Software development method tailoring at Motorola

The nature of software development and method tailoring at Motorola (CO) is studied. There are essentially two types of tailoring at the project level such as tailoring planned up front and recorded as part of the project plan and dynamic tailoring criteria invoked as the project geometry changes. The tailoring decision Project Re-Plan Required is expected to be taken after the Perform Impact assessment activity has been completed. Method engineering research suggests a meta-method process whereby methods are precisely constructed from existing discrete predefined and pretested method fragments.