ConCall-20070130
T3F - Transitional Technical Task Force
Tuesday Jan 30, 2007 12:00 PM (US Eastern Time, GMT -5)
Contents
Present
Beeler, Blobel, Buitendijk, Lorenzi, McCay, Parker
Prior Homework
Review/update working items as:
- Review description of Technical Directorate from Strategic Task Force Documentation (http://www.hl7.org/rwj/documentcenter/Strategic%20Initiatives%20Recommendations%207-26-06.doc)
- An alternative description which may be more relevant and up to date is posted under the Governance page at: http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/wg/sito/SIIP%20Transition%20View%20of%20Org%20Model%20(3).doc
- CM_comments_on_TD_definition_from_Strategic_Recommendations
Accepted Agenda
- (05 min) Roll Call & Accept agenda
- (25 min) Core Challenges
- TD Organization, What is TD
- (10 min)Architecture
- (10 min) Document List
Core Challenges, particularly TD role & Organization
Whole meeting was devoted to discussion of this topic using two additional documents submitted by Lorenzi and Parker.
Charts from Virginia Lorenzi
Virginia Lorenzi had assembled a Power point of Charts that she prepared to reflect the TD relationships as they were expressed in either other charts or textual descriptions from th SI effort. These included:
- Simplified version of chart produced by ORC - Discussed why ARB, Cross-domain and PMO were separate from TD. Presume this is because it was felt that these were Board interests that were separable from TD.
- TD as presented by graphically by the consultants - Notes: PMO is part of TD; No overt resolution group (including ARB); Production (Ed, Tooling, Pubs added) and "Product Management" above the three areas.
- (Some discussion of what "Product" Management is (person, group, subset of TC chairs, etc.))
- In narrative, as noted, the Chairs of the three TC boxes are part of TD.
- Composition of TD, as presented in the consultants text - Suggests a good bit of "power" to CTO. However, the essence of the TD is to get and keep the organization moving forward in a coordinated fashion.
- Discussion of the CTO as a paid vs a volunteer position.
- Pros - Full attention to the problem;
- Cons - subsumes an influential position that volunteer leaders might aspire to and desire.
- Discussion of the CTO as a paid vs a volunteer position.
- Revised SI diagram based on feedback from Board and others - Notes: One worrisome feature is the "final authority" designation of the CTO. Note also, it includes the notion of a TSC.
Sketched chart from Craig Parker
Noting that the charts provided tended to mix and match between organizational responsibilities (hierarchy) and organizational relationships (horizontal), Craig Parker assembled a sketched chart that reflects both sets of relations on a single slide.
This wa discussed briefly. We concluded that a single format such as this is desirable as an end-product.
Comments from Charlie McCay on TD definition
Charlie McCay had prepared annotations on the TD definitions. The group agreed this is a good direction and would like to expand and refine this list in our next conference call.
Next Steps
Agreed for next meeting to:
- Use the source documents, Virginia's charts, and Charlie's notes to refine a list of TD:
- Responsibilities
- Relationships
- Consituencies
- Using the above, and the charts provided by Craig and Virginia to craft a refined chart for TD that the T3F can endorse.