In this members-only meeting, the Architecture Forum progressed its work on
TOGAF,
received reports on a number of important ongoing
projects and liaisons, and in addition mandated new work in several areas
relating to TOGAF.
The presentations and detailed minutes of these proceedings are
available from the Architecture
Forum members' web site.
Topics covered:
Mike Lambert of The Open Group and the University of Reading presented
an update on an Open Group initiative to establish Enterprise Architecture
as a topic in university curricula.
A number of potential activities have been identified within this
program. Already completed is a presentation that Mike has developed for
use by members in promoting this initiative, both within their own
companies and among academic institutions and communities with whom they
have contact. The presentation explains the proposal and solicits
interest/involvement from anyone who can help.
Mike is particularly keen to make contact with anyone who can identify
opportunities to present the proposal to universities as a group.
Judith Jones of Architecting-the-Enterprise Ltd. presented a
report on further work within the TOGAF9 development team.
Draft 0.7 of the emerging TOGAF9 had been handed over at the Miami
meeting in July for an extended internal
Architecture Forum review. That base had not been
evolved further, but there had been further work in the areas of rigor
(analysis against GERAM), terminology, building blocks, and product
management.
In addition, there had been work on the development of communication
materials, and the APC earlier in the week had already featured a
detailed exposition by Judith and Bob Weisman, of CGI Canada, of the
work in the various domains of TOGAF9:
- Architecture Development
- Architecture-based Business Transformation
- Architecture Deployment
- Architecture Value Realization
- Architecture Best Practice Management
On Wednesday evening, October 25, a joint Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF)
meeting was held between members of the Architecture Forum and the ITAC
team, on collaboration to work towards a Guide to Core Architecture
Terminology.
As input to the BoF, Len Fehskens of Hewlett-Packard had evolved an
earlier draft paper by the ITAC team, and the participants in the BoF
reached agreement on this paper as an excellent starting point for joint
work towards such a Guide.
Gary Doherty, the new TOGAF Product Manager, reported on the results of
market research conducted by The Open Group, among TOGAF Certified personnel. This survey would be used as a baseline on which further
surveys would be constructed.
Gary also presented proposals for implementation of
a TOGAF Product Management function within The Open Group company, and for
a revised TOGAF development process that would receive inputs from a wide
range of sources, and provide a means of filtering, evaluating, and
prioritizing them.
The members of the Architecture Forum participated in a workshop to
elaborate the vision and goals of TOGAF.
Update reports were provided on the following topics:
- Architecture Terminology - Graham Meaden, Celestial Consulting
- Service Oriented Architectures - Dave Hornford, Hornford
Associates and Chris Harding, The Open Group
- MDA/TOGAF Synergy Project - Ed Harrington, Data Access
Technologies
- Building Blocks/Architecture Information Base Project - Bill Estrem, Metaplexity Associates
- DODAF/TOGAF Harmonization Project - Fatma Dandashi, The MITRE
Corporation (for Rolf Siegers, Raytheon)
- Management ADM - David Jackson, IBM
and on the following liaisons:
- ITIL - Judith Jones, Architecting-the-Enterprise and Serge
Thorn, Serono International
- COBIT/ISACA - Stuart Macgregor, Real IRM
The forum mandated four projects for detailed scoping and
definition:
- TOGAF ADML
- TOGAF and ITIL
- TOGAF and RUP
- TOGAF Localization
