My week in review: week #1
Every week, people ask me what exactly I do and how I balance my time. As such, I've decided to keep track of my work related activities and to record the time that I spent on them. The next four weeks, I'll try to post a weekly summary of my work week (e.g. Monday - Friday).
Activity | Organization | Hours | Comments | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Business development | Acquia | 2 | Meetings with (potential) Acquia partners | |
Acquia | 4 | |||
Human resources | Acquia | 1.5 | Career guiding, interviewing potential hires | |
Management meetings | Acquia | 5 | Strategic planning/brainstorming/review meetings with sales, marketing, engineering, etc | |
Product / engineering management | Acquia | 4.5 | Roadmap planning for Drupal Gardens, Acquia Cloud, Acquia Network and Drupal Commons | |
Research | Acquia | 2 | ||
Sales meetings | Acquia | 2 | Meetings with (potential) Acquia customers | |
Transportation | Acquia | 6.5 | Driving to work and driving to meetings | |
Investor relations | Acquia | 0.5 | Communicating with investors | |
Writing code | Acquia | 0 | ||
Attending conferences | Drupal | 6 | Gave one keynote at Harvard Club and one presentation at the IBM Innovation Center for IEEE/ACM | |
Blogging | Drupal | 2 | Processed my DrupalCon pictures and wrote 3 short blog posts | |
Drupal 8 initiatives | Drupal | 3.5 | Talked to potential initiative owners and read up on proposals | |
Drupal Association | Drupal | 4 | Drupal Association board meeting, phone calls with other Board Members, and working with Executive Director in preparation of the board meeting | |
Drupal | 7.5 | |||
Preparing presentation slides | Drupal | 3 | Gave 2 presentations that required preparation | |
Radio interview | Drupal | 1 | Interview with Federal News Radio to talk about Drupal in government | |
Reviewing Drupal core patches | Drupal | 0.5 | ||
Transportation | Drupal | 1.5 | ||
Writing code | Drupal | 0 | ||
Mollom | 1 | |||
Management meetings | Mollom | 1 | Weekly planning/review meeting | |
Product / engineering management | Mollom | 6 | Reviewed the results of the last engineering sprint, and coordinated the next engineering sprint | |
Writing code | Mollom | 0 |
This week may have been slightly more busy than normal. Also, most weeks I spent more time reviewing Drupal patches — this week most of that time went into starting up the Drupal 8 initiatives and catching up with things after DrupalCon. Other than that, this was a pretty common week.
— Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert is an Open Source advocate and technology executive. More than 10,000 people are subscribed to his blog. Sign up to have new posts emailed to you or subscribe using RSS. Write to Dries Buytaert at dries@buytaert.net.