2009-06-08 TSC Call Agenda

TSC - Technical Steering Committee

Monday, June 8, 2009 11:00 AM (US Eastern Daylight Time, GMT -5)
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Attendance

Expected

• Chair: Charlie McCay
• CTO: John Quinn
• Domain Experts: Austin Kreisler (primary), Ed Tripp (alternate)
• Foundation & Technology: Ioana Singureanu (primary), Woody Beeler (alternate)
• Structure & Semantic Design: Calvin Beebe (primary), Gregg Seppala (alternate)
• Technical & Support Services: Ken McCaslin (primary), Helen Stevens Love (alternate)
• Affiliate: Ravi Natarajan
• ARB: Charlie Mead (primary), John Koisch (alternate)
• Ad-Hoc: Jim Case
• HQ: Lynn Laakso

Invited

• Charles Jaffe (CEO)
• Ed Hammond (HL7 Chair); Bob Dolin (HL7 Vice Chair)
• Marc Koehn (EA IP)
• Karen Van Hentenryck (HQ)

Agenda

1. (5 min) Meeting Admin
   1. Roll Call -
   2. Accept Agenda -
   3. Approve Minutes from
      • 2009-06-01 TSC Call Minutes
   4. Review action items –
      • From 20090512: Regarding the Document cover sheet Woody asked do we convert all the ballot title pages on the ballot site to this format?
2. (20 min) Standing Committee Reports/Approvals
   1. CEO Report -
   2. CTO Report -
      • EA IP Update
   3. ArB Report -
   4. Affiliates Report -
   5. Domain Experts -
   6. Foundation & Technology -
      • proposed RASCI (Responsible, Accountable, Supportive, Consulted, Informed) chart discussion to manage the apparent overlap between various work groups and projects in our Steering Division: Draft RASCI chart. We would like to propose the approach and a first draft chart. In view of great upcoming changes, it may be useful to use RASCI charts for the entire organization collaboratively with the work groups to identify the responsibilities and interests of various stakeholder. A RASCI chart approach may be used for other new, cross-cutting activities initiated by the TSC.
      • Project Insight and GForge cost-benefit analysis - from listserv thread
   7. Structure & Semantic Design -
      • Request to publish DSTU: Financial Management; FICR Special Authorization, see request, at TSC Tracker 1059
   8. Technical & Support Services -
3. (30 min) Discussion topics
   • Open Issues List
   • Technical Newsletter call for articles - deadline June 23rd to Karen Van Hentenryck
   • Requiring NWIP and HL7 Project Scope Statements to include a table of related products and projects, and to describe the intended scope boundary and joint maintenance approach for each
   • Tabled Motion:The TSC provide a structure and format guideline for three year plans to the WGs that describes the content detail required for their own project guidance and decision making processes.
     • Why do three year plans?
     • How do we provide linkage and feedback to the Roadmap (and the Roadmap Task Force)?
     • Project Insight and GForge cost-benefit analysis - from listserv thread - can we use this for three-year planning
   • Review and discuss Work Group Health documents, and determine a plan to agree what the metrics should be in the spreadsheets, and what we show on the Monday evening cochairs meeting in Atlanta