Methodology Management System - Definition and Overview

Methodology Management System (MMS) is an emerging technology that facilitates the modeling, deployment and continuous improvement of human-centric knowledge intensive business processes, like methodologies, best practices, recommendations, techniques, etc...

It is not focused on automating tasks, but on transmiting information to people who perform the work and making it easy for them to access any kind of resources they need during the process execution.

Using a MMS it is possible to have different methodologies belonging to different business disciplines (for example RUP for Software Development and the PMBOK for Project Management) in the same format being it possible to understand the way in which they are related to each other.

MMS suppliers

Rational Software (http://www.rational.com) was the first to introduce the MMS philosophy in its software development methodology RUP (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rup/)

Nevant (http://www.nevant.com) pioneered the MMS concept with its product metoCube methodology management system (http://www.nevant.com/en/metocubemethodologymanager.php).

TenStep (http://www.tenstep.com) has a methodology management system based on the PMBOK