Design-to-Tools
The design-to-tools lifecycle model is a radical approach that historically has been used only within exceptionally time-sensitive environments. As tools have become more flexible and powerful—complete applications frameworks, visual programming environments, full-featured database programming environments—the number of projects that can consider using design-to-tools has increased.
The idea behind the design-to-tools model is that you put a capability into your product only if it's directly supported by existing software tools. If it isn't supported, you leave it out. By "tools," I mean code and class libraries, code generators, rapid-development languages, and other software tools that dramatically reduce implementation time. ...
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