Chapter 10. Evo

 

There is only one move that really counts: the next one.

 
 --Chess master Jose Capablanca

OVERVIEW

  • Classification of UP.

  • Workproducts, roles, and practices.

  • Demonstrate Planguage for Evo specifications.

  • Common mistakes, adoption and process mixtures, strengths and weaknesses.

Evo (short for Evolutionary Project Management) is perhaps the oldest IID method with a significant agile and adaptive quality, first taking shape in the 1960s and then published in 1976. Evo emphasizes:

  • short iterations, with evolutionary delivery each iteration

  • evolutionary requirements and design

  • adaptive client-driven or value-driven planning

  • quantifiable measurements of value and progress

  • defining all quality requirements with numeric measures

  • optional use of a language, ...

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