The Sprint Process for this
Workshop
Sprint Process
• This workshop will be using a process borrowed
from the GSIM Sprints
– Several attendees here were also involved in that
work
– The term “Sprint” is taken from the Agile style of
software development methodologies
• The key idea is that a Sprint is self-organizing
– Priorities are adjusted on an on-going basis
– The group is “self-organizing”
– Frequent plenaries and flexible assignments of
participants
“Sprintmeisters”
• There will be a small number of individuals who
will acts as facilitators
– Bill Block is the main facilitator
– Johann Finn will stand in for him today (Bill arives late)
– The organizers will also act in this capacity
• If you have concerns of any type, contact a
facilitator
– Facilitators are there to make sure that issues and
concerns are adressed, within the framework of the
workshop priorities
Organization of Groups
• Groups will be organized and re-organized
based on the perceived rate of progress and
priorities of the deliverables
– You may be asked to join a specific group or work
on a specific deliverable based on your skills and
knowledge
– This typically happens after a plenary, which occur
in the morning each day, and after lunch each day,
and may be called more frequently if needed
The Soap Box
• Each morning, we will allow up to four
presentations of no more than 3 minutes in
length
– These may be brilliant ideas you had while drinking in
the wine cellar the preceding evening
– These may be rants about specific issues
– They may be a combination of the above, or other
things…
• If you want to do a soap-box presentation,
contact a facilitator before the morning plenary
starts
The “Parking Lot”
• We will have a pad of paper available in the
main room at all times where participants may
suggest ideas for discussion
– Just put a brief outline of the idea (a bullet point)
on the list
– Talk to the facilitator – they will write it up!
• This helps us to make sure we don’t lose ideas
during the sometimes chaotic work going on
within the Sprint
Deliverables
1. Completed model templates for the 4 identified functional
areas
2. First draft of common model documentation based on the
completed templates
3. Draft design and specification of production process
4. Draft design principles for DDI work products
5. Documentation of DDI Alliance workflows
6. Draft XML syntax binding specification
7. Draft RDF syntax binding specification
8. Draft business rules specification for model transformations
9. Documentation of modeling style (includes UML profile)
Notes
• The deliverables from DDI will be better designed to
allow granular review and release
– Some outputs from this workshop may be released sooner
than you might expect
– We are using a “core-plus-extensions” style, so core has to
exist first (the functional areas identified for this
workshop)
• Content modeling has been de-coupled from technical
production and binding for this workshop
– We will present the modeling template (Word)
– We will be modeling whatever content is generated during
the workshop to validate modeling style and bindings
Modeling Template
• For each object, we will need to create a full
description
• This is captured (for now) in a Word template
• There will be a document per object
– There are a lot of objects!