Component-Based Situational Methods

Method Engineering aims to bring effective solutions to the construction, improvement and modification of the methods used to develop information and software systems. Several authors tried to design methods that would be as effective and as adapted as possible to the development needs of information systems. This goal was not always reached, especially because the methods were not always well adapted to projects specificities. The situational methods were designed to correct this weakness. The situational approach finds its justification in the practical field analysis which shows that a method is never followed literally. The discipline of Situational Method Engineering (SME) promotes the idea of retrieving, adapting and tailoring components, rather than complete methodologies, to specific situations.