SBIR Phase I: Knowledge-Based Adaptive Software Development Methodologies

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目建立在一个研究项目的基础上，该项目调查基于过程的软件开发工具和方法的设计。该项目将开发下一代这种软件，以原则性的方式支持软件开发方法的创建、改进和调整，同时保持快速创新的需要。BORK(构建经验的组织存储库)软件开发方法独特地提供了基于项目经验的两个级别的过程适应。该系统允许个人开发工作创建已定义流程的实例，并对其进行定制以满足项目需求。这是通过一个基于规则的系统来完成的，该系统以一种可以很容易地用于评估潜在过程改进的项目经验的方式正式地捕获项目决策。这些经验被用在一个基于反馈的框架中，该框架完善了已定义的流程，以满足组织的新需求。这个第一阶段研究项目的目标是提炼概念，并在可用于评估性研究的稳定版本的钻孔系统中实施它们。这些研究将被用来评估潜在商业化的整体方法的可行性。本项目中研究的创新方法具有当前方法或工具中找不到的灵活性和纪律的正确组合，到目前为止，这些方法或工具对行业的影响最小。该项目的成功还有可能对软件开发组织以外的组织产生影响。它已经在教育环境中使用，并且足够通用，可以应用于在当今基于快速、客户驱动的商业环境中面临动态生产和设计流程的许多行业

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project builds on a research program investigating the design of process-based software development tools and methodologies. The project will develop a next generation of this software that supports the creation, refinement, and adaptation of software development methodologies in a principled manner while preserving the need for rapid innovation. The BORE (Building an Organizational Repository of Experiences) software development approach uniquely provides two levels of process adaptation based on project experiences. The system allows individual development efforts to create an instance of a defined process and tailor it to meet project needs. This is accomplished through a rule-based system that formally captures project decisions in a manner that can easily be used to assess project experiences for potential process improvements. These experiences are used in a feedback-based framework that refines the defined process to meet the emerging needs of the organization. The objectives of this Phase I research project are to refine the concepts and implement them in a stable version of the BORE system that can be used in evaluative studies. These studies will be used to assess the feasibility of the overall approach for potential commercialization. The innovative approach investigated in this project has the right mix of flexibility and discipline not found in current methodologies or tools, which have had minimal impact on the industry thus far. Success of this project also has the potential for impact beyond software development organizations. It has already been used in educational settings and is general enough to be applied to a number of industries that face dynamic production and design processes in today's fast-based, customer driven, business milieu