The Architecture Forum’s Amsterdam meeting comprised two sessions: a one-hour teleconference on Wednesday October 6, 2010, and a full day face-to-face meeting on Thursday October 21, 2010. During the week commencing October 18 in Amsterdam, a number of Working Groups and Standing Committees also met. (Minutes from those meetings are available in the Architecture Forum member’s site under the Meeting Minutes category.)
The October 6 teleconference addressed administrative matters for the Forum, including quarterly reports for the Standing Committees and Working Groups. The most significant consent item was approval of the current work programs to continue. It was also noted that we are seeking a new volunteer to act as the Liaison to the OMG.
The October 21 meeting was held in conjunction with the Amsterdam Open Group Conference and Members' Meetings. There were 19 voting members present. As this was insufficient for a quorum, a two-week consensus check on the decisions made will occur after the meeting.
The Forum Chair gave an update on the status of how the Forum Strategy is being actioned. This included a recommendation of how to bring the current threads of development together (maintenance, modeling, survey, people certification, and extensions) into a roadmap. This includes a number of tactical steps along the way to developing an “easier to consume” version of TOGAF which would be modular, extensible, toolable, profilable, and internally consistent. The first step would be a release of TOGAF in 2011 addressing known defects, followed later by the formal model of TOGAF, then extensions and other significant changes.
The Forum approved the proposal to establish a new Working Group to develop a TOGAF Reference Architecture for Small/Medium Enterprise. This would be led by Nayan Ruparelia from Hewlett Packard. A charter will be brought forward to the next meeting in San Diego for approval.
The Forum reviewed the status of the TOGAF–TMF Liaison Working Group. The Forum encourages the Working Group to publish its current White Paper as soon as possible, and has initiated a Forum review of the document, using the online document review system. The Working Group has the action to provide a roadmap for publication of the current mapping document by November 21.
The TOGAF 9 Maintenance Working Group brought forward a detailed scope document for development of Technical Corrigendum 1 for TOGAF 9. This includes the scope of change and a detailed timeline to produce a Technical Corrigendum for approval in May 2011. The Forum approved the plan.
Thomas Obitz presented the results of the survey undertaken by the TOGAF Management Standing Committee. The aim is to use the results to guide future developments of the Forum (as noted in the earlier proposal from Dave Hornford).
The meeting also included a number of informational updates on the Standing Committees Working Groups that had met during the conference and not reported in other slots:
- Jason Uppal reported on the Certification Standing Committee.
- Serge Thorn reported on the Localization Standing Committee.
- Bob Weisman reported on the Information Architecture Working Group.
- Arnold van Overeem reported on the Interoperability Working Group.
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 Amsterdam meetings are in the Amsterdam Materials area of the Architecture Forum members' site (available to members only here).
