Shari O. and I talking about a bunch of different options. She was saying that she likes to give out virtual "hall passes" to our clients and our developers. They can kinda do whatever they want. However, if there becomes a problem, she can take it back and/or revote the virtual hall pass. I thought that it was kinda funny.

John jumped in and we talked about business and general DevOps (mix between software development and IT backend server stuff). We have a good team but it is a little wild and footloose. John would like to see more structure, responsibility, and defined roles. It can be very frustrating at times. I've seen this as well. Sometimes, I just don't know how to fix it or (the real question is) is that the biggest problem (getting pulled on to other fires)? We talked about competitive wages, challenges of multi-tasking, transitions between projects, wearing tons of different hats (roles), and other remote team issues.

We spent time talking about servers, challenges, and struggles of managing a remote team with a number of different skill levels. Switching to code, we were talking about the differences between building new vs converting the older into the new. We talked about scalability, clustering, and normalizing systems across teams, servers, and management styles. The conversation got into talking about knowledge and scope. Who knows just a little bit, who knows a lot, and who see and deals with the whole picture. There is a huge difference. At some point, we'd love to get rid of some of the older dependencies that have been built in. Progression of things.

There is a huge need for documentation and helping the next guy down the road. Looking out for each other. We flipped over to budgets and salary discussions at the end of the session. We talked pros and cons of hourly vs salary-based pay or systems. Anyways, just going over some goals and what not.