CM Strategies for RAD

  • Authors:
  • Darcy Wiborg Weber

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SCM-9 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on System Configuration Management
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

SCM provides many well-known benefits for traditional software development. It enables software teams to develop quality software in a timely and predictable manner. However, some teams who are doing Rapid Application Development, also known as RAD, sometimes feel that standard SCM processes have too much overhead for their quickly moving team members. In fact, some teams choose to forego SCM altogether when in rapid development mode, because they think it slows them down. Is RAD really incompatible with SCM? This paper explores the relationship between SCM and RAD, provides some strategies to keep SCM from hindering RAD, and describes some ways in which SCM can help teams develop applications more rapidly.