Some great posts are already out there around the Big Question for January: Quality vs. Speed. You can find them listed in the post. One thing that is definitely clear from the posts so far is that there seems to be a really difference of opinion around:

• While you may be able to reduce development time via rapid tools, can you speed up analysis and design and still maintain quality?

• Does iteration work? When?

• If we didn't have constraints on time/cost, would we really be our own worst enemy?

• Is quality, speed, cost and learning really like sliders that as you push one up others must go down?

There also are quite a few questions that the responses raise in my mind that I'm still grappling with...

• What do you do when you are in an organization that only wants low-quality, rapid - even if it only checks the box? In other words, do you fight What the Client Wants? (see also Wendy's comments)

• When is SME (or end-user) produced content with rapid tools the right answer?

I plan to do another couple of posts on this topic and related topics, but this has been pretty interesting already.