A Contingency Perspective on Effective Prototyping
本文探讨了原型开发中产品与过程视角的失衡，提出有效原型需兼顾非线性问题解决、技术与流程方案及组织支持，对选择原型技术和项目管理有指导意义。
Current demands on prototyping emphasize increasingly complex and dynamic applications that require sophisticated social mechanism and process enablers. However, much of the emphasis placed today in systems development under prototyping focuses on the supporting technology. The imbalance between product and process perspectives under this approach is explored. A view of prototyping effectiveness is presented in terms of non-linear problem solving, adequate technical and procedural solutions, and organizational support. Implications of this view are presented on the selection of prototyping techniques and on project management concerns. Future developments in prototyping practice are explored.