Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, 12-14 September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

This proceedings volume contains the papers of the scientific program of the IFIP Working Group 8.I working conference on Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences. The conference has been held from 12 to 14 September 2007 at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Since the early 1980s, the IFIP WG8.1 working conferences have provided a forum for the presentation and exchange ofresearch results and practical experiences within the field of information systems development methods. After two successful Method Engineering conferences in Atlanta in 1996 and in Kanazawa in 2002, it is now time again to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in and give a state of the art overview in Method Engineering. The conference programme features three invited keynote presentations, paper presentations and one interactive panel session. Besides, tutorials have been arranged to learn about the basics of Method Engineering. The format of a working conference allows for extensive paper discussions featured by discussant reviews in plenary sessions. Over the last decade Method Engineering, defined as the engineering discipline to design, construct and adapt methods, including supportive tools, has emerged as the research and application area for using methods for systems development.

Keynote Talks.- Domain-Specific Modeling: The Killer App for Method Engineering?.- Method Engineering: Trends and Challenges.- Supporting Situational Method Engineering with ISO/IEC 24744 and the Work Product Pool Approach.- Fundamentals.- Multi-Grounded Action Research in Method Engineering: The MMC Case.- Situational Method Engineering.- Examining Key Notions for Method Adaptation.- Situational Method Engineering.- Method Chunks Selection by Multicriteria Techniques: an Extension of the Assembly-based Approach.- Reuse Mechanisms in Situational Method Engineering.- Developer Driven Approach to Situational Method Engineering.- Meta-modelling Approaches.- Characterizing Knowledge Intensive Tasks indicating Cognitive Requirements; Scenarios in Methods for Specific Tasks.- Partial Evaluation in Meta Modeling.- Representation of Method Fragments.- Perspectives on Method Engineering.- Taxonomic Dimensions for Studying Situational Method Development.- Component-based Situational Methods.- Connecting method engineering knowledge: a community based approach.- Method Quality.- Situational Method Quality.- Complete Methods for Building Complete Applications.- Process Patterns for Agile Methodologies.- Domain Specific Methods.- Domain-specific Adaptations of Product Line Variability Modeling.- A Look at Misuse Cases for Safety Concerns.- Engineering Medical Processes to Improve Their Safety.- Process Improvement.- Software Process Improvement Based on the Method Engineering Principles.- Defining a Scope for COTS Selection Methods.- Developing a Reference Method for Game Production by Method Comparison.- Organisation Modelling.- Towards Evidence Based Splitting of Organizations.- A Formal Framework for Modeling and Analysis of Organizations.- Panel.- Modularization Constructs in Method Engineering: Towards Common Ground?.