Joann O'Brien Posted: 01-18-2010 5:38 AM

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Hello,

I would like to draw your attention to the following announcements:

Soft Launch of Portal:

We have recently soft launched the new Developer Network Portal, see here for more details:

http://www.tmforum.org/DeveloperNetwork/7688/home.html

Please check it out, and provide feedback.

User Group Kick Off:

We have kicked off two new User Groups under the TM Forum Developer Umbrella:

- Function Point Analysis, Lead by Steve Woodward

- OSS/J User Group, Lead by Craig Gallen and Pierre Gauthier

If you wish to follow or contribute to these User Groups, please ensure that you update your prefences to receive communication posted to these User Groups in the community.  Click here to amend your preferences:
http://www.tmforum.org/community/groups/forum_developers_group/default.aspx

Webinars:

The first of a series of Developer Focused Webinars will take place on Feb 23^rd and 10:00am EST.

Leveraging TM Forum Frameworks and Functional Analysis to Accurately Estimate Software Engineering Projects

Lead by Steve Woodward

Regional Spotlight:

Bangalore, India Tuesday March 30, 2010

This event will have a particular focus for Developers in the region.

http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/BangaloreIndia/8145/Home.html

Regular Meetings:

Post TAW we will be kicking off a regular meeting slot for the Developer Network Initiative.  The proposed timeslot is Tuesday 9:00am EST, 2:00pm GMT.

Please advise if this time is agreeable to you or not, if you are interested in attending such a meeting.

An outline agenda for this meeting will be:

- Discuss Progress in the User Groups listed in the Developer Network Initiative and understand if there are actions to be take to help progress these, also identify if there are work items or new requirements being identified within these User Groups that need to be addressed within TM Forum.

- Tooling, we need to work on a plan to provide the best tooling possible to the Developer audience in an easily accessible manner, with clear indications of maturity of each tool available.

- Continue to identify new activities/work items that need to be executed to support the Developer/Implementer audience, and create a roadmap for this.

Team Action Week:

TAW Lisbon, Portugal Jan 25 -29, 2010

See here for registration and full details of the agenda:

http://www.tmforum.org/TeamActionWeek/793/home.html

For the Developer Network we are running the following sessions:

First Team Meeting on Tuesday afternoon:

Detailed Agenda:

13:30 – 3:00pm Functional Point Analysis.  An overview of the Functional Point Analysis presentation by Steve Woodward

· Discuss relevance and interrelationships with TM Forum Products

3:30pm – 5:00pm Agile / SCRUM development

· Rationale for applying Agile/SCRUM

· Use Case driven development and the TMF business process framework: Use Case refinement vs. Process decomposition

· Agile planning & estimation: process elements and backlog items

· Evolving an enterprise architecture in a multi-project-environment

· The C2M Best Practices team within the TMF

4:00pm – 4:30pm Meeting with Keith (please insert the standard title for this)

5:00pm – 6:00pm  Developer Network General Discuss

- Next Steps, including prioritisation and goals.  (Gathering of input to create a Developer Network Roadmap)

General Sessions:

Along with the Team Session listed above, there will also be two general sessions covering both the Online Community & the Developer Network Initiative:

Monday: 15:30 – 17:00

Wednesday: 17:30 – 19:00

Chance to win an iTouch:

If you do not get a chance to attend one of the General Sessions listed above, then you can take the opportunity to meet with me and provide one to one feedback on either/both the Online Community and the Developer Network.   For details of appointment times available please contact reception.