>> Your process for staff development is not good.

So, you understand the process of staff development enough to understand this? Which IMM were you again?

I apologize for sounding crass, but it annoys me to no end when people have a certain level of expertise in field A, and then just assume that this knowledge naturally applies to B,C,D,....

I could be completely wrong in any of my own assumptions, but I would guess that making this CF thing like more like a "professional project" for the folks who work on it would probably sink it quicker than any thing else.