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.
LiveMethod: A Model and Infrastructure for Empowering Methods Use in Organisations
Most organisations adopt development methods with good intentions, but find them too complex, too static, and too disconnected from day-to-day project work to deliver lasting value. This paper presents LiveMethod — a model-based infrastructure that treats methods as living, intranet-delivered resources, tightly linked to the project artefacts produced from them. It addresses the practical challenges of method deployment, tailoring, and evolution in large, distributed organisations.