November Skyline Luncheon - Architecture Compliance

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Past Event: This event was held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Architecture Compliance

featuring

Elliot Chikofsky
EM&I Fellow, Engineering Management & Integration

Next Skyline Luncheon Brown Bag

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 from 11:30am to 1:00pm
(Networking 11:30am-12:00pm, Presentation 12:00pm to 1:00pm)

Note: All Skyline luncheons are now held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

Location and Cost

Skyline Bailey's Crossroads luncheons are free to attend, and preregistration is not required.

Skyline Office Complex
Skyline 6, Suite 800, Conference Room A

5109 Leesburg Pike

Falls Church, VA 22041

About the Program

Architecture Compliance

How can we prove that our systems actually follow the architectures they are supposed to?

Architecture compliance is difficult to assert with confidence, hard to prove convincingly, and too easy to disavow. Through the use of the Architecture Compliance and Requirements Traceability (ACART) process, we have learned a lot about the nature of architecture conformance and how agencies and service components can assert and demonstrate compliance in a practical and cost-effective way.

The methods that have emerged apply to many kinds of architecture-based requirements for systems, including the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA).

About the Speaker

Elliot Chikofsky
EM&I Fellow, Engineering Management & Integration

Elliot Chikofsky is EM&I Fellow at Engineering Management & Integration (Herndon, VA). He has advised on Information Technology (IT) investment and portfolio management, enterprise architecture, and systems management for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL), Federal Aviation Administration, IBM's AD/Cycle initiative, and many corporations and industrial enterprises.

Over 30 years, he has been a noted expert on reengineering, reverse engineering, software tools and CASE environments. Chikofsky is Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering, directing IEEE's software engineering conferences, and chairs the Reengineering Forum industry association.

Based on the Boston area, he also teaches undergrad and graduate information systems engineering for University of Phoenix and Northeastern University.

About Skyline Luncheons

All Skyline luncheons are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. They begin at 11:30am with a 30 minute unstructured networking session. At 12:00pm, after a short introduction and after we've dealt with some administrative matters, the presentation begins. The presentation ends at 1:00pm.
Join our Yahoo Group by sending an email with your name, and organization to: SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. On our list we provide copies of past presentations, directions to our lunch location in Baileys Crossroads, and two email reminders per month.
Our Yahoo Group SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC@yahoogroups.com is an announcement-only type list not used for general email. So you will only receive a limited amount of email and only from the Skyline Baileys Crossroads Lunch meeting moderator, Charles Hermann.
For more information about the Skyline Lunch meeting send an email with your question to SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC-owner@yahoogroups.com

Directions and Map Link

Skyline Office Complex
5109 Leesburg Pike, Suite 800,
Falls Church, VA 22041

NOTE: Virginia Route 7 is Leesburg Pike (in Falls Church and Fairfax County) and is also King Street (in Alexandria) at different stretches.

Directions to 5109 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041-3215

From Tyson's Corner:

Take Route 7, Leesburg Pike, for about 7 miles and turn right onto South George Mason Drive (just after the entrance to the Target parking lot).
Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign. Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.

From Washington DC or National Airport:

Take I-395 South towards Richmond.
After the Glebe Road and Quaker Lane exits, take Exit 5 for Route 7, King Street, West. You will go through 10 traffic lights that are very close together.
Turn left onto South George Mason Drive. Skyline Tower is the 26-story light blue glass building.
Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign. Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.

From Dulles Airport:

Take the Washington Dulles Access Road towards Washington.
Take 495 South towards Richmond

After passing exits for Tyson's Corner, I-66, Route 50, Braddock Road and I-95 South, take I-395 North (left exit) towards Washington.

Take Exit 5, King Street, West. You will go through 10 traffic lights that are very close together.

Turn left onto South George Mason Drive. Skyline Tower is the 26-story light blue glass building.

Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign.

Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.