Most organisations document their development methods in wikis and Word documents — producing sprawling, inconsistent, and poorly connected artefacts that practitioners ignore or work around. This paper describes a goal-driven method engineering workbench built on the EVA platform, developed in response to exactly this problem at a large financial services organisation. By grounding methods in agreed goals rather than prescribed tasks, and delivering them through a single-page interactive portal, the approach makes method content genuinely accessible, maintainable, and tailorable to project type and practitioner role.
Agility is a Stable Requirement
Agile methods have delivered real value in accelerating software delivery, but they address only a fraction of what organisational agility actually requires — and even within IT, speed of delivery is just one dimension. This white paper argues for a broader framework built around three complementary strategies: doing less (leveraging packages, components, and reference models); doing things faster (Agile, DevOps, automation); and making more flexible things (runtime-adaptable and domain model-driven systems). It also tackles the challenge of achieving agility in organisations burdened with large legacy application landscapes.