SBIR Phase I: Knowledge-Based Adaptive Software Development Methodologies

这个小企业创新研究阶段I项目建立在一个研究程序的基础上，该程序调查了基于过程的软件开发工具和方法的设计。该项目将开发该软件的下一代，该软件以有原则的方式支持软件开发方法的创建、细化和适应，同时保留快速创新的需要。BORE（构建有组织的经验存储库）软件开发方法根据项目经验独特地提供了两个层次的过程适应。该系统允许个人开发工作创建已定义过程的实例，并对其进行裁剪以满足项目需求。这是通过一个基于规则的系统来完成的，该系统以一种容易用于评估潜在过程改进的项目经验的方式正式捕获项目决策。这些经验在基于反馈的框架中使用，该框架对已定义的过程进行细化，以满足组织的新需求。第一阶段研究项目的目标是完善这些概念，并在可用于评价研究的BORE系统的稳定版本中加以实施。这些研究将用于评估潜在商业化的整体方法的可行性。在这个项目中研究的创新方法具有当前方法或工具中没有的灵活性和纪律性的正确组合，迄今为止对行业的影响最小。这个项目的成功对软件开发组织之外的组织也有潜在的影响。它已经在教育环境中使用，并且足够普遍，可以应用于许多行业，这些行业在当今快速的、客户驱动的商业环境中面临动态的生产和设计过程

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