A REUSE FRAME FOR METHOD ENGINEERING
Isabelle Mirbel · 2006
Method engineering aims at providing effective solutions to build, improve and support evolution of development methodologies. Different approaches have been successively proposed to provide suitable support to information system and software development but little research has focus on how to tailor such methodologies when used as organization-wide standard approaches. Situational Method Engineering, which aims at providing techniques and tools allowing to construct project-specific methodologies, do not fully answer the need of project customization inside the boundary of an organization-wide methodology. Indeed, two levels of customization are required: the first copes with the customization at the organization level and the second one deals with project/individual customization. Our work is part of a complete framework for situational method engineering which answers this twofold need. In this paper we present the Reuse Frame, a polymorphic and scalable structure to help in better centering the methodological environment on method users and method requirements and allowing to take advantage of situational method engineering and reuse perspectives. It helps in supporting and personalizing access to methodology for method engineers when customizing methods into organization-specific methods and to method users when configurating an organization-specific method to answer their personal method requirement need.