Our upcoming Rational® System Architect® Users Group meeting will be hosted at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum located at 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy, Chantilly, VA 20151 on Thursday, November 13, 2014. For the first time, we are combining our SA Users group meeting with the Rational® Systems and Software Engineering Symposium. This FREE Face-To-Face event will focus on the IBM Rational solution for enterprise architecture, and systems and software engineering -- with sessions around each of the core processes of enterprise architecture (DoDAF 2, FEAF 2, & EA in general), requirements management, solution architecture and design, collaboration, change and configuration management, reporting, and test and quality management.
We are very excited to bring together our current and future Rational users, IBM Business Partners, and industry experts to discuss ideas and issues that are common to all of us in the industry. We encourage all our current and future customers to attend this event. It will be a great time to stay connected and network with other professionals to share your ideas and best practices, and to learn from the experts.
AGENDA TOPICS
| Time | Title |
|---|---|
| 1:00 - 1:30 PM EST | Meet-and-Greet |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM EST | Team Success Story at Army CERDEC Presenters: LTC Timothy Klenske, USARMY TASCOM Marco Temaner - Enterprise Elements, Inc. |
| 2:30 - 3:15 PM EST | System Architect’s Enterprise Solution for Asset Accountability Presenter: Eric G. Hutson - Federal Agency |
| 3:15 - 3:30 PM EST | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM EST | Generating Repository Based Enterprise Life Cycle Documentation at the IRS Presenter John Jessup, Senior Consultant, IBM Software and Services-Federal (ISSF) |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST | Enterprise Architecture and the Semantic Web: the Next Generation of EA is Here Presenter: Lou Varveris - WW CoP Lead, EA, Continuous Business Planning & DevOps |
Title: Team Success Story at Army CERDEC
Through partnerships with our US Army customer, System Integrators and other software vendors, a comprehensive DoDAF-compliant Architecture development, governance and analysis environment is now available within the IBM Federal Cloud for use on the .mil domain. Army CERDEC works with Strategic Technology Consulting to employ IBM Rational System Architect to generate DoDAF products and the Enterprise Elements Repository to synthesize, analyze and visualize the underlying information. Through our partnership with CloudOne, we have provisioned this toolset within the IBM Federal Cloud, enabling a broader community to utilize and leverage the information and capabilities and saving deployment and hosting costs in the process.
Presenters: LTC Timothy Klenske, USARMY TASCOM and Marco Temaner - Enterprise Elements, Inc.
Title: System Architect’s Enterprise Solution for Asset Accountability; Current Transition and Future State Capture Enhancing CIO Decision Making and Component Level Costing For Enhancements of OMB Reporting and Investment Review Board reporting.
Presenter: Eric G. Hutson - Federal Agency
Title: Generating Repository Based Enterprise Life Cycle Documentation at the IRS
Abstract: This presentation discusses and demonstrates a macro based document that pulls information from a Rational System Architect repository thus decreasing the time required to develop the a required life cycle document (a Business System Report) and producing a more accurate model based specification. The Enterprise Life Cycle (ELC) is a framework used by IRS projects to ensure consistency and compliance with government and industry best practices. One of the milestone ELC documents is the Business System Report (BSR). The purpose of the BSR is to confirm, clarify and document initial system scope, vision, system architecture concept and release roadmap for the project as a whole, and to define the release plan for the current release. A repository based document provides an option for projects at the IRS to develop a more consistent, accurate, and reusable project deliverable.
Presenter: John Jessup, Senior Consultant, IBM Software and Services-Federal (ISSF)
Title: Enterprise Architecture and the Semantic Web: the Next Generation of EA is Here
At this luncheon we'll discuss the next generation of Enterprise Architecture -- utilizing information from disparate sources and using semantic web technology (SPARQL queries/RDF triple-stores) to produce dashboards that reflect latest EA information about the organization. This includes application portfolio analysis, requirements, operational analysis, within current-state and future-state architectures. We will demonstrate the newest major release of IBM's enterprise architecture tool, System Architect, 11.4.3, which provides these capabilities in conjunction with other best of breed tools.
Presenter: Lou Varveris - WW CoP Lead, EA, Continuous Business Planning & DevOps
John Jessup Bio
John Jessup has been associated with the application of the methods and techniques that comprise the field of Enterprise Architecture since 1989. He has been supporting Enterprise Architecture projects across a range of industries with a particular focus on projects utilizing the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF), the Federal Architecture Framework (FEA) and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). John is currently working at the IRS in support of their deployment of Rational System Architect and other tools.
Lou Varvers Bio
Lou Varvers is is the Community of Practice lead for Enterprise Architecture and Dev Ops at IBM Rational. He has 20 years experience in helping clients to build successful enterprise architectures. Prior to his recent post, he was product manager of the System Architect product at IBM, Telelogic, and Popkin Software. Lou has published several papers in the field, including whitepapers and articles on DoDAF and TOGAF, coauthored the UML Bible, and was technical editor on UML for Dummies. Lou has an engineering background and worked for 9 years at Unisys on radar systems such as NEXRAD, air traffic control systems, and fire control systems.
Eric G. Hutson Bio
- 20+ Year Information Technology Experience as Senior Systems Engineer, Project and Program Management and Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Architect for The Department of Justice Executive Office For United States Attorneys
- Former Director of Enterprise Architecture For Catamaran. A Fortune 100 30 Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Benefits Management Company
- Former Enterprise Architect for The Department of Human Resources for the State of Maryland
- Technical Project Manager for 1 Billion IT Infrastructure for the NEDIS Line off the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Technical Project manager For Enterprise Cloud implementation of the National Weather Service (NWS) Line office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Lead Technical Project Manager For DDRS (Digital Dental Radiology System) Completing 480k Miles of travel visiting everyone Air Force Base in the world changing Dental x-ray system from film to digital radiology
- Lead Engineer For Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Project. 9 Billion Dollar project upgrading every Navy NOC Facility in the world.
- Currently mapping inputs and outputs for Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management and Delivery and Project Portfolio Management for true enterprise information Technology performance and portfolio management