AGILE: a methodology for Advanced Governance of Information services through Legal Engineering

To address agility in public administration, the Agile project developed a reference knowledge acquisition infrastructure for legal knowledge, based on a dynamic and design-oriented conceptualization of the legal system. The main objective of the project was to reframe legal knowledge as a knowledge source in a design-oriented task ontology, building on insights from the CommonKADS methodology for intelligent system design. The methodology makes case law, and legal expert knowledge of critical incidents in organizations -- two diagnostic knowledge sources underutilized in modern management and engineering -- more accessible as a resource for design of agile organizational structures and intelligent systems.