Wow, power packed meeting and tensions were running high this morning. It started out and Steve and Danny were talking sales, models, and different teams and such. No big deal. We then got off into some custom work that one of the developers was doing and it got a little bit wild. We are really striving to bring all of the custom projects under the main adilas roof or umbrella. That is fine and well, but there are still a few older projects out that that are 100% custom and have been run by some of our independent developers. These projects don't seem to be problem, until, the crap hits the fan. Then it's a big deal.

Anyways, one of the custom projects is starting to go over budget and getting some scope creep (wanting new features that weren't originally planned or designed into the project). That makes all of us, on the meeting have to take time and see what we can do to fix things. It also comes down to who is going to fix what and how do we bill for that. We are really trying to cover costs for what we have to do. It was originally all with one developer and now it is spreading (getting other designers and developers involved). We have dealt with this tons over the years. All of our developers are independent. It has only been recently that we've tried to bring things more under the main adilas umbrella or virtual roof. This includes a project manager, quotes, estimates, project id's, proper billing, code sign-off, deployment, etc. Anyways, due to some emails going around, this project kind of blew up and some bottled up emotions and opinions (from multiple sides) kind of hit the virtual fan and created a fairly hot discussion.

We weren't able to come to a specific agreement before some of the different parties had to bail out for other meetings. Reporting on things later on (a couple days after - when I was recording these notes), it got better, but it was a little bit hot and heavy for a while, if you know what I mean.