Chief Architects Forum Home Page (2PJK)
Contents: (3H5X)
- Introduction (3H5Y)
- 2009 CAF Meeting Schedule (3H5Z)
- 2009 ArchitecturePlus Seminar Meeting Schedule (3H60)
- What's New? (3H64)
- Project Mission and CAF Leadership Team (3H61)
- Document Repository and Discussion Forum (3H62)
- Past CAF Meetings/ArchitecturePlus Meetings (3H63)
Introduction: (2PJL)
What is the Chief Architects Forum? (2PJM)
- The Chief Architects Forum serves as a formal mechanism for the voice of the Chief Architect Community to be heard by the AIC Leadership, CIO Council, and OMB. (2PJN)
- The Forum is comprised of Chief Architects from federal government agencies. (2PJO)
- Provides an opportunity for Chief Architects to get together to share real world experiences and identify specific issues to promote EA successes. (2PJP)
What is the purpose of CAF? (2PJQ)
- To assist Chief Architects in improving the practice and usefulness of architectures in their agencies and in the Federal Government at large. (2PJR)
What is the philosophy of CAF? (2PJS)
- The CAF represents the shared voice of the EA community through a cooperative forum and that federal ? wide EA success rests squarely on the success of the individual and departments. (2PJT)
What is the Operational Model of the CAF? (2PJU)
- The CAF meets quarterly and focuses on topics that are relevant to advancing the practice of EA. (2PJV)
- During the meetings, participants are facilitated in small group breakout sessions on various EA topics. (2PJW)
- A discussion summary of the meeting is prepared, which includes analysis, and is disseminated to the CAF community via the CAF list serve. (2PJX)
- The summary is also sent to the AIC Leadership. (2PJY)
2009 CAF Meeting Schedule (3BOE)
* ''All Chief Architect Forums will be held from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time at the Graduate School, USDA, which is located at 600 Maryland Ave. SW, Washington DC and is near the L'Enfant Plaza Station Metro Station. (3PGI)
* Directions: The Capital Gallery building is conveniently located with access to the Metrorail and one block from the Washington Mall and the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum. Directions for Metro: Take the Metrorail Orange, Blue, Yellow or Green Line to the L'Enfant Plaza Station. Take the 7th and Maryland Avenue exit. (3PGH)
2009 ArchitecturePlus Seminar Meeting Schedule (3DGV)
- ''All ArchitecturePlus Seminars will be held from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Building, 1735 New York Avenue NW, 2nd Floor Auditorium, Washington, DC. The AIA Building is at 18th and E Streets, NW, Across from GSA and Directly Behind the Historic Octagon House. By Metro, take the Blue or Orange Line to Farragut West. Take the 18th Street Metro exit and walk toward the Mall on 18th Street." (3DH3)
- "Sponsored by the Federal CIO Council's Architecture and Infrastructure Committee and the Industry Advisory Council." (3DH5)
What's New? (2PK5)
- Federal Transition Framework - Dick Burk,OMB (33U3)
- Records Management Profile - Reynolds Cahoon, NARA and Lawrence Brewer, NARA (33U4)
- Enterprise Architecture Glossary of Terms - open, collaborative development underway (2PSQ)
- See http://ontologyportal.org as a resource (2QEU)
- How to subscribe to the Chief Architects Forum (2PYD)
- State of SICoP prepared for upcoming CIO Council Briefings, Semantic Mapping/Harmonization of the PRM, PART, and OMB 300 Semantic Technology Pilot prepared for FEA PMO Action Plan 2005-2006 (also see DKR Version), and SOA as a Framework for Delivering on the Mission prepared for SOA Executive Event and Management of Change Conference. (2Q9I)
- OMB seeks consensus on enterprise architecture terms, EA Terminology Compiled (Includes NASCIO Tool Kit Lexicon), and Added to the Government Enterprise Architecture Framework Components Registry and Repository (GEAFRR) in Support of the FEAPMO Communication Initiative. Updated April , 2004 in the Best Practices Dynamic Knowledge Repository and The Government Enterprise Architecture Framework (GEAF) Components Registry and Repository Version 2.0, April 1, 2004, PowerPoint. Also Topics Maps (XML) for EA/eGov Conferences Now Available to the Public. Also see Semantic Integration Using Topic Maps Tutorial at the XML 2004 Conference (8O4)
