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, Planguage, for specifications