Exercise 2: Finding some common ground

Question

Describe the steps involved with the Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping Approach as it applies to developing a Web application. How is it related to agile development?

Answer

The Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping Approach to development is an iterative approach that involves use of the application to test and develop it further. There are 4 main phases to the approach. These are:

• Gather requirements and data
• Implement prototype
• Validate and get user feedback
• Iterate

These 4 phases are repeated until the application meets the requirements (Schreiber, 2000, p.379).

It emphasizes more on creating prototypes and verifying it against the user to later determine whether the prototype is sufficient for the solution or if there is any improvements and/or adjustments that needs to be made to it.

Agile development is evolved from Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping. Both Agile development and Rapid Evolutionary Prototyping uses rapid, frequent solution delivery and validation to the user

References:

Schreiber, G. (2000). Knowledge Engineering and Management 2nd Edition: MIT Press