Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

Keys to Success in Using Throwaway Prototyping

Here are the keys to using the Throwaway Prototyping practice successfully:

• Choose your prototyping language or environment based on how quickly it will allow you to create throwaway code.

• Be sure that both management and technical staffs are committed to throwing away the throwaway prototype.

• Focus prototyping efforts on areas that are poorly understood.

• Treat prototyping activities as scientific experiments, and monitor and control them carefully.