Talking with Chuck about project management and best practices. We spent the first half an hour going over good, bad, and ugly project management practices. Things that we've seen, things that we are doing, and things that we would like to do. We took some notes and I ended up kicking out an email to a number of team members to get them thinking about certain things. One of my jobs is to help be the developer's advocate between the different developers, IT/server guys, project managers, and admin persons. A lot of our conversations were based around those pieces.

We talked about setting bounds, limits, expectations, and following procedures and protocols. We also talked about internal communication channels and external or client-side communication channels. Other topics were who is paying for what? Bypassing project managers, good products, good deliverables, and shielding each other from direct lines of fire (say from a client - they need to go though the correct contact vs skipping the project manager and going straight to the developer).

The last half of the meeting was spent prepping all of the files for the project we are calling the adilas docs. Basically, all kinds of internal documents and training for what our procedures are, how to get certain things done, who to contact, how things work, what to do to get paid, code syntax, code naming conventions, expectations, and more. Good stuff. It is close to being ready to launch (in the next couple of days). Exciting! Chuck has been working on this for a couple of months now.