Concepts of The Original RAD Race ®

Seeing is believing:

is the (very) strong concept on which the RAD Race - The Original ® is built: "prove that you can do, what you claim to do". [see also Testimonial in English] [see also Testimonial in Dutch]

Not what software development tools promise but what they really deliver is important.

In other words: what works and what doesn’t ?

Why do software development tools exist in the first place ...

if not to enable and sustain the process of software manufacturing;
shorten the development time and in doing so,
reduce financial costs and cost to deploy, maintain and adapt the custom build software programs.
Finally, a good software development tool must also leverage (re)use of previous development efforts .

The RAD Race was initially created to verify these hypotheses:

A working program has to be programmed:

More specifically, The Original RAD Race ® is organised to be:

Realistic & Detailed: the setting describes a problem that is easy to grasp, but not easy to work out.
Fixed Time Frame: so that all teams start on the same conditions.
Administrative by Nature: The Original RAD Race is focused on delivering a business program, not on building an algorithm.
Structured Data: business programs must store their data in a functional and efficient way, therefore interaction with a "database" is implicit; but is not linked to a specific vendor and|or technology.