diff --git a/.cookiecutter.yml b/.cookiecutter.yml
index 42b83186..0f6c27fd 100644
--- a/.cookiecutter.yml
+++ b/.cookiecutter.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ default_context:
     use_bitbucket: "no"
     use_github: "yes"
     use_make: "yes"
-    use_paver: "yes"
+    use_paver: "no"
     use_pypi_deployment_with_travis: "no"
     use_pytest: "yes"
     use_rtd: "no"
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 88862a88..b3d478b7 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ git+https://github.com/nicfit/gitchangelog.git
 hg+https://nicfit@bitbucket.org/nicfit/sphinxcontrib-bitbucket
 ipdb==0.10.3
 nicfit.py[cookiecutter]==0.7
-paver==1.2.4
 pip-tools==1.11.0
 pss==1.41
 pyaml==17.10.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.yml b/requirements/requirements.yml
index 270631b1..73e67e4a 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.yml
+++ b/requirements/requirements.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ dev:
     - tox
     - twine
     - wheel
-    - paver
     - cogapp
     - sphinxcontrib-paverutils
     - pyaml