1. Destiny WebSolutions, Inc.
Ken Peffers
UNLV
November 2004

2. Management Problems
How can the project manager scale up from the use of informal methods while retaining a high level of flexibility in managing the IS project?
How can the use of the Pattern methodology be explained to Destiny’s consulting clients?

3. Material Issues
Staying ahead of the commoditization curve means evolving the firm toward new businesses regularly
Problem of balancing agility and process discipline. Informal methods don’t scale well
How should projects be managed to maximize the effectiveness of project work. Waterfall methods seem unsuited to innovation

4. Destiny’s Strategy
Frequent direction change as a response to uncertainty
Stay ahead of the commoditization curve
Innovate to maintain profit margins
Accumulate knowledge, tools for creating customized solutions
Focus on financial services

5. How Does the Pattern Approach Serve Destiny’s Strategy?
Produce consistent, reliable organizational responses
Customized but consistently high quality
Problem solving information in relationships between patterns
Top down and bottom up combined
Agility in operational responses

6. Waterfall vs Organic Methods
SDLC comes from manufacturing tradition
High cost of redesigning physical products
Importance of getting it right the first time
Knowledge processes, if done in small pieces, can be changed at small cost

7. Destiny Web Solutions? Russell Holt looking for work as of 9/03
site down as of 11/04