Digitalisation affects all areas of organisations including processes, methods, tools, roles, or information flows and results in frequent changes with short intervals. In engineering projects (EP), new methods, and process improvement are important. Reflection, as a dynamic process between consciousness and activities (Jobst et al., 2020), has proven to enhance processes by offering benefits for team performance, team innovation and team effectiveness. In this paper, reflection is not aimed only at the solution but at the structured action and thus an active participation process of action. However, despite the high relevance and ongoing discussion about agility in engineering design, reflection as an agile method is rarely established in EP. While a plenty of reflection methods is described in the literature, only a few consider the entire Method EcoSystem (i.e. method use, context, design goals, information artifacts, and design outcomes) relevant when adapting and improving EP. To address the analysis and adaption of methods and design processes within existing Method EcoSystems, this paper considers the objects and process of reflection form an engineering point of view. Following a framework established in earlier work, a Reflection Canvas is proposed as a tool to raise awareness and structure and support reflection activities to implement new methods, adapt processes and improve collaboration in EP. Therefore, the analysis reflects on the tactical (development team) and operational (development team member) level and focusses on the three reflection dimensions social, process and goal. To assess the quality of the approach, we subjected it to a first practical test. The proposed canvas was evaluated to be helpful. On the one hand, the results illustrate the relevance of structured reflection in organisations. On the other hand, support for planning (e.g. in documentation or clarification of responsibilities) for implementation in everyday work is given.

Process modelling (PM) is used to support designers by providing guidance on what needs to be done. Change processes in development organizations accompany introduction of new procedures, new methods (also digital form), tools that have to integrated into existing processes. Objective of this paper is to provide guidance to designers in selecting the appropriate PM language to support structured changes in processes. Requirements are derived from frequent change needs in SME and a PM morphology is provided assisting the selection and use of suitable PM languages for change processes.

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Systems Engineering (SE) is becoming increasingly relevant in industrial application since more stakeholders are involved in engineering activities. To implement SE, companies have to adapt existing engineering processes and methods. This adaption requires knowledge about new methods as well as their integration into the engineering activities. In order to ensure goal-oriented identification of methods for different SE activities in this contribution an action field profile and the Systems Engineering Method Matrix are proposed. The development of both tools is driven by the assumption that most SE activities and methods can be described based on the artefacts the deliver. In order to get feedback about the proposed tools, semi-structured interviews with two industry partners were conducted, focussing on the tool's usability. These interviews underline the basic usability of the tools and their support to identify SE activities to be supported by (new) methods. Moreover, requirements for further development and adaption are derived from the interviews.

Considering transformation processes within organizations, reflection is an enabler for learning and adaption of engineering processes, methods, and tools. Moreover, reflection as a core element of agile engineering approaches. However, a sound understanding of reflection behaviors of engineers or engineering teams is lacking. In this paper we proposed a structured reflection procedure including different dimensions to reflect on. To analyse reflection behavior of engineers and engineering teams we propose a coding scheme comprising of nine behaviors. The coding scheme allows to evaluate the reflection behavior in real time and give feedbacks to improve the quality of reflection. The proposed coding scheme is initially tested within a workshop with industry partners.