Sorry if you are expecting the 'solution' to be given in this post, but this is basically a brain-dump of where I'm at with this problem, and my thoughts on how I might go about solving it.
Background
First up, a little background on Computerminds and the sort of development we do. We tend to take on a mixture of projects, we have projects where we'll be completely responsible for the entire technology stack, and others where we need to bootstrap a team of developers internal to the client and set them up with a stack capable of running Drupal....
