RAD was written in 1996 "Agile Development" (under that name, at least) didn't really appear on the scene til nearly the end of the decade Precursors to it we

RAD was written in 1996 "Agile Development" (under that name, at least) didn't really appear on the scene til nearly the end of the decade Precursors to it were there (spiral development, pair programming, etc) ... but kinda hard to write about something that didn't exist yet :)