Steve and I were the only ones on the morning meeting today. We had some great talks about staffing and delegating. We talked about getting different people to help us in different ways. As part of our discussion, we drew some pictures and talked about getting some virtual pumps to start working and cycling through projects and tasks. As we talked, we decided that we may need a few different pumps (small teams doing certain tasks) in different spots.

We talked about Russell and how he is going to be running a small team over the summer months. That is really exciting. We are also very excited that he will actively run it, he is good at saying no or not right now, and he sets limits. We are expecting some good things coming down the pipeline due to the fact that he will be actively running and managing those pieces. The whole plan there is some maintenance and revamping some of the highest used pieces inside of adilas.

There were other topics and discussions about setting bounds, saying when (stop), different roles of builders, creatives, and checkers. We also talked about smaller tasks such as logos, watermarks, images, black box custom code, labels, etc. Some of those pieces are really small or simple. We really need to get some of those tasks handed off to others. Another huge one is emails... we get so many emails, you virtually can burry yourself in no time flat.

Keep redesigning based on pain.

We also talked about branch management stuff (git and bit bucket - code repository), being our own style, and letting the guys and gals help us decide who will carry what part of the load. Good chat. I felt better after talking and getting some things off my chest.