Method-user-centred method configuration

Abstract

Method engineering approaches are often based on the assumption that method users are able to explicitly express their situational method requirements. However, similar to software requirements,situational method requirements are often vague and hard to explicate. In this paper we address the issue of involving method users early during method configuration. This is done through borrowing ideas from user-centred design and prototyping and implementing them on the method engineering layer in a computerized tool support. This tool has proven useful in eliciting situational method requirements in a continuously ongoing dialog with the method users during configuration work-shops.