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Rapid Application Development (RAD) | Analysis and Design

Rapid Application Development is a concept that products can be developed faster and of higher quality through:

  • Gathering requirements using workshops or focus groups.
  • Prototyping and early, reiterative user testing of designs.
  • The reuse of software components.
  • A rigidly paced schedule that defers design improvements to the next product version.
  • Less formality in reviews and other team communication.

Rapid Application Development usually embraces object-oriented programming methodology, which inherently fosters software reuse. The most popular object-oriented programming languages, C++ and Java, are offered in visual programming packages often described as providing rapid application development.

Select Business Solutions helps companies achieve this through tools, mentoring and methodologies which have been proven on many hundreds of customer projects.

Solution Breakdown

  • Document requirements and build early designs and prototypes with Select Solution Factory.
  • Manage the reuse of software components through Select Asset Manager and Select Asset Browser.
  • Select Solution for MDA - is a groundbreaking transformation and modeling tool designed to generate, reverse engineer and synchronize all your model viewpoints and your code, based upon Unified Modeling Language (UML) designs
  • Visit our Services area to see what courses and consultancy are available.
 
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