Touching base with Alan, Steve, and Dustin. After a little bit, Steve, Alan, and I were talking about where we can go and what would those positions look like.

- Alan was talking about helping to break up some of the bigger projects into smaller and smaller pieces. And how he could and would like to help with some of the project management. Almost having individuals being small scale specialist in certain areas. Lots of small victories.

- Steve had a question, what about all of the small little things that keep popping up? Bugs, fixes, updates, and small maintenance issues. Some of those little things are really tough to manage (shear volume and switching gears every second).

- Sometimes we lose a lot of ground if we have to switch back and forth between too many projects.

- Currently we are all spread so thin... we can't get anything done quickly. Small talks about small teams and small sprints.

- Setting up expectations, meeting times, etc. Then following through on those pieces.

- We can really get some great on the job training going on. This will really help all of the pieces as we go forward.

- Steve was saying... maybe we have Cory be the door (gateway), she then communicates with Brandon and Steve and Alan. These three work together and talk with Wayne (server stuff) and then help and deal with the rest of the developer pool (all of the other guys and how deep the water is).

- Putting in shields, bouncers, and processes to help us say no, not yet, yes, or maybe. Some of those answers are tough, but it you have a shield, it becomes easier. You can virtually hide behind the process in a way. Drawing lines and setting up expectations. Healthy boundaries.

- Gaining victories by having our guys get their own victories (helping others and helping them get their projects done). Basically, a management structure in some ways.

- Data assembly line - set the expectations, really spend the time to check things out and do good progress reports and sign-offs, and then move forward as possible.

- Helping to remove obstacles from each others path and shielding each other.

Towards the end of the meeting, we had Alex and Cory join us. Each of them reported in and we fixed a small bug for Cory and pushed up the file.