Steve and I got on a GoToMeeting session to talk about options. We spent some time going over ideas and drawings for the adilas trust and how we could set that up. I have another Word document with a bunch of notes. Steve and I met for a good hour, talking and going over ideas and options.

Calvin called and we chatted for a bit. Calvin was pitching a proposal to work on the adilas label builder and getting that whole product web ready and transferred over to adilas vs being custom Windows based software that he developed. We talked about budgets, timelines, expectations, and other options. One of the things that Calvin was pitching was outsourcing a JavaScript grid layout engine. If we got that built, we could use that same layout engine to configure custom labels, custom invoices, customer receipts, check printing, PDF forms, and other layout type projects. Good stuff.

Here are a couple of other quick side notes from the conversation with Calvin. We talked about doing focused sprints vs big long drawn out projects. One, the developer's lose momentum and two, sometimes funding runs out. Time and resources, those are major pieces to the puzzle. Plus, this is the major killer, transitions... you lose so much in the start/stop, start/stop process. We gain some advantages as we do small pushes to minimize the length of the project and the number of transitions that will happen. We already knew this, but sometimes it is a good reminder on efficiencies and flow.

After the other meeting and phone calls, I merged in some code for Steve on branch that he was working on.