Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Keynote Talks

   1. Domain-Specific Modeling: The Killer App for Method Engineering?

      • Steven Kelly

      Pages 1-5

   2. Method Engineering: Trends and Challenges

      • Colette Rolland

      Pages 6-6

   3. Supporting Situational Method Engineering with ISO/IEC 24744 and the Work Product Pool Approach

      • Cesar Gonzalez-Perez

      Pages 7-18

3. Fundamentals

   1. Multi-Grounded Action Research in Method Engineering: The MMC Case

      • Fredrik Karlsson, Pär J. Ågerfalk

      Pages 19-32

   2. Situational Method Engineering

      • Tobias Bucher, Mario Klesse, Stephan Kurpjuweit, Robert Winter

      Pages 33-48

   3. Examining Key Notions for Method Adaptation

      • Mehmet N. Aydin

      Pages 49-63

4. Situational Method Engineering

   1. Method Chunks Selection by Multicriteria Techniques: an Extension of the Assembly-based Approach

      • Elena Kornyshova, Rébecca Deneckère, Camille Salinesi

      Pages 64-78

   2. Reuse Mechanisms in Situational Method Engineering

      • Jörg Becker, Christian Janiesch, Daniel Pfeiffer

      Pages 79-93

   3. Developer Driven Approach to Situational Method Engineering

      • Antero Järvi, Harri Hakonen, Tuomas Mäkilä

      Pages 94-99

5. Meta-modelling Approaches

   1. Characterizing Knowledge Intensive Tasks indicating Cognitive Requirements; Scenarios in Methods for Specific Tasks

      • S. J. Overbeek, P. van Bommel, H. A. Erik Proper, D. B. B. Rijsenbrij

      Pages 100-114

   2. Partial Evaluation in Meta Modeling

      • Manfred A. Jeusfeld

      Pages 115-129

   3. Representation of Method Fragments

      • Anat Aharoni, Iris Reinhartz-Berger

      Pages 130-145

6. Perspectives on Method Engineering

   1. Taxonomic Dimensions for Studying Situational Method Development

      • Mehmet N. Aydin, Frank Harmsen, Jos van Hillegersberg

      Pages 146-160

   2. Component-based Situational Methods

      • Yves-Roger Nehan, Rébecca Deneckere

      Pages 161-175

   3. Connecting method engineering knowledge: a community based approach

      • Isabelle Mirbel

      Pages 176-192

7. Method Quality

   1. Situational Method Quality

      • Liming Zhu, Mark Staples

      Pages 193-206

   2. Complete Methods for Building Complete Applications

      • Naveen Prakash

      Pages 207-221

   3. Process Patterns for Agile Methodologies

      • Samira Tasharofi, Raman Ramsin

      Pages 222-237

8. Domain Specific Methods

   1. Domain-specific Adaptations of Product Line Variability Modeling

      • Deepak Dhungana, Paul Grünbacher, Rick Rabiser

      Pages 238-251

This proceedings volume contains the papers of the scientific program of the IFIP Working Group 8.I working conference on Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences. The conference has been held from 12 to 14 September 2007 at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Since the early 1980s, the IFIP WG8.1 working conferences have provided a forum for the presentation and exchange ofresearch results and practical experiences within the field of information systems development methods. After two successful Method Engineering conferences in Atlanta in 1996 and in Kanazawa in 2002, it is now time again to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in and give a state of the art overview in Method Engineering. The conference programme features three invited keynote presentations, paper presentations and one interactive panel session. Besides, tutorials have been arranged to learn about the basics of Method Engineering. The format of a working conference allows for extensive paper discussions featured by discussant reviews in plenary sessions. Over the last decade Method Engineering, defined as the engineering discipline to design, construct and adapt methods, including supportive tools, has emerged as the research and application area for using methods for systems development.

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• organization
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• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Jolita Ralyté

• Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  Sjaak Brinkkemper

• University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Brian Henderson-Sellers

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