ME.Preface:5 - What this publication foregrounds and leaves outside

The framework foregrounds choosing and recovering the Method Engineering subject; qualifying candidates and comparing architectures; authoring and comparing descriptions and configuring enactment support; obtaining actual trial evidence and making separate judgments; maintaining variants, introducing Methods into practice and changing cultural continuation; and producing and using connected pattern-language knowledge. The last family is the PLUS-ME profile, not a restriction of the general framework.

It does not contain domain Methods, operating procedures, curricula, legal or safety decisions, software tools, repository designs, statistical identification procedures, or complete organizational-change programmes. Use their direct Methods and authorities. Open a neighbouring DPF only when its specialist result is needed; the Method Engineering framework does not assume that a sibling edition is available merely because its discipline is named.