Situational Method Fragment Selection and Composition

The approach presented in this paper is aligned with the method engineering approach which is used as a discipline for the definition of a methodology. There are several approaches implementing the ideas behind method engineering as stated by Henderson-Sellers but sketchily it is a discipline where there is a repository containing the building blocks for the construction of a methodology. This repository is composed by fragments or chunks which pros and cons are discussed in (B. Henderson-Sellers et al). Basically the method engineer selects a set of these components and relates them for the generation of a methodology. In our approach this selection is guided through a categorisation of method fragments describing the situation where a specific element is used. We have adopted SPEM2.0 as a process definition language and eclipse process framework as a tool support.