K EELE DESMET UNIVERSITY New Perspectives 2001 SGL

K EELE DESMET UNIVERSITY New Perspectives © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

Why is the Original DESMET not enough K EELE UNIVERSITY Reports from project and SIGSOFT Notes not sufficient Some aspects need to be turned into guidelines New Work QEA superseded by work of Koller Surveys of all types improved Guidelines for Empirical Studies © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

Presentation K EELE UNIVERSITY Some work done to make DESMET material more easily available Introduction EMS Case Studies Generated as a web site distributed on CD Needs funding to complete and extend © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

New Work K EELE UNIVERSITY Koller Risk Based Assessment of Choices Replaces QEA Needs work to turn it into DESMET Guidelines © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

New Work K EELE UNIVERSITY Work on Surveys never done in original DESMET Number of People in published documents Ph. D Thesis etc undertaken incorrectly making survey invalid Initial working document produced needs more to turn it into Guidelines © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

New Work K EELE UNIVERSITY Guidelines for Empirical Studies Produced by Original DESMET team plus others to provide equivalent to guidelines applied in other disciplines. Any publication of DESMET should include this. © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

Automation K EELE UNIVERSITY Most methods don’t succeed until they get technological support. Most of DESMET is capable of quite simple support Either Expert System Question filled templates Analysis Support Data Collection Support Metrics Support © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology

Summary K EELE UNIVERSITY DESMET works as far as it goes Needs Dissemination Needs Updating Needs Extension Needs Automation How do we achieve this ? © 2001 SGL The DESMET Methodology