- The FEA Reference Model Ontology, Rick Murphy, GSA Office of the CIO (8O5)
- Architecture Guidelines-Part 3: Glossary of terms - (PDF) in the European Commission's Interchange of Data Between Administrations (IDA) European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European E-Government Services (9BI)
- Architecture Governance (pdf) - Roles and responsibilities and decisionmaking for the creation of good architecture - Alex Pavlak (37BP)
- ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: Lessons from classical architecture (pdf) - Looking at EA through the lens of classical architecture reveals that EA development should be executed in two sequential stages: an architectural stage followed by an engineering stage. As EA matures, projects will have greatest value if they are initiated by the business side of the enterprise. - AlexPavlak (2KRZ)
Project Mission (51X)
The Chief Architects Forum (CAF) is a body under the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Architecture and Infrastructure Committee?s (AIC) Governance Subcommittee, The CAF was formed in April 2004. The first CAF meeting held on April 5, 2004 was the official kick-off. On July 30, 2004, the CAF held a meeting to discuss the Federal Lines of Business (LoB) Initiative that has been launched by OMB as a part of the BY 2006 budget cycle. Architects were provided the opportunity to articulate the strategic imperatives that must be met to ensure the success of the LoB Initiative. The LoB meeting discussions provided a foundation for an agenda - setting meeting yhat was held on September 22, 2004. The objective of the September 22nd meeting was for the CAF to listen to what architects had to say with respect to EA topics they felt important to completing their mission, prioritize them and identify issues the CAF should focus on throughout the upcoming fiscal year.'' (62I)
The discussions from the working session provide valuable insight into the needs of the Chief Architect community as it relates to various EA work streams. Discussions ranged from EA human capital and team structures to tools, methodologies, business use, and implementation. The discussions were intended to identify issue areas for further investigation on the part of the CAF. Though there was no formal large-group prioritization exercise, the most frequent themes that emerged as CAF agenda items/objectives for the coming year are: (62J)
- Interoperability (62K)
- EA Value Proposition (62L)
- EA Registry/ Repository (62M)
- EA Guidance (62N)
- EA Human Capital (2PK7)
CAF Leadership Team (528)
- MikeDunham (33TR)
- IraGrossman (5L5)
- PatHeinig (5L6)
- MarleneHowze (33TS)
- SharonFrattaHill (33TT)
- RoyMabry (5L8)
- MaryMcCaffery (5L9)
- MattNewman (33TV)
- JohnSullivan (5LA)
- JamesSmith (33TY)
- MikeTiemann (33TZ)
- GailVerley (529)
Past CAF Meetings/ArchitecturePlus Meetings (3BOI)
- January 8, 2007, Chief Architects/ArchitecturePlus Special Seminar-Forum with Jeanne Ross (3BM1)
- December 19, 2006, ArchitecturePlus Seminar, Town Hall for SOA Management Strategies (3BKJ)
- October 11, 2006, Chief Architects Forum Meeting, at USDA Graduate School, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC (2Y91)
- July 19, 2006, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (2Y90)
- April 6, 2006, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (33LP)
- January 26, 2006, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (2Y8Y)
- October 20, 2005, AIC Meeting (3BOL)
- October 6, 2005, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (300O)
- September 15, 2005, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (3BOK)
- August 22, 2005, Special OMB FEAPMO/CAF Meeting at Department of Commerce (2UEL)
- July 7, 2005, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (2TCK)
- May 11, 2005, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (2QBH)
- January 6, 2005, Chief Architects Forum Meeting (2PK1)