NGOSS Users Group Agenda
January 22, 2007
Team Action Week, Lisbon, Portugal

Agenda:

• 9:00am: Welcome and Housekeeping
• 9:10am:  Keynote address – Martin Creaner, TM Forum Vice President and CTO
• What are the obstacles in implementing NGOSS today?
• Where can we be in the future and what do we need to do to get there?
• What problems can NGOSS address?
• 10:00am:  Coffee break
• 10:30am: Tigerstripe / Cisco Case Study
• Doug Strombom CEO, Tigerstripe
• 11:15am:  Progress case studies on implanting the NGOSS SID -- John Petrie, Vice President, Business Development, Progress
• 12:00pm: Lunch
• 1:30pm: Telecom Italia Case Study – Implementing the SID using Eclipse and Rose, and its application for Network Management; requirements for tools for SID adoption.
  • Guiseppe Covino, Telecom Italia
• 2:15pm: BT Case Study
  • Steve Orobec, Enterprise Architecture & OSS Strategy, BT
• 3:00pm: Coffee break
• 3:30pm: Casewise Case Study – Implementing NGOSS using Casewise Tools
  • Paul Wilkinson, Casewise
• 4:00pm: TM Forum Tools Strategy and Direction
  • Stephen Gaito, TM Forum Technical Team Staff
• 4:30pm: Tools Round table discussion – All Users Group Participants
  • How have others done their implementations?
  • What have others done with NGOSS?
  • What tools are there to help?
  • What is missing?
  • What do we need to do regarding interoperability of tools?
• 5:15pm: Closing remarks -- Martin Creaner