Booklet and Presentations on Evolutionary Project Management Methods

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Booklets
Reading advice: first read Booklet # 7, then  8, then 2, then  4, then  3 and  1.
(paper 6 if you're interested in Human Behavioral issues; booklet#7 is #5 improved)

  • Booklet 1 Evolutionary Project Management Methods, version 1.4b, Aug 2007 (pdf, 263 kb)
    Issues and first experience gained at Philips, Belgium, in 2001.
  • Booklet 2 How Quality is Assured by Evolutionary Methods, version 1.0g, June 2008 (pdf, 251 kb)
    More recent practical experience, based on coaching some 25 projects in 9 organizations. Originally prepared as paper for the PNSQC conference, Portland-OR, USA, October 2004.
  • Booklet 3 Optimizing the Contribution of Testing to Project Success, version 1.1b, Aug 2007 (pdf, 222 kb)
    How to change the focus of testing from injection-find-fix to prevention. Originally prepared as paper for the PNSQC conference, Portland-OR, USA, October 2005.
  • Booklet 3a Optimizing Quality Assurance for Better Results, version QA0.1, Nov 2005 (pdf, 193 kb)
    How to change the focus of QA from injection-find-fix to prevention. Based on Booklet3, but now targeted to a non-software audience.
  • Booklet 4 Controlling Project Risk by Design, version 1.04a, June 2008 (pdf, 583 kb)
    Risk management, the Evo way. Originally prepared for Rose-City SPIN meeting March 2006.
  • Booklet 5 TimeLine: Getting and Keeping Control over your Project, version 1.04, March 2008 (pdf, 304 kb)
    Originally prepared as paper for the PNSQC conference, Portland-OR, USA, October 2007.
  • Paper 6: This may become Booklet 6: Recognizing and Understanding Human Behavior to Improve Systems Engineering Results, June 2008 (pdf, 112 kb)
    Prepared for APCOSE 2008, Yokohama, Japan, September 2008.
  • Booklet 7:Evo Planning or How to Achieve the Most Important Requirement, version 1.2, July 2009 (pdf, 473kb)
    Prepared for INCOSE International Symposium, Singapore, July 2009. This is an improved version of Booklet5 (TimeLine), with more emphasis on Systems Engineering (although applicable to any other project), more emphasis on what to do if there isn't enough time to do what we think we have to do, and added section on "Predicting the Future" in the Calibration chapter. Version 1.1: Estimation chapters are now included. Version 1.2: Summarizing TimeLine chapter added. Note that Booklet#5 can still be interesting for the 26 step TimeLine process description.
  • Booklet 8:Help! We have a QA Problem! version 1.0, June 2009 (pdf, 145 kb)
    How we solved a half-year Testing backlog in 9 weeks.

Great article by Ryan Shriver about the Evo Requirements and Design approach:

Tutorial/workshop handouts

SkillsMatter See a 100 min video recording of a presentation, held 6 Nov in London at SkillsMatter.
Handout: Evolutionary Project Planning - How to Get and Keep your Project on Time
  • EuSEC Tutorial, 23 May, Stockholm
  • Evo University Course, as used in a 4 day, 13 x 90 min course at Keio University in Yokohama, February 2010 (pdf, 4.5 Mb)
  • Evo Workshop handout, as used in Shanghai, Feb 2010 (pdf, 3.1 Mb)
  • Review & Inspections course, Spring 2008 (pdf, 2446 kb), as used at clients (this course doesn't only teach Inspection types, but also what we can do about the problems we find)
  • TimeLine poster, elements of TimeLine booklet in poster form, Spring 2008 (pdf, 533 kb), used at SEPG Europe, Munich, June 2008
  • Handout IKD course "Successful Planning of Software Projects", Spring 2008 (pdf, 1709 kb), used for ICT Kring Delft. Slides in English.
  • Evo Workshop handout used at the INCOSE SE Conference, Israel, March 2007
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  • Presentation of Oct 12 used at the PNSQC2004, Portland, OR, USA
  • Selection of posters to glue to a wall or door for all to see, study and remember (pdf 44 kb)

Case Study:

  • Evolutionary Methods (Evo) at Tektronix by Frank Goovaerts and Doug Shiffler, Tektronix Inc. (pdf, 317kb)
    Extract from the Proceedings of the PNSQC conference, Oct 2006.
    This paper documents how we implemented Evo Planning at Tektronix.

ETA - Evo Task Administrator tool
 

Evolutionary Development Methods allow Software and Development Projects, Systems Engineering projects, and actually any project, to be successfully delivered on time easily in a 30% shorter time than usual. If you don't believe it, let me show you how you can do it! Based on the experience of coaching and teaching over 100 projects in 25+ organizations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Romania, South Africa and the US, I am so sure that it will work also for you, that I use a no-cure no-pay guarantee.

(Software) developers systematically fail to manage projects within the constraints of cost, schedule, functionality and quality. Solutions have been developed during the past 40 years, with important results published already over 30 years ago. Still, in practice not much has changed. The challenge is to find ways to catch the practical essence of solutions and ways to get the developers to use these solutions.
In the booklets we show methods and techniques, which do enable developers and management to successfully managing projects within the constraints of cost, schedule, functionality and quality. These methods are taught and coached in actual development projects with remarkable results.
While software development results were usually delivered late, the delays in other disciplines (like hardware and mechanical development) seemed to be non-existent. Now that we have taught Software Development to deliver Quality On Time (the right things at the right time and within budget), the delays in the other disciplines become exposed. The methods and techniques described in this booklet are obviously not limited to just software development. For those projects where delivering Quality On Time is important it is about time that we are going to apply the techniques at the Systems Development level. Therefore the next target for Evolutionary Development Methods will be Systems Engineering.
Note that the contents of the booklets describe ongoing developments. The methods are being used by the author with various clients and are continuously being optimised based on results found.

Other material on Evolutionary methods:

Read Tom Gilb's 10 Evo Principles: click here.

For more explanation about Evolutionary Development project organisation, see the Evo pages. This material is mostly covered by the booklets introduced above.