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CBDi Forum Journal - December 1997 The Role of RAD in CBD At First Sight RAD and CBD are Mutually Exclusive RAD is based on compartmentalisation and empowerment of the project team to deliver business benefit as fast as possible. CBD is based on massive reuse, acquisition, collaboration, integration and evolutionary application strategies. The first wave of structured methods advocated a top-town, waterfall approach. Understand the problem, before you build a solution - a sensible idea. However, this turned into a problem for two reasons: First, ‘scope creep’ led to confusion over where did the problem ended. Before long you were analysing the entire organisation. Second, ‘par |