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2nd EPF Committers Meeting

Bilbao, Spain - Mar 6-7, 2006

-      We provided an overview of the EPF project, and what it means to be a contributor / committer in the project.

-      Each organization articulated their planned contributions.

-      We agreed to an action list around evolving BUP.

-      We agreed to an action list around development of an MDA plug-in.

-      We agreed to hold next European face-to-face meeting in late May / early June.

•         Sander Hoogendoorn, Capgemini (Monday only)

•         Henk Kolk, Capgemini

•         Julian Holmes, Capgemini

•         Christoph Steindl, Catalysts

•         Asier Azaceta, ESI

•         Aitor Bediaga, ESI

•         Jason Mansell, ESI

•         Terry Bailey, ESI

•         Cesar Gonzalez, ESI

•         Per Kroll, IBM

•         Bruce MacIsaac, IBM

•         Winfried Stenzel, Method Park

•         Philippe Desfray, Softeam  (Monday only)

•         Cees Michielsen, Telelogic

•         Ana Pereira, Whatever Consulting Group

–        EPF motivation and organization (Per)

–        OpenUP / BUP - Walkthrough and Discussion - (Bruce)

–        Tool – Demo and Discussion - (Per) 

–        Capgemini

–        DSDM (even though DSDM had to cancel last second, they did provide information about their planned contributions, which was presented)

–        Catalysts

–        ESI

–        Method Park

–        Softeam

–        Telelogic

–        Whatever Consulting Group

–        A great meal, with local cider, and huge steaks!

– A BUP enhancement discussion took place, see Evolving BUP

– An MDA Workgroup was established, and they had their first meeting. See MDA Workgroup minutes

–        See <Topics Covered>.

-      Produce concrete examples when you want to produce process guidance.

o       Ana to produce examples on Use Cases, Business Rules, Software Architecture, etc.

o       Julian to harvest training samples for plug-in.

o       Ask contributors to always produce examples.

-      Document example process guidance (Jim Ruehlin)

-      Author guidelines, which should point out the essence of including examples (Margaret Hedstrom / Ricardo Balduino)

-      Henk to find people in Capgemini that can assist us in user experience

-      Make tool context-sensitive / process enactment. Tool knows the status of each work product.

-      Provide testimonials from “converters” that like EPF

-      Leverage “Podcast” and multimedia technology

-      Meta-model concepts are explained in Base Concepts Plug-in

-      OpenUp should have a glossary

-      As the agile component is finding traction, we should see if there are low-hanging fruits where we can agree on ‘shared views” and concepts. An example would be that we should have phases (but maybe not agree on what those phases are).

-      File any defects or enhancement requests through Bugzilla

-      Get engaged by participating in the tools/meta-model component team.

-      Within the context of a process (delivery process or capability patterns), you can define entry and exit stage of a work product

-      You can create a delivery process with only work products and states, and not leverage tasks

-      Opportunity to contribute what states we should have for different artifacts, and how to leverage state transitions to manage change. (Julian to investigate whether he / Capgemini can contribute).

-      Margaret Hedstrom just published a version on how to use IBM Rational Method Composer (IBM’s commercial version of EPF) with a configuration mgmt tool (available through IBM DevWorks). Ricardo Balduino worked on a cleaned up version for EPF, posted in the web site (EPF and Version Control).

-      EPF 1.0 may include integration with configuration mgmt tools. (TBD)

-      Need to baseline BUP every iteration so plug-ins can move forward.

-      Bruce to arrange a session on how to use CVS and Bugzilla.

-      Each person to provide Per and Naveena with the correct logo for their company for EPF website and for a slide summarizing committers. Per or Naveena will post updated slide to epf-dev mailing list and update website with active companies

-      We agreed that we need to identify means of recognizing contribution.  Some options to put recognition into donated content are using author field, about pages, and copyright appendage to recognize companies.

-      Christoph will start some discussion on attracting agile alliance to EPF.

-      Late May or early June for next European face-to-face meeting.  Preference for having a company play host in order to control cost.