Met up with Steve and Dustin over the morning meeting. I was prepping things for a big data migration between servers. Dustin was working on his settings page. We went over some options and goals for his current project and worked together for a bit. Later on in the meeting, Steve was asking a report about labels and what is going on there. I made a call to Calvin and got a small update. We decided to meet around 1 pm to chat and talk about progress.

After that, Steve and I got on a phone call and talked about where we are going and some internal direction for how we want to deal with developers, budgets, and developer rates. We are seeing that some of the high-end developers are doing the external jobs for a much higher rate than we can offer internally. That is awesome if they get the work. Not so good for us, because our projects get lowered on the priority scale. By us paying them monies that they haven't even earned yet, we may be hurting ourselves. Imagine if you had monies coming in and adding up for work to be done, but you knew that it was less per hour. It then becomes a pain in order to get back to that because you know that the net value of that money is less than what you could earn somewhere else. It almost becomes a thorn in your side vs a positive pick-me-up. Anyways, we had a good conversation and tried to come up with some plans.

We have two bigger, higher-end developers, that we may need to pay their normal commercial rate and stop sending them residual monies. Kinda refactor things and help them fly at there normal commercial rate. That may help get our project back to the top of the priority pile. Interesting concept.