Using Method Engineering to Make a Traditional Environment Agile

Posted April 30, 2007 | Leadership |

Many software development organizations have a growing realization that they need a more formal process than "seat of the pants." They are aware that many development methods are overly bureaucratic and unhelpful, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. They hear that agile processes may help, but how do they make the transition to a modern-day process? How do they determine how much agility the agile processes on offer today really possess? How do they determine how much agility they need, anyway?

About The Author
Brian Henderson-Sellers
Brian Henderson-Sellers is director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author of 11 books on object technology and is well known for his work in OO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE) and in OO metrics. He has been a member of the official OMG review team for both UML and SPEM. In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was… Read More
Asif Qumer
Asif Qumer is a PhD student (in software engineering) at COTAR, Faculty of Information Technology, UTS, where he studies agile and agent methods in the context of method engineering and quality assessment. He has been working in the software industry for more than five years. Mr. Qumer can be reached at asif at it.uts.edu.au.
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