Defining Adaptation Criteria

The Adaptation criteria are used to determine the recommended degree of rigor with that the software procedure should be applied on a project. 11 adaptation criteria are described for software projects:

• Size of the project

• Number of potential users

• Mission critically

• Application longevity

• Stability of requirements

• Ease of customer or developer communication

• Maturity of applicable technology

• Performance constraints

• Non Embedded or embedded characteristics

• Project staffing

• Reengineering factors

Each and every of the adaptation criteria is assigned a grade which ranges among one and five where one represents a project in that a small subset of procedure tasks are needed and over all documentation and methodological of needs are minima one and five represents a project in that a overall set of procedure tasks should be applied and overall documentation and methodological needs are substantial