Dries Buytaert

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
E-mail	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
E-mail	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
E-mail	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.