Method Engineering

Kalle Lyytinen is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Method Engineering focuses on the design, construction and evaluation of methods, techniques and support tools for information systems development It addresses a number of important topics, including: method representation formalisms; meta-modelling; situational methods; contingency approaches; system development practices of method engineering; terminology and reference models; ontologies; usability and experience reports; and organisational support and impact.

1 Keynote paper: a primer to method engineering.- 2 Structural artifacts in method engineering: the security imperative.- 3 Characterizing IS development projects.- 4 Towards an integrated environment for method engineering.- 5 A functional framework for evaluating method engineering environments: the case of Maestro II/Decamerone and MetaEdit+.- 6 Method rationale in method engineering and use.- 7 How to compose an object-oriented business process model?.- 8 Human work as context for development of object-oriented modeling techniques.- 9 Translating OMT* to SDL, coupling object-oriented analysis and design with formal description techniques.- 10 Lazy functional meta-CASE programming.- 11 A practical strategy for the evaluation of software tools.- 12 Core objects required for a generic CASE repository.- 13 A proposal for context-specific method engineering.- 14 Comparison of four method engineering languages.- 15 Method engineering: who's the customer.- 16 Simulation-based method engineering in federated organizations.- 17 Keynote paper: information systems development: a broader perspective.- 18 A classification of methodological framework for computerized information systems support in organizations.- 19 Method engineering: current research directions and implications for future research.- 20 Panel: reengineering method engineering?.- 21 Panel: method engineering: experiences in practice.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.