Selecting the appropriate application development methodology
Richard N. Burns, Alan R. Dennis · ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems · 1985
This paper synthesizes many of the recent articles about prototyping and contrasts prototyping with the more traditional systems life cycle approach to application development. As some projects are more suited to one methodology than the other, this paper presents a contingency approach, based on project size and project uncertainty, to selecting the most appropriate application development methodology for a given project.