Abstract:
Adopting the most appropriate methodology for particular software developments remains
a challenge for all industrial IT organizations. Previous attempts to promote a single approach
as useful for all occasions has proven untenable. Rather, a combination of a metamodel
and a repository of process/method components ("method engineering") provides a more efficacious
approach, particularly as elements of the method engineering approach are able to be
automated. In this paper, we advocate the use of method engineering, illustrating its utility by the
construction of methodologies at various levels of process capability.
