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Created By: Shannon Scoffield
Created Date/Time: 8/31/2016 2:53 pm
 
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Template/Type: Daily Ideas
Title/Caption: Daily Ideas
Start Date: 7/20/2015
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Notes:
-At some point, we will need to make an internal ticket or invoice that will be tied to elements of time. Very similar to internal repair tickets or invoices for stock/units. Basically a way to take internal inventory items and/or labor services and apply them to elements of time. This will be part of the event tracking and job costing model. We will also need these pieces to show up on the elements of time to show the costing and mini P&L (profit & loss) per project, job, event, or whatever the element of time is called. We’ll use the stock/units as model or how to do it.

-All of the guys need to start wearing multiple hats and doing other pieces of the project.
-The less they depend on me the better. Help them learn to fish for themselves!
-As we keep going… it is interesting how we keep coming back to phases and smaller pieces. The big grand design still exists but is too big to roll out at once. We keep going back to bite size pieces and doing things in phases and smaller steps. At least that is doable.
-One of the hardest things about bidding a job is fixed dollar values and fixed dates. Our project manager was teaching me that we need to teach our clients how to treat us by teaching them our system and process vs. fixed dollars and dates. Very interesting and it makes sense.

The best model that I used with a developer today – talking about transitioning over to the Shop – was a core and then stacking on new products and features model. Here are a couple of drawings that we used: (See photo gallery for sketches)
- Start with a core piece
- Bolt on a new piece, This could be a new product or service
- Grow as needed
- Keep the core and then expand from there

Here is how a developer drew the Shop model. It has a light umbrella that keeps it together. It has different services that fit under that umbrella. The base, for our shop is custom code and developers.
- Base: developers & custom code work
- Shop umbrella: other services such as sales, consulting, customer service, project management, setup, training, hosting, design, etc.