Method engineering

Research on method use (cf. Wijers and van Dort 1990, Smolander et. al. 1990, Aaen et al. 1992, Aalto 1993) reveals that situations cause changes to methods and organizations develop their own version of methods.

The second dimension in our taxonomy, type of development situation, distinguish two types of ME:
- organization based ME, and
- project based ME.

Research on method use (cf. Wijers and van Dort 1990, Smolander et. al. 1990, Aaen et al. 1992, Aalto 1993) reveals that situations cause changes to methods and organizations develop their own version of methods.