Evolutionary project planning

Rick Davies just posted Evolving storylines: A participatory design process?, a fascinating description of the evolutionary process of iterated variation, selection and retention applied to project planning, to project evaluation, and to storytelling. He raises more questions (for me, at least) than he answers, for he points at a range of variations one can try to see what works best in any one situation.

I think I'll look for opportunities to try it out.