Portal projects can greatly benefit from WEF's ability to quickly put together models or portlets to demonstrate or to help you define several aspects of a portal solution.
We have been successfully using the approach of developing modest Proof of Concepts (POCs) or prototypes for many years now. The benefits yielded by this approach can be easily quantified and they can represent gains to every area of the project.
For discussion purposes, these benefits can be broadly grouped into two categories according to the teams to which they cater.On one hand the development of small models or portlets would be geared to the product management and business analysis teams. These groups would refer to this effort as prototyping. So, in this sense we would be extending the regular usage of WEF to prototyping.
The following list indicates how the product management and business analysis teams can utilize WEF prototypes to assist them with their goals:
Determine the feasibility...