Information systems development (ISD) methods are commonly engineered by integrating method components from existing methods into a new or a current methodical body. Finding suitable components and integrating them into a coherent, consistent and applicable ISD method requires that the purposes and conceptual contents of method components are described in a strict manner, typically through metamodeling. In this paper we present a contextual view of method component which, based on the contextual approach, expresses, more closely than earlier presentations, semantic features of those parts of an ISD context which are involved by method components. We also show, with a large example, how method integration can be carried out based on this contextual information of method components.
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Leppänen, M. (2007). Contextual Method Integration. In: Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W.G., Zupancic, J., Magyar, G., Knapp, G. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70802-7_8
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