Process Construction and Customization

Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Australia)

Magdy Serour (University of Technology, Australia)

Tom McBride (University of Technology, Australia)

Cesar Gonzalez-Perez (University of Technology, Australia)

Lorraine Dagher (University of Technology, Australia)

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.

Keywords: design, design methods, software process

Categories: D.2.10, K.6.3