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Rapid Application Development (RAD) and AGILE
Our team is focused on helping to get your product to market in the quickest time possible while maintaining quality. In order to facilitate this process and not produce "adhoc" products, we use two processes for quick delivery over our full system development life cycle.
Below is information that will help provide understanding to the success of Brinex software development:
What are Iterations?
An iteration is the activities necessary to produce a release. Muiltiple iterations produce the final product. In basic form, an iteration is a small subset of all the development phases: Requirements, Analysis & Design, Implementation, and Test.
This is very important to understand because using iterative development allows for product releases to occur rapidly thereby allowing the testing and user communities to begin visualizing what the final product will look and feel like long before it is determine "complete".
The methodology also allows for the early identification of issues, defects, and useability issues. Integration and installation problems that normally do not rear their nasty catalog of issues until the end of the project during deployment will be seen and dealt with early on in the project.
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Rapid Application Development (RAD)
The days of taking 6-12 months to see results from a software development project are rapidly coming to an end, if they haven't already. There are to many variables that could effect the process, environment, business, etc. before the end of the project. These variables can result in and inadequate or even unusable system.
To help alleviate these issues Rapid Application Development has become popular in assuring project success through iterative development. Essentially, it is a way of speeding up application development.
Rapid Application Development, or bettern known as RAD programming, is a methodology by which products can be produced iteratively. This means that something is delivered quickly and progress can be seen, even functionality can be used early on in the project life cycle, through prototypes until the final product is delivered.
RAD allows the technology team to define the scope of the project, identify the iterations and begin working immediately in lieu of the older methodologies where the entire systems is designed on paper and then developed. As each iteration is finalized, based on priority, the complete system begins to take shape. Tasks that normally could not be completed until the end of the project can most likely be completed during any stage of the product.
RAD begins with the End Goal in mind. "Organize and perform activities according to their priority" (Stephen Covey). All iterations are working toward the same goal. The graph below demonstrates a RAD cycle:
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AGILE
A great quote stated, "An agile software development team can add features in any order and can release a working version of the product at any iteration. "
This means that the team is not glued to the requirements as requirements do change. Our team has yet to work on a project that didn't require some factor of change during the development life cycle. It's an information technology fact of life.
An AGILE team can produce releases in as little as every 10 days! This is very important distinction for your business is that your end user community can begin using features immediately rather than waiting months for a major release.
We develop and deploy AGILE teams! The success is through collaboration, communication, true knowledge and experience (doing what we are good at), and project management acumen.
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