@Article{cmc.2020.010959,
AUTHOR = {Fazal Qudus Khan, Saim Rasheed, Maged Alsheshtawi, Tarig Mohamed Ahmed, Sadeeq Jan},
TITLE = {A Comparative Analysis of RAD and Agile Technique for Management of Computing Graduation Projects},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {64},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {777--796},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v64n2/39329},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {Computing students face the problem with time and quality of the work while 
managing their graduation/senior projects. Rapid Application Development (RAD) model 
is based on continual user involvement for the process of requirement gathering via 
prototyping. After each iteration, the developers can validate the requirements that are 
completed in the iteration. Managing a project with RAD is easier but not flexible. On the 
other hand, Agile project management techniques focus on flexibility, agility, teamwork 
and quality based on user stories. Continual user involvement is avoided, which requires 
extensive maintenance time for fixing iteration and release of the story points. This also 
makes it necessary to provide onsite training to the users of the application. This research 
provides the pros and cons of RAD and Agile project management techniques, to help 
students in deciding the best approach for managing their graduation projects. For the 
evaluation of these techniques, similar case studies were given to the senior project 
students (having similar CGPAs) for building similar functionality-based applications. 
The two projects “Life Organizer” developed and managed using RAD and “Smart 
Patient Assistant (SPA)” developed and managed through Agile methodology were 
evaluated against the quality assurance criteria for senior projects. The study found that 
the project developed with RAD methodology performed 13.33% better in providing 
extensive and elaborated documentation than the students following the Agile technique. 
On the other hand, SPA-Agile based project, due to teamwork had 2.5% better 
implementation than Life Organizer-RAD based project.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2020.010959}
}