Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Rapid Application Development

RAD was a reaction to the 1980's Structured Design approach. Structured Design was very rigid in its approach, required much documentation and instilled that the whole system design be planned and designed at the beginning of the project. This made it difficult to re-evaluate previous decisions.

RAD was designed to respond to these challenges and deliver a quicker, more flexible solution to client demands.

There are three main types of RAD:

  1. Phased Development
  2. Prototyping
  3. Throw-away Prototyping.


 

More on these to follow...

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