Federated Model Management

Presenter: Tony Mallia, Senior Enterprise Architect, Odyssey Consulting There are a number of drivers which show a movement away from centralized architecture towards a federated set of models which integrate. The availability of modeling to the Stakeholder requires easier to understand notation and the mechanism to segment the problem space towards stakeholder collaboration. In UAF, primary stakeholders may be the Actual Organization Resources exhibiting Capability in scope. Other stakeholders include Requirements and Acquisition staff Vendors Testers Operational and user documenters/trainers Deployment and Configuration Mgmt Technical support Operational management and Issue resolution Security Stakeholders can create or consume models. Four axes of segmentation are being considered: Organizational Capability Acquisition components and resource project management Specialization – Operational, Physical, Electrical, Hydraulic/pneumatic, Digital Classification – security domains Some subject areas need segmentation and others need consolidation. Regardless, the models have relationships where the role is consumer or producer for a particular exchange. An exchange between models is constructed with a Proxy Façade pattern so that the visibility of exchange is contained in these model parts. A test of this structuring is being worked using the Maritime Search and Rescue example which is refactored at a high level to demonstrate Federation by Organization. Become a member: https://www.omg.org