Evo Principle 1:

Discussion:

Real results means something that the stakeholder can use in their daily immediate work.

For example: the product is faster; easier to use; more reliable; has more useful function.

Real stakeholders are real people, both colleagues and customers, who have some interest in and use from what we are producing. By giving real results to real stakeholders we can find out in a realistic way whether they get what they want and need, whether it works as intended, and whether there are some new needs perceived as a result of the handover experience.

Early means 'next week' for many cases. It means in the first 2% of expenditure of time and money for the larger project.

Frequently means weekly or in 2% of total project time increments. It can even mean daily as in daily builds of a system being made available to in house stakeholders.

Example:
'In parallel with the development activities of the team, selected users or customers of the system are working with and providing feedback on the release from the previous cycle. This feedback is used to adjust the plan for the following cycles.' Todd Cotton, HP Journal August 1996.
'The NPD team also found a range of hidden beliefs - on the part of both managers and engineers - that contributed to project cost and schedule overruns. For instance, they found that managers typically favored and funded high profile, potentially lucrative products, called 'grand slams' that required heavy investments but often failed to sell, over those based on incremental improvements on existing products that promised slow but steady growth, otherwise known as 'base hits'.' From page 101, Deone Zell, 'Changing by Design: organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard', Cornell, 1997.