Configurable Method Model of Agile Methods - for Creating Project-Specific Methods

The research focuses on Agile Method configuration process that supports an Essentiality attribute for the agile methods. Since, these methods adhere to a set of practices it's hard to produce a generic model for the purpose. It was noted, that software development community has adopted method configuration to form project-specific method for agile methodology but have not treated the ‘notion of essentiality’ in a method. The consequence of this is that The relationship between the original method and configured method is not fully explored. Thus, the extent to which a method can be configured, remain unanswered. This demands a full investigation into what can be configured into which method. The agile values defined in the agile manifesto are seen to define ‘essentialities’ in these methods. Further to configure a method for an agile project, each project is considered individually. The project characteristics provide support to the method engineer for deciding the ‘variability in the methods’.