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Architecture Forum

Objective of Meeting

The aim of the meetings was progression of the work of the Architecture Forum.

Summary

The Architecture Forum Seattle meeting comprised three sessions: a 1.5-hour teleconference on Tuesday, January 26; a 3.5-hour face-to-face meeting on the morning of Wednesday, February 3; and a full-day face-to-face meeting on Thursday, February 4. During the week in Seattle a number of Working Groups and Standing Committees also met. (Minutes from those meetings are available in the Forum members' site under the Meeting Minutes category.)

The January 26 teleconference addressed administrative matters for the Forum. This session was chaired by the newly elected Forum chair, Dave Hornford, and was attended by 25 Forum members. The most significant consent items agreed were approval to reform the defects activity to a working group – the TOGAF 9 Maintenance Working Group, and termination of the EA White Papers Working Group.

The February 3 and 4 meetings were held in conjunction with the Seattle Open Group Conference and Members Meetings.

The February 3 meeting began with the usual preliminaries. 18 members, insufficient for a quorum, were present. The Forum Chair led a discussion about how the Forum could implement the Forum strategy that had been approved by the Forum membership. This included a model showing where current activities fit with the strategy (see the Seattle Materials area, available to members only) and where there are gaps. It was agreed that effort will be made to improve use of the collaboration tools. One immediate change agreed was to adopt a Google Calendar for the Forum. The meeting concluded with a discussion of the business value of enterprise architecture in general and TOGAF in particular.

The morning session of the February 4 meeting was a joint meeting of the Architecture Forum, the Real Time and Embedded Systems Forum, the Security Forum, and the SOA Work Group, with 62 members participating. The joint meeting was called so the other Forums could express their needs to the Architecture Forum with respect to the future evolution of TOGAF.

Ed Roberts presented on the needs of the Real Time and Embedded Systems Forum, proposing model-driven open extensibility of TOGAF. Mike Jerbic presented the needs of the Security Forum, based on a model of intentional and uncertain architectures, and Tony Carrato presented the needs of the SOA Work Group. A lively discussion followed facilitated by Sally Long, the RT&ES Forum Director.

The afternoon session discussed how best to address the requirements presented in the joint session. It was agreed that the Architecture Forum should move forward on the request to model TOGAF in order to support open extensibility. The Forum agreed to work collaboratively with the Security Forum to identify security content to add to TOGAF and how to do so, and to collaborate with the SOA Work Group to create a generalization of the SOA Governance Framework with the potential for future incorporation into TOGAF.

The Forum also received updates from those working groups and standing committees that had not been able to present during the earlier teleconference. It was agreed that the Localization Standing Committee can proceed to submit its documents for company review (Translation Glossaries) when ready, and that the activities of the Strategy Working Group can be suspended until such time as it needs reactivation.

The meeting concluded with a review of action and consent items. 

Outputs

This summary, the Action Items, Consent Items, Issues List, and the detailed minutes available to members are the outputs of the meeting. (See the members only area.)

Additional summary notes from the Joint meeting are available as follows:

Next Steps

The Forum is scheduled to next meet in a virtual meeting on April 21, and then a face-to-face meeting in Rome on April 29 2010. Logistics for the meetings will be available in the Architecture Forum calendar.

Links

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