Back in the day (as if that was really that long ago for me ;), “rapid application development” used to be a phrase that was used to describe the amount of time we could take an idea and get it into a functional prototype in order to evaluate its utility.
That reads terribly, terribly boring.
Think of it this way:
How fast can you take an idea, turn it into a functional prototype, and determine if it sucks or not?
In general, RAD approaches to software development put less emphasis on planning tasks and more emphasis on development.
Maybe that fits with more of the cultural norm than, say, 15 years. ago. Anyway, there were tools like Visual Basic that made this easy.
Admittedly, I was a little young to grok what all of this was about, but I read a lot, and I tinkered with Visual Basic from 3.0 up to .NET so I was pretty familiar with the language and how the whole system worked.
But enough of that kind of talk. Here’s the question: How can we apply rapid application development within the context of WordPress?
Furthermore, is it possible to apply it in a way that allows us also to iterate on a product (free or not being irrelevant) without only evaluating its value to our users?
