The TM Forum Collaboration Community consists of staff from member companies who see the value in working together with a collection of service providers and vendors of all kinds to address business and technical industry issues.
The TM Forum has a wide range of projects in its Collaboration Community that create standards, guidelines, frameworks, and live that drive the industry towards common solutions for business and technical strategy, business transformation through automation and IT solutions, and software development for creation of easy-to-integrate standards-based OSS/BSS implementations.

Projects are conceived by TM Forum members then opened to contribution and team staffing/participation from all employees of our 650+ member companies.  Teams range from high level guidance and direction as provided by our Service Provider Leadership Council, Cable Interest Group Industry Liaison program and other industry focused efforts, to technical interface development from the TM Forum Interface Program, and everything in between.

At any given time, we have between 20 and 40 projects running.  New projects can start at any time.  Some projects are targeting a certain issue and have a short lifetime; others last for years and continue to build on solutions that are in use in the industry. 

Getting involved is as easy as visiting the members Collaboration Workspace to see which teams are working on projects that interest you and selecting the option to join the team. Your involvement can be as little as reading emails and contributing when you have an idea all the way up through leading a team of your industry peers to define a new industry standard. Most people contribute just a couple of hours a week, and even in that short time make a big difference in the industry.

Collaboration Community participants are also invited to attend twice a year in person meetings called “Team Action Week”, where members meet face to face for intensive discussion and debate about moving TM Forum work forward. Team Action Week is also the event where the NGOSS Users Group meetings are held. And in between in person meetings, you are always welcome to seek out other members though the online web communities, called Community Central.

All TM Forum output is created by the team representatives and all output documents, models and specifications are freely available to anyone employed by a member company. 

Make TM Forum standards work for you by getting involved!