TOGAF Program Group Meeting

27-29th April 1999, Helsingor

Detailed Agenda

The next meeting of the TOGAF Program Group will be held on Tuesday through Thursday,  27-29 April 1999, at The Open Group Members' Meeting at Helsingor, Denmark.

The meeting falls into two parts.

• Tuesday, April 27th, will be an informational plenary day, the main focus of which will exploring alternative approaches to developing enterprise architectures.
  • A multimedia TOGAF Tutorial will provide a detailed explanation of the business benefits of IT architectures in general, and of TOGAF as a framework for architecture development
  • A set of case studies will be presented on approaches to achieving an enterprise architecture, both from a customer and a vendor viewpoint.

• Wednesday, April 28th, and Thursday, April 29th will be a day-and-a-half practical workshop, in which the group will progress work on the 1999 program deliverables.
  • The group will receive an overview of the final 1999 plan agreed at Santa Clara, and a report on progress to date on individual work items.
  • There will a half-day session devoted to the Building Blocks Definition project, which aims to develop a practical way of defining architectural building blocks in a way that can be used in conformance testing and procurement
    • Part of this session will be held jointly with the Security Program Group, to review security architecture both from the security viewpoint (CDSA, Authorisation, Authentication etc.) and from the broader viewpoint of The Open Group Architectural Framework. 
  • There will be a report back on the Open Group Architecture Board meeting which immediately precedes the Members' Conference.
  • There will be a presentation by Paul Hickey, Worldwide Director of Professional Services, on proposals for an Open Group professional services offering based on TOGAF.
  • There will be a review of work in progress on the "ADM Update" project.

Tuesday 27th April 1999
08:30	What's Hot in The Open Group: This first session of the day precedes the start of the Program Group meetings.	Mike Lambert, The Open Group
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Welcome / Agenda Review	John Spencer, The Open Group
11:10	TOGAF Tutorial	Chris Greenslade, The Open Group
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	TOGAF 1999 Program Update: A review of the 1999 TOGAF work program	John Spencer, The Open Group
14:30	Case Study #1: "In Search of an Architecture: Procurement made understandable by an Architecture"	Endre Grotnes, Department of IT Planning & Coordination, Directorate for Public Management (Statskonsult), Norway
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Case Study #2: "Visual Enterprise Architecture Planning"	Lars W. Henriksen, Senior Architecture Consultant, NCR
17:00	Discussion and Feedback	John Spencer, The Open Group
17:30	Close

 

Wednesday 28th April 1999
09:00	TOGAF Program Update: A review of the 1999 work program agreed at Santa Clara, and a progress report on work to date on planned deliverables.	John Spencer
09:30	TOGAF Support Services Proposal: A presentation by Paul Hickey of The Open Group on current proposals for an Open Group service offering based on TOGAF.	Paul Hickey
10:15	Architecture Board Report: A report back on the Open Group Architecture Board meeting which immediately precedes the Members' Conference.	Walter Stahlecker
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Building Blocks Definition: Session #1 First of two sessions to progress the Building Blocks Deifnition project.	Walter Stahlecker
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Building Blocks Definition: Session #2 A joint session with the Security Program Group, to review security architecture both from the security viewpoint and from the broader viewpoint of architectural building blocks.
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	ADM Update Project Review - Session #1:   Review of work-In-progress on the "ADM Update" project.	John Spencer
17:00	Program Group Executive Meeting: The Program Group Executive will meet to consider progress made during the day, to refine the 1999 work plan, including scheduling of teleconferences and interim meetings before the Montreal meeting, and to plan the agenda for the Montreal meeting.	John Spencer
17:30	Close

 

Thursday 29th April 1999
09:00	ADM Update Project Review - Session #2: Review of work-In-progress on the "ADM Update" project.
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Project Work Review - Session #3: Review of work-In-progress on the "ADM Update" project.
12:30	Close

 

Last Update: April 21, 1999
Name: John Spencer
Email: j.spencer@opengroup.org