Agile service development: A rule-based method engineering approach

Stijn Hoppenbrouwers*, Martijn Zoet, Johan Versendaal, Inge Van De Weerd

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Abstract

Agile software development has evolved into an increasingly mature software development approach and has been applied successfully in many software vendors' development departments. In this position paper, we address the broader agile service development. Based on method engineering principles we define a framework that conceptualizes an operational way of working for the development of services, emphatically taking into account agility. As a first level of agility, the framework contains situational project factors that influence the choice of method fragments; secondly, increased agility is proposed by describing and operationalizing these method fragments not as imperative steps or activities, but instead by means of sets of minimally specified, declarative rules that determine the context and constraints within which goals are to be reached. This approach borrows concepts from rules management, organizational patterns, and game design theory.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEngineering Methods in the Service-Oriented Context - 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011, Proceedings
Pages184-189
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011 - Paris, France
Duration: 20 Apr 201122 Apr 2011

Publication series

SeriesIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume351 AICT
ISSN1868-4238

Conference

Conference4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period20/04/1122/04/11

Keywords

  • agile service development
  • business rules
  • business rules management
  • game design
  • method engineering
  • product management

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