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The work presented in this paper is related to the situational method engineering domain, which focus on the project-specific method construction. The techniques proposed by this discipline aim to construct methods by assembling reusable method fragments. The selection of the method fragments is requirements driven. The first step in the situational method engineering consists in analysing the situation of the current project and specifying the requirements for a method supporting this situation. In this paper we propose an approach supporting the definition of the requirements for a situational method. The approach considers different method engineering situations and provides guidelines supporting method requirements definition in each of them. The application examples illustrate our approach throughout the paper.
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Ralyté, J. (2002). Requirements Definition for the Situational Method Engineering. In: Rolland, C., Brinkkemper, S., Saeki, M. (eds) Engineering Information Systems in the Internet Context. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 103. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35614-3_9
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