Rapid Application Development
<programming> (RAD) A loose term for any {software life-cycle}
designed to give faster development and better results and to
take maximum advantage of recent advances in development
software.
RAD is associated with a wide range of approaches to software
development: from hacking away in a {GUI builder} with little
in the way of analysis and design to complete {methodologies}
expanding on an {information engineering} framework.
Some of the current RAD techniques are: {CASE} tools,
{iterative life-cycles}, {prototyping}, {workshops}, {SWAT
teams}, {timebox development}, and {Re-use} of applications,
templates and code.
RAD at BSO/Den Haag
(http://riv.nl/origin/company/denhaag/RAD.HTM).
["Rapid Application Development", James Martin].
(1995-09-23)