Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Rapid Application Development
     
         (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
        team}s, {timebox development}, and {Re-use} of applications,
        templates and code.
     
        {RAD at BSO/Den Haag
        (http://www.riv.nl/origin/company/denhaag/RAD.HTM)}.
     
        ["Rapid Application Development", James Martin].
     
        (1995-09-23)