It takes a lot of planning, development and testing before a software application is declared suitable for commercial purposes. Unlike the age of 70’s when Internet Marketing was in its nascent stage, we live in a world where software and internet have changed the way we do business. As software requirements become more and more complex, it sometimes takes tremendous amount of time to design, develop and deploy an application . In some cases, the business requirements of an organization become outdated by the time the software application makes its way to production. It is in situations like this where Rapid Application Development started gaining grounds as a software development approach.

 

RAD is a linear sequential software development process that highlights the need for an extremely short development cycle to achieve speed and better quality. RAD is achieved using a component based approach. At Asahi Technologies, we employ the RAD model for projects with extremely innovative and complex business requirements and where there is a need for an extremely short development cycle.

 

• Prototyping – The first step in the process, Prototyping starts with the construction of an application’s blueprint before starting actual development.
• Iterative development – It Involves the development of one functionality characteristic leading to the next in a “stair stepping” process.
• Time boxing – The third element, aims at packaging features into the application that can complete iterative circles with great speed.
• Team members – The fourth element is to define the amount of manual power required to produce a good application and run it successfully.
• Management and RAD tools – The last element determines the management type and the speed with which the above features will be done on a timeline.

To speed up the application delivery process, we employ a variety of methods including, rapid prototyping, virtualization of system related routines, the use of CASE tools and other techniques.

At Asahi Technologies, we use RAD methodology for quality and on time delivery of an application. Through the involvement of user in the analysis and design stages, we assure the quality of the deliverables.