Method engineering

Method engineering in the 'field of information systems is the discipline to construct new methods from existing methods'. It focuses on 'the design, construction and evaluation of methods, techniques and support tools for information systems development'.A process or capability in which human agents through responsive changes in, and dynamic interplays between contexts, intentions, and method fragments determine a system development approach for a specific project situation. Method engineering in the 'field of information systems is the discipline to construct new methods from existing methods'. It focuses on 'the design, construction and evaluation of methods, techniques and support tools for information systems development'. Furthermore, method engineering 'wants to improve the usefulness of systems development methods by creating an adaptation framework whereby methods are created to match specific organisational situations'. The meta-process modeling process is often supported through software tools, called computer aided method engineering (CAME) tools, or MetaCASE tools (Meta-level Computer Assisted Software Engineering tools). Often the instantiation technique 'has been utilised to build the repository of Computer Aided Method Engineering environments'. There are many tools for meta-process modeling.