  Software Engineering practitioners work using highly diverse methods and
practices, and general theories in software engineering are lacking. One
attempt at creating a common ground in the area of software engineering
methodologies has been the Essence Theory of Software Engineering, which can be
considered a method-agnostic project management tool for software engineering.
Essence supports the use of any development practices and provides a framework
for building a suitable method for any software engineering context. However,
Essence presently suffers from low practitioner adoption that is partially
considered to be caused by a lack of proper tooling. In this paper, we present
Essencery, a tool for essentializing software engineering methods and practices
using the Essence graphical syntax. Essencery aims to facilitate adoption of
Essence among potential future users. We present an empirical evaluation of the
tool by means of a qualitative, quasi-formal experiment and, based on the
experiment, confirm that the tool is easy to use and useful for its intended
purpose.
