OPEN Process Framework Repository Organization (OPFRO)

Description

The OPEN Process Framework Repository Organization (OPFRO) is a non-profit foundation consisting of methodologists, process engineers, developers, academic researchers and educators, tool vendors, and others who volunteer their efforts and expertise to advance process engineering by maintaining, extending, promoting, and distributing the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) and associated repository, the world’s largest repository of free, public-domain, object-oriented, and open source reusable method components.

Mission Statement

The mission of the OPFRO is to advance the practice of method and process engineering by providing industry and academia with reusable method components that can be selected and integrated to produce endeavor-specific methods for the development and operation of software-intensive systems.

Organization

The OPFRO is currently divided into the following overlapping teams of volunteers:

• Executive Steering Committee, which:
  • Sets the vision and direction of the OPFRO
  • Develops the OPFRO operating procedures
• External Process Engineers, who:
  • Identify opportunities for improving the process components
  • Develop and submit enhancements to the existing process components
  • Develop and submit new process components
  • Make recommendations to the executive steering committee and website staff
• Change Control Board (CCB), which:
  • Provides configuration control to the repository of reusable process components
  • Provides configuration control to the OPFRO website
  • Assigns submissions to appropriate subject matter experts for review.
  • Decides if submissions are accepted, returned for changes, or rejected
  • Pass on accepted submissions to the repository library or website staff for inclusion
• Subject Matter Expert Reviewers, who:
  • Review submissions for incorporation into the repository or library
  • Advise the CCB regarding the quality and appropriateness of the submissions
• Repository Staff, who:
  • Maintain the official repository of process components
  • Incorporate accepted submissions
• Website Staff, who:
  • Maintain the official website
  • Incorporate accepted submissions

Membership

The OPFRO is an organization of volunteers that is open to any person with the willingness, experience, and expertise to perform any of the tasks of the organization. Everyone is welcome to volunteer to join any of the OPFRO teams. Naturally, everyone is also welcome to submit recommended changes to the method components or the repository without becoming an official member of the OPFRO. Submissions are especially welcome if they provide new or improved method components and follow the current content and format standards for the specific component type.