A semantic data model for methodology engineering

An approach to a structured and disciplined specification of methods in information systems development (ISD) is presented. The methods are particularly relevant to software engineering and project management. Emphasis is placed on the underlying model to specify such ISD knowledge. This proposed methodology representation model and the corresponding MERET tool are intended to build a computer-aided methodology engineering tool that supports methods specification and further development. ISD modeling is discussed and compared to other approaches in the literature, and four concepts for methodology engineering are outlined. The authors then focus on the first two concepts, a semantic data model to structure and to model methodology knowledge in ISD, as well as specification diagrams.<<ETX>>