Live from Management World Americas 2010

Here at Management World Americas 2010, all the activities have prevented me from going on a culinary adventure this week. I have had time to eat, though!  But, I promise to report on one from the home front after the conference.

I had the opportunity to teach the new Frameworx-based RFx Support course here at the conference.  It was well attended by Service Providers who were quite interested in using Frameworx components (eTOM, TAM, SID, and Integration Framework) to support the specification of solution requirements.  Many of the students commented that this would enable them to focus more on company-specific requirements not present in Frameworx.

Here is a link to the RFx Support template, which includes a document and supporting spreadsheets…

http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/artf2075?nav=1&_pagenum=1

One welcome “surprise” for the students was the eTOM and SID (and to-be-developed TAM) conformance criteria.  Conformance criteria enable a requester to ask and a responder to state the level of conformance to subsets of the eTOM, such as to specific Level 3 processes, and of the SID, such as lowest level Aggregate Business Entities.

Here is a link to the page that contains information about eTOM and SID conformance, including the levels of conformance…

http://www.tmforum.org/ConformanceCertification/7450/home.html

Note that a member can assess the conformance of their solution(s) using the process and template described on the web pages and then decide whether to submit the solution(s) for certification by the TM Forum.

Home for the next two weeks and then off traveling again…watch for more culinary reporting from wherever I end up, but also another blog while I am still at home.