The challenge: Manage development of a website on a short timeline. Website must be 99.999% available, scalable and provide secure storage of potentially irreplaceable music files.

The solution:

• Use scrum development processes to deliver cutting edge design and software on a challenging timeline with hard launch date.
• Use a proprietary, distributed, hash-based, object-oriented database to enable highly scalable storage.
• Work closely with product management to refine most important requirements

The challenge: Create a promotional website that uses social network to promote the Dickies work clothing brand.

The solution:

• Encourage user involvement through nominating and voting for Dickies Worker fo the Year.
• Manage development of viral email with link to personalized video.
• Manage offsite development of Flash application that allows users to nominate their "worker of the year".
• Enable voting interface on website.

The challenge: Nuance, makers of speech recognition software, wants a Christmas campaign that is humorous and viral in a six week period.

The solution:

• Identify existing music and sound effects.
• Direct designer and animator in production of Flash video.
• Manage creation of viral email promoting personalized video.

The challenge: Develop software for new hardware that requires never-before-seen UI, new OS. Due to ambiguity, creation of requirements is lagging, project scope is increasing with executive attention, and the project has a hard, aggressive launch date

The solution:

• Put Agile processes into place, creating tight teams seated together of creative, development, QA. to try out UI variations, implement titles.
• Continuously refine scope to meet deadline.
• Meet regularly with executive team to choose most important requirements.

The challenge: Develop software on new hardware (the pencil) using a new language (the State Table Model), and develop four software titles in six months.

The solution:

• Learn the language. Create initial language documentation and presented training program to internal and external teams.
• Recruit key internal and external developers to work closely with hardware engineering team.
• Meet often with designers, producers and executive sponsor to keep project scope within schedule constraints.