Experiences with the use of CASE-tools in The Netherlands
CAiSE '90 Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
A Tale of Two Countries: Case Experiences and Expectations
Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.2 Working Conference on The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies in Information Systems Development
On the evolution of quality conceptualization techniques
The evolution of conceptual modeling
Towards Method Component Contextualization
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
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In the 90's it was becoming apparent that a universal method thatcould be applied to 'any' information system development (ISD) project is amirage. Project specificity, differing application engineer skills and experiencelead to deviations from the prescriptions made by given methods. This was revealedby several survey based studies (e.g. [6], [1], [7], [4]). For example, asurvey of method use in over 100 organizations' [4] shows that more than 2/3of the companies have developed or adapted their methods in-house. Also 89%of respondents believed that methods should be adapted on a project to projectbasis. These observations raised the need for techniques to rapidly build methodsadapted to engineer preferences and project situations. The area of MethodEngineering (ME) attempts to provide these techniques. Method engineering represents the effort to improve the usefulness of systemsdevelopment methods by creating an adaptation framework wherebymethods are created to match specific organisational situations. There are atleast two objectives that can be associated to this adaptation. The first objectiveis the production of contingency methods, that is, situation-specific methods forcertain types of organisational settings. This objective represents method engineeringas the creation of a multiple choice setting [3]. The second objective isone in which method engineering is used to produce method "on-the-fly". Situationalmethod engineering [5] is the construction of methods which are tunedto specific situations of development projects. Each system development startsthen, with a method definition phase where the development method is constructedon the spot.