Timebox Development's Interactions with Other Practices
Timebox Development is a specific kind of design-to-schedule practice (Design-to-Schedule). It is an essential part of RAD, which means that it is often combined with JAD (Chapter 24), CASE tools, and Evolutionary Prototyping (Chapter 21). Because Timebox Development calls for an unusual degree of commitment on the part of the development team, it is also important that each team member be Signed Up (Chapter 34) for the project.
Timeboxes can also be combined with Evolutionary Delivery (Chapter 20) if you need to define each delivery cycle more by the time you complete it than by the exact functionality you deliver. Similarly, shrink-wrap and other kinds of projects can use timeboxes as part ...
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