Avaion E3™ - Agile Solution Development

Based on the Adaptive Life Cycle, developed by James Highsmith, Avaion E3™ belongs to the family of Agile Methodologies. Rather than rigidly attempting to eradicate change, Avaion E3™ instead embraces change, seeing deviations as mile markers that guide stakeholders towards the correct solution, one that could not have been envisioned during the early planning phases of a project or process.

The Avaion E3™ Framework, illustrated below, consists of three phases: Envision, Execute, and Evaluate.

An important feature of Avaion E3™ is that it focuses on results, rather than tasks, by defining specific "Components" of a system and their relative quality characteristics. Then, through close collaboration with the business stakeholders, in short iterations or "Cycles", those components can be defined or re-defined as appropriate, with a focus not on constraints imposed by the original planning and system design, but rather on the specific, emerging needs of the business.

Avaion E3 Methodology

In his book, "Adaptive Software Development", Highsmith defines the overall benefits resulting from agile methodologies such as Avaion E3™:

Changing business needs are accommodated more easily.
Applications evolve in response to periodic feedback, resulting in a close match to customer requirements.
Customer benefits are generated earlier, because the customer gets components of the application more quickly.
Customers gain early confidence in the project.
The development process adapts to the specified quality profile of the product.
The risk that major failures will occur is reduced.

If you would like to learn more about E3™, or are interested in engaging Avaion in a custom development project, please contact us at sales@avaion.com.