Title:
Towards Method Engineering
for Agile Software Development:Theory and Practice
Abstract: Since their introduction at around the
turn of the millennium, agile methods have taken the software process research
and practice by storm. However, despite their wide and ever-expanding acceptance,
many of those methods have limitations in terms of the types of projects
they could support. In parallel, there is mounting evidence that creating
a method that is optimum for every software project is unattainable and impractical.
In this paper, we propose not the selection or the adoption of a single agile
method but the adoption and diffusion of a well established and recognized
method framework in which an organizational methodology is constructed from
method fragments using the concepts of method engineering. This paper briefly
reports on a case study of introducing method engineering using the OPEN
process framework to construct an agile method for a multi-national legal
publishing company who realized the need for a flexible and customizable
method for their many projects.