Creating high-quality, project-specific methodologies using method engineering
Interest in the industrial adoption of processes and methodologies is growing. Rather than seeking a one-size-fits-all methodology, we can identify influences and commonalities that can be incorporated into a repository of method fragments as part of a method engineering approach to the construction of a high-quality, project-specific methodological approach to software development. Using the OPEN Process Framework as an exemplar, and in the context of software process improvement (SPI), I will demonstrate the value of method engineering in creating support for modern software development.
BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS
BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author of ten books on object technology and is well-known for his work in OO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE), OO metrics and meta modelling. More recently, he has chaired workshops at OOPSLA and AOIS on agent-oriented methodologies. He is Editor of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and on the editorial board of Journal of Object Technology and Software and Systems Modelling. He is also the founder of the NSW OOSIG. In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of London for his research contributions in object-oriented methodologies.
