JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 10(4): 326-358, doi: 10.3217/jucs-010-04-0326
Process Construction and Customization
expand article infoBrian Henderson-Sellers‡, Magdy Serour‡, Tom Mcbride‡, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez‡, Lorraine Dagher‡
‡ University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Corresponding author: Brian Henderson-Sellers ( brian@it.uts.edu.au )

© Brian Henderson-Sellers, Magdy Serour, Tom Mcbride, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Lorraine Dagher.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Henderson-Sellers B, Serour M, Mcbride T, Gonzalez-Perez C, Dagher L (2004) Process Construction and Customization. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 10(4): 326-358. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-010-04-0326
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Abstract
Adopting the most appropriate methodology for particular software developments remains a challenge for all industrial IT organizations. Previous attempts to promote a single approach as useful for all occasions has proven untenable. Rather, a combination of a metamodel and a repository of process/method components ("method engineering") provides a more efficacious approach, particularly as elements of the method engineering approach are able to be automated. In this paper, we advocate the use of method engineering, illustrating its utility by the construction of methodologies at various levels of process capability.
Keywords
design methods, design, software process