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Subject: RE: [bcm] Brochure Draft; An opporunity to put into practice the BCM process
Neil,
There is a good chance SAIL will begin with a pilot with at least two agencies looking to define Web Services Solution Architectures. As this is a very cloudy, poorly defined market, I would like to know how the BCM team might fit into this effort. Our task will include defining common business problems that would use web services, what the adjacent technologies are, how various standards map to these models, and a set of common evaluation criteria that would be used for the vendors to self proclame their capabilities. Users and integrators use these templates to develop use cases and associated metrics.
If you have any examples that we could insert into our proposal, I would be very appreciative. This will help get the ball rolling.
john
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John,
To add to what David is suggesting ...
I am also in favor of accelerating the process of putting BCM concepts into practice and using existing practice to inform BCM methods. It also seems to be to be a good idea to have a more active connection between BCM and your SAIL program if that is what you are proposing. There seems to be a $60,000 barrier to entry in terms of such participation, however. It is also important that BCM remain agnostic with regard to vendor preferences. What would you suggest as the best way to link the efforts?
With respect to the OMB reference models, my intuition is that BCM is like the PRM (Performance Reference Model) in that it touches the other reference models, particularly the Business Reference Model, Data Reference Model, and Service Component Reference Model. It informs all of these models from a community of interest perspective.
There is more than enough challenge, work and risk in these efforts to go around. So I am all in favor of learning from others' experience and sharing the burden.
Neil
From: David RR Webber
[mailto:david@drrw.info] John,
OASIS is very clear on this all.
If you feel you have implementations that conform to an OASIS specification then you can notify that technical committee about the conforming implementation.
So far we have one that we've been made aware of - the eprXML work from Norway - and we are working with that team to develop BCM templates from that that will be publically available.
If you have indeed taken the OASIS specification and applied to it your project(s) then I'm sure we'd welcome the feedback on what worked, and where the gap analysis is.
And we'd be especially interested in showcasing the resulting BCM templates and other artifacts from the project(s) that illustrate the work done.
We are also beginning to work with other groups that have expressed interest - one I can mention is CUNY in New York and their Center for XML - where they are actively looking at BCM activities that may fit their program there.
The other of course is the OASIS eGov TC - and jointly developing examples of BCM templates for specific government domains.
So it seems to me that one path forward would be to take whatever products SAIL has done - and cast those into BCM templates - as Word and Excel documents for instance - that we can then review and verify that in fact they are applying BCM principles and techniques.
This then has the benefit of providing back into those projects BCM artifacts that conform to an open public standard accredited by OASIS.
With the eprXML project we started by reviewing PPT materials and specification and project overview materials that showed how BCM principles are being actively integrated into the development of the project.
Perhaps you can share with us similar overview materials?
Thanks, DW.
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