SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING APPLIED FOR THE ENACTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES An Agent Based Approach

in: Funchal-Madeira, Portugal; 8-12 June, 2010 Proceedings of ICEIS 2010 – Twelfth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Interdisciplinary product development is faced with the collaboration of diverse roles and a multitude of interrelated artifacts. Traditional and sequential process models cannot deal with the long-lasting and dynamic behavior of the development processes of today. Moreover, development processes have to be tailored to the needs of the  projects, which are usually distributed today. Thus, keeping these projects on track from a methodology point of view is difficult. In order to deal with these challenges, this paper will present a novel method engineering and enactment approach. It combines the ideas of workflow technologies and product line engineering for method engineering as well as agent technology for the development process enactment.