Working-group member guide

This guide explains the common participation pattern for SPDTF working groups. It covers access, discussions, source material, meetings and model review without exposing private workspace links or treating participation as standards authority.

Access

Getting started

Understand registration, membership, invitations, accounts, roles and support.

Open page Discuss

Teams and discussions

Choose the right channel, keep one issue in one thread and use page comments appropriately.

Open page Contribute

Source material and SharePoint

Use the private organisation intake area and supply evidence with provenance and restrictions.

Open page Participate

Meetings and records

Prepare, contribute, support asynchronous follow-up and handle transcripts safely.

Open page Review

Model review and decisions

Challenge candidates in business language and understand who may decide what.

Open page

What is current, and what is proposed

The guide combines several decisions, but it does not give every source the same maturity. Use the status in this table when a detailed page refers to a process.

Area	Status	What members can rely on
Working-group topology	Accepted · ADR-0063	Eight modelling groups with bounded responsibilities.
Public recruitment	Accepted · ADR-0069	An expression of interest is reviewed before access is granted.
Teams and SharePoint pattern	Accepted · ADR-0070	A private Team for discussion and a separate, organisation-isolated evidence intake.
Email support and intake fallback	Accepted · ADR-0072	Bounded access support and screened attachments for authorised participants.
Evidence-to-model method	Proposed · ADR-0065	Useful working method, but not a ratified lifecycle. ADR-0065 remains proposed.
Consensus and ratification	Proposed · ADR-0068	Do not treat its stages or time windows as operative. ADR-0068 remains proposed.

Workspace status is not group authority

The Finance and Banking modelling workspace is implemented. The separate, cross-cutting Technology Working Group workspace is also implemented. The other seven modelling workspaces are planned. Technology Working Group is not a ninth modelling context and is not the Property Technology working group.

Implemented workspace infrastructure does not mean a group is convened, has agreed a model, or can ratify a standard. Each workspace page states its own roster, candidate and decision status; where these are not recorded, they remain unconfirmed.

Where to go next

Browse the eight group workspaces for scope, evidence, questions and review records. If you are not yet a member, the public working-group sign-up form records an expression of interest; it does not confer membership, Microsoft access or decision rights.