The Wheel And Spoke Model is a sequentially parallel software development model. It is essentially a modification of the spiral model that is designed to work with smaller initial teams, which then scale upwards and build value faster. It is best used during the design and prototyping stages of development. It is a bottom-up methodology.

The Wheel And Spoke Model

The wheel and spoke model retains most of the elements of the spiral model, on which it is based. As in the spiral model, it consists of multiple iterations of repeating activities: Routine changes and additions are eventually seen by every program that uses the common code, and the experience gained by developing the prototype for the first program is shared by each successive program using the prototype.

Applications

The wheel and spoke is best used in an environment where several projects have common architecture or feature-set that can be abstracted by an API.

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