Method configuration: adapting to situational characteristics while creating reusable assets

Karlsson, Fredrik; Ågerfalk, Pär J.

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2003.12.004

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“…Hence, we can use SOA principles and have benefits of SOA in the MOA domain. The other problem method engineers deal with is variability in the base method and configuring the method based on the target project for which some approaches have been proposed [6] [ 8]. On the other hand, software variability is a well-known problem in the software engineering community and many techniques and approaches have been proposed like feature modeling to manage the problem and various success stories in using product families and associated techniques have been reported.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture

Asadi

Mohabbati

Gašević

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The method engineering paradigm is motivated by the need for software development methods suitable for specific situations and requirements of organizations in general and projects in particular. Assembly-based method engineering, as one of the prominent approaches in method engineering, creates project-specific methods by (re-)using method components, specified with method processes and products, and stored in method repositories. This paper tries to address the two challenges of assembly-based method engineering related to more effective: i) publication and sharing of method components; and ii) management of variability in software methods, which have many commonalties. In order to address these two challenges, we propose the concept of Families of Method-Oriented Architectures. This concept is built on top of the principles of service-oriented architectures and software product lines.

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“…These approaches mostly focus on reusability and modularity principles. Besides this classification, Karlsson et al [8] proposed the Method Configuration approach (more general than extension based) in which a target method is created by adding/removing elements and features. They concentrate on variability management and reusability.…”

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Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture

Asadi

Mohabbati

Gašević

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Each of these atomic pieces is typically conformant to the conceptual definitions in an underpinning metamodel [5,6] and stored in a repository or methodbase ( Figure 1). Fragments are selected from the repository in order that the final, constructed method (or "process model": Figure 2) will meet the many project contingencies [7,8] in a way that an off-the-shelf method is not able to do. The constraints on fragment selection are at the heart of situational method engineering and are discussed by many authors (see, e.g.…”

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A Method Assessment Framework

McBride

Henderson‐Sellers

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Situational method engineering is used to create methods for use on projects. It is vital that such constructed methods be of good quality and relevant to the software development project in hand. Current capability assessment approaches cannot readily be applied to such SME-constructed methods since they do not differentiate between the three "phases" of method construction and enactment: method design, method enactment and method performance. Here, we clearly differentiate the kind of quality assessment activities that need to be performed in these three different situations.

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“…This is done through the focus a characteristic has on the rationale of a method; rationale that is expressed through the method components' interfaces. A characteristic is viewed as a question about one aspect of the development situation type [11]. This question can have one or more possible answers that constitute the characteristic's dimension; one possible answer is termed configuration package in MMC.…”

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“…The tool mentor working with these project teams found an inconsistency in the activity diagram that presented MMC's overall process structure [11]. One of the decision points in the diagram was placed illogically.…”

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

Karlsson

Ågerfalk

IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing

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There appears to be two schools of information systems development methods research that largely pursue their own agendas without many cross-references, On the one hand there is the method engineering research and on the other hand there is the method-in-action research, There seems to be much to be gained from integrating these two schools, developing knowledge that both has the formality (rigor) and reflects its enactment in practice, To achieve this, the research approach adopted has to embrace this duality, In this paper we explore how Multi-Grounded Action Research (MGAR) can contribute to achieving this aim, MGAR has been used in the development of a Method for Method Configuration, a research product that integrates the strengths of both schools,

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Method configuration: adapting to situational characteristics while creating reusable assets

Cited by 109 publications

References 14 publications

Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture

Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture

A Method Assessment Framework

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

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