Radical Project Management

Rapid Planning

The concept of team-driven project management leads to the process of RAP sessions. In the early 1980s, AT&T experimented with a technique for systems analysis and design that it termed FAST. This technique involved the analysis and design of information systems using key clients and expert systems analysts. By “brainstorming” in an intensive team session (usually less than five days), the process of systems analysis and design could be dramatically shortened with improved quality.

In IT, the FAST technique is now more widely recognized as joint requirements planning (JRP) and joint applications design (JAD). These team-driven techniques, coupled with the use of applications generators and integrated computer-aided software engineering ...