Architecture Framework Program GroupAgenda
The feedback from the London meeting showed that the architecture program continues to receive the most consistently high importance and satisfaction ratings from its membership. In the last three years TOGAF has become an extremely valuable tool which has assisted many organisations to develop their own IT Architecture, and its continued development in the context if the IT DialTone Strategy remains a key activity.
The following topics will be addressed during the Boston Meeting. A more detailed agenda will be agreed at an interim meeting being held from July 28-30.
1 Development of TOGAF
The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF) provides a structured approach for an organisation that needs to develop an Architecture for Information Systems. and from that an IT Strategy. It can be used by vertical industry consortia to develop an Architecture for the use of IT in their industry, by individual organisations to define their way forward, and by vendors to structure and express their offerings.
The focus of current work is to provide extensions to TOGAF which help organisations to think of their systems in terms of Architectural Building Blocks - the major system components - and to derive Solution Building Blocks - the products they will buy.
2 Support for IT DialTone Architecture
The members of the Architecture Program Group are keen that their work should support the development of the IT DialTone Architecture, and have committed themselves to assist the team working on it, and to learn from it ways in which TOGAF can be developed and improved, specifically to facilitate the integration of IT Dialtone, as it evolves over time, into an organization's overall IT Architecture.
The meeting will progress the relationship between TOGAF and the IT DialTone Architecture, and will make detailed plans for supporting IT DialTone.
3 Standards Information Base
The SIB provides a structured list of formal and de facto standards which are recognised across the industry as providing the basis for open procurements. As well as supporting TOGAF, it will also be the basis for the population of the IT DialTone Architecture by standards and technologies.
Current work includes an investigation into the potential for providing front-end software to the SIB which will give an organisation a tailored view not only of the SIB but of those standards which it has selected as being a part of the corporate strategy.