FME Technique for Reduced Method Rejection

Abstract

In situational method engineering (SME), there are two core intentions that method engineers look for: 1) a set method engineering goal that is the kind of method needed and 2) a method allowing him to satisfy this goal. This chapter can capture method engineering's goal using a generic process model (GPM) that guides the method engineering in the definition of his project method engineering goal and in the selection approach that best allows him to achieve it. The authors wish to move to functional method engineering so as to explore the context of method engineering/situational method engineering more fully based on functional and non-functional method situation. The implications of the approach on CAME tool design are considered and illustrated through a running example.