%0 Journal Article
%T Laboratory Driven, Lean-to-Adaptive Prototyping in Parallel for Web Software Project Identification and Application Development in Health Science Research
%A Zachary Dwight
%A Alexa Barnes
%J Journal of Software Engineering and Applications
%P 62-68
%@ 1945-3124
%D 2012
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jsea.2012.52010
%X Clinical research laboratories, bioinformatics core facilities, and health science organizations often rely on heavy planning based software development models to propose, build, and distribute software as a consumable product. Projects in non-agile software life cycles tend to have rigid ˇ°plan-design-buildˇ± milestones, increasing the amount of time needed for software development completion. Though the classic software development approach is needed for large-scale and organizational projects, clinical research laboratories can expedite software development while maintaining quality by using lean prototyping as a condition of project advancement to a committed adaptive software development cycle. Software projects benefit from an agile methodology due to the active and changing requirements often guided by experimental data driven models. We describe a lean to adaptive method used in parallel with laboratory bench work to develop quality software quickly that meets the requirements of a fast-paced research environment and reducing time to production, providing immediate value to the end user, and limiting unnecessary development practices in favor of results.
%K Agile Software Development
%K Bioinformatics
%K Lean
%K Prototyping
%K Adaptive
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=17474