Architecture Forum

Budapest, Hungary, October 21-26, 2007

Outline Weekly Agenda

In Budapest The Open Group Architecture Forum will host or be involved in the following meetings:

The members-only meeting of the Architecture Forum will commence on the afternoon of Sunday, 21st October. The meeting is scheduled to start at 2pm and run until 5:30pm and will include various status reports, the report from the Core Working group and an initial review of forum submissions for the 2008 revision . The agenda for this meeting is included below. This meeting will then continue on Wednesday 24th.
On the evening of Sunday, 21st October there will be an Open Tutorial: "An Introduction to TOGAF" by Bill Estrem, Metaplixity Associates
A key focus of the Architecture Forum at Budapest will be the public Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, which takes place from Monday 22nd through Wednesday 24th October.
On Wednesday 24th, Thursday 25th and Friday 25th October the members-only Architecture Forum meeting will continue. Wednesday focuses on the immediate goal of the 2008 revision looking at the submissions from the forum and the fast track submission from Capgemini and deciding the way forward. Thursday focuses on longer term planning for TOGAF. Friday rounds the meeting off by finalizing the short and long term roadmaps going forward.
The meeting is expected to run from 2pm to 5:30pm Sunday, 9 am to 5pm Wednesday and Thursday and 8:30am to 12 noon on Friday. The following are the highlights of the straw man agenda. Comments and improvement points are welcome from all members of the Architecture Forum. As such the agenda is subject to up-date and amendment.

The goal of this meeting is to progress the 2008 revision for TOGAF, and also to agree the longer term strategy and planning for TOGAF.

The meeting will also review progress for current ongoing deliverables including white papers, case studies, and defect reports on the current publications and drafts.
The meeting will include:
- Review of materials for the next version of TOGAF
- - Forum submissions
  - Fast track submission
- Summary of APC at the start of the Architecture Forum meeting
- Long-term plan for the future of TOGAF and the Architecture Forum
  - Multi-year roadmap
  - Update from Business Architecture views
  - Stakeholders/viewpoints as basis for validation of TOGAF
  - Plans for localization
- New members will be asked to speak to their rationale for joining the Architecture Forum and what they would like to achieve as a result
- An update on The Open Group and Forum processes
- A report of the Core Working Group
- A report of the Modelling Working Group
- A report of the Marketing Working Group
- Review of defect reports against TOGAF
- A status update on the TOGAF Certification program and a look at future directions for the certification program
- Forum Project and Liaison status reports
Pre-meeting materials - to be made available two weeks before the meeting
- Reports of the working groups
- Project/Liaison reports
- Submissions for the 2008 revision of TOGAF

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Special Pre-Conference Tutorial: An Introduction to TOGAF
Sunday 21st October 2007

Overview

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a comprehensive framework and methodology which enables the design, evaluation and implementation of the right Architecture for an Enterprise. It has been evolved continuously within The Open Group’s Architecture Forum over the past twelve years, and its development has been guided by and based on the knowledge and experience of Open Group members who are practicing Enterprise and IT Architects working for a wide range of enterprises throughout the world.

For the first eight years of its existence, The Open Group Architecture Forum focused primarily on the evolution of TOGAF as a framework for developing technical architectures that fully meet the business needs of an organization. That goal reached maturity with TOGAF Version 7. As of TOGAF Version 8, the Architecture Forum began to respond to new challenges, with the increasing realization within the industry of the importance of Enterprise Architecture in the development of information systems. IT users are now seeking a framework that helps to develop enterprise architectures to address all aspects of an organization's information services. They are also seeking skilled architectural practitioners and suitable tool sets that will support them.

This tutorial describes what the Architecture Forum has achieved so far in the development of the "Enterprise Edition" of TOGAF, Version 8, and shows how the Forum is responding to new challenges. Topics covered include: The Open Group Architecture Forum; the motivation for developing TOGAF; TOGAF components; the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM); other aspects of TOGAF; other activities of the Architecture Forum; plans for the future.

Sunday 21st October 2007

18:00 - 19:30

Special Pre-Conference Tutorial: Introduction to TOGAF™ (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
Bill Estrem, Metaplixity Associates

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The 15^th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference - Budapest 2007
Monday 22nd to Wednesday 24th October 2007

Overview

This three-day Conference is aimed specifically at Enterprise Architecture practitioners and those directly involved in the management and oversight of Enterprise Architecture. The event has its own agenda.

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