Once the decision had been made to find a better way of doing things, there were three paths we could take.

• adopt an existing methodology

• adapt from an existing methodology

• build our own
  

The development team were divided on this issue. Some believe we should make it up ourselves, others said we should avoid re-inventing the wheel. It was clear we had to do some research to work out which was the best path for us.
At the time, there were no recognised web methodologies (although from recent research the situation hasn’t changed much). So, for adopting or adapting, we had little choice but to look at the existing software methodologies