Seyyedeh Sanaz Mousavi Monfared - Dept. of Computer Engineering, College of EngineeringUniversity of Science and Culture Tehran, Iran
Ali Kamandi - Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of Tehran Tehran, Iran

The wonderful evolutions of recent decades in the field of computer-mediated communication undoubtedly has made e-commerce as a certain assumption. In the field of e-commerce, the use of powerful software systems and providing business needs has great importance for survival. Agile methods ensure the acceleration of time to market , customer satisfaction and high quality of software . Selection of an appropriate agile method is based on a complex and multi-criteria decision which can have excellent consequences on the success of e-commerce systems. Engineering method is a method and engineering regulations that aims to design, construct and adaptation of methods, techniques and tools to develop information systems. Increasing development of Engineering Method and public welcome for constructing coincident methods and special for a private project, or an organization or a general method that fits the characteristics and needs of the software team, existence of right and systematic frameworks, codified rules and proper guidelines in process of method production are of the challenges that nowadays specialist of method engineering face with. This paper presents a framework for generalization of agile methods based on requirements for e-commerce applications which include three phases of starting, construction of methodology and ending and each phase includes a number of stages. The purpose of the proposed framework is to categorize and assess the needs of e-commerce and examination of present techniques and patterns in agile methods and selection of appropriate patterns to improve base agile method for e-commerce applications.

Agile methodologies, e-commerce, Acceleration of time to market, method engineering, supplying business requirements