviewed the action list, issues list, and consent items list output
from that meeting.
New Member/Attendee Expectations from the
Architecture Forum
Three new/prospective members of the Forum explained their motivation
for joining the Forum:
- Diamond Consulting - Looks for standards for use by a group of
80 professional architects.
- Procter & Gamble - Do not see Enterprise Architecture as an area
of competitive advantage, so want to leverage the best that the
industry has to offer. Keen to improve architecture tools.
- University of Cambridge - Looking to build on a successful EU-funded project by establishing the output as
recognized standards.
Architecture Forum Status Update
Garry Doherty, TOGAF Product Manager, presented a brief update
of work in the last quarter. Highlights included:
- The formation of two working groups to provide a baseline for
future development; the first addressed the structure of TOGAF and
how to categorize the content; the second the development of a
meta-model for TOGAF
- Related work on Service Oriented Architecture, Business
Architecture, and Semantic Interoperability
- Contribution of materials in support of TOGAF from SAP/Capgemini
- Four new white papers:
- TOGAF/MDA Synergy
- TOGAF and ITIL
- TOGAF and COBIT mapping
- Service Oriented Architecture
- 145 current members of the Forum (31 new in the quarter)
Procedures and Infrastructure Update
Andrew Josey provided a brief overview of the procedures that
govern the operation of the Forum and the supporting electronic
infrastructure and made available a number of supporting documents.
Report of the Core Working Group
Paul van der Merwe, Real IRM, presented the outcome of three
months' work by the Core Working Group.
Building on a proposal at the April meeting, the working group agreed
that the contents of TOGAF should be categorized as follows:
- TOGAF Core
- TOGAF Mandated
- TOGAF Recommended
- TOGAF Supporting
The group went further and categorized the existing content of TOGAF
8.1.1 using these categories.
The objective of this categorization is to identify which parts of TOGAF need to be published at the same time and showed how TOGAF
could be structured in the future.
These recommendations were accepted as the baseline for future work.
Report of the Modeling Working Group
Ed Harrington, Model Driven Solutions, presented the outcome
of three months' work by the Modeling Working Group.
The group found that it needed this period simply to understand the
scope of the activity requested and recommended follow-up action to:
- Establish the requirements for a meta-model/ontology
- Define the meta-model/ontology
- Develop the meta-model/ontology
- Establish toolset requirements
It was agreed that the working group should continue for a further
three months with the objective of completing these tasks for the October 2007
meeting in Budapest.
Project/Liaison Reports
The current status of working groups and related Forum activities was
reviewed, including:
- TOGAF Core Working Group
- TOGAF Modeling Working Group
- TOGAF Certification Working Group
- TOGAF/MDA Synergy
- TOGAF and COBIT/ISACA
- TOGAF and ITIL
- SOA/TOGAF Practical Guide
- Business Architecture Working Group
- SOA Working Group
- Semantic Interoperability Working Group
Certification Status Report
Andrew Josey, The Open Group Certification Manager,
summarized
the current status of TOGAF certification.
- 3069 TOGAF 8 certified individuals (growth of more than 600 in
three months)
- US and UK dominate both total numbers and growth
- 98.7% via training; 1.2% via examination
- Very positive feedback from those certified through training
(quality of course, quality of trainers)
Publications Status
Andrew Josey provided a brief status report on TOGAF
publications.
- The Open Group is looking to partner with a publisher for future
publication of TOGAF: The Book. This should result in broader
availability and better discounts for companies looking to buy
copies in bulk.
- Andrew himself is working on two supporting publications, Pocket Guide to TOGAF and a
Guide to the ADM.
- The Open Group has been asked to review an additional
publication, The Open Group Architecture Framework Management Guide, being developed by
one of the members of the Forum. It was agreed that members of the
Forum would be invited to participate in this exercise.
PROMISE – Architecture and Standards for
Product Lifecycle Management
Dr. Ajith Kumar Parlikad from the University of Cambridge
presented a proposal for a new work item to standardize the output from
an EU-funded product, PROMISE, which is nearing completion. The project
has developed an architecture and a series of specifications for Lifecycle Management (for industry, not IT).
The Architecture Forum strongly recommend that The Open Group support
this proposal, and that it be given the same status as working groups
like SOA and Business Architecture. The rationale for this
recommendation is that it would allow members from other Forums, such as
Real-Time & Embedded Systems and UDEF. [This topic is strongly related
to the presentation made by Toyota as part of the plenary APC in Paris
in April 2007.]
Proposals for Changes to TOGAF
Two members presented proposals for changes to TOGAF.
Jason Uppal, QR Systems Inc., presented proposals in the areas
of Value Realization and Requirements Management. Initially these are
likely to be brought forward as white papers.
Bob Weisman, CGI, brought forward a proposal to develop
materials from the TOGAF Development Group for inclusion in the next
version of TOGAF to improve the definitions of Phases E (Opportunities &
Solutions) and F (Migration Planning).
Both proposals were well received and the authors were recommended to
proceed to the next stage of development.
TOGAF 8.1.1 Defect Reports
The Forum reviewed the six defect reports against TOGAF 8.1.1
reported since the previous meeting. Minor changes to the
specification were recommended in response to five of the proposals;
the sixth was rejected as not being a defect.
TOGAF Case Studies
Judith Jones, Architecting-the-Enterprise, brought forward a
proposal to work on additional case study materials in support of TOGAF.
The proposal included a high-level overview of the use of TOGAF 8 by:
- Carphone Warhouse
- The Home Office
- Department for Work & Pensions
- Office of Naval Research, TEAMS
- TOGAF/DoDAF synergy
- Typex
A proposal to create a working group to initiate, identify, review,
and set standards for all case studies coming forward and review current
ones was approved.
Modeling TOGAF 9 Draft 0.7
In the April 2007 meeting, a model of TOGAF created using the Eclipse
toolset and based on the SPAM standard was presented.
In this meeting, Leon Stucki, Future Tech Systems, presented a similar
model of TOGAF created using the Envision tool.
