The global communications industry is seeking technological advances that will improve time to market for new products and services. Technological advances identified and specified by the TMF’s NGOSS program include a common business process model (the eTOM), a common information model (the SID), and a common distributed architecture (the NGOSS Architecture). However, to assure consistent and common usage of all of these elements a unifying methodology is needed to facilitate the deployment of solution compliant with the NGOSS program.

The NGOSS Lifecycle project provides the industry with a common framework for the identification and specification of a business problem and the specification and development of a deployable solution that conforms to NGOSS and makes use of NGOSS transformation frameworks including the business process framework (eTOM), information framework (SID), systems integration framework (TNA) and the applications framework (TAM).

The work of defining the NGOSS Lifecycle is now the responsibility of the Architecture Harmonization Team.  For further information about this project please click here.