---
url: 'https://dri.es/my-week-in-review-week-1'
title: 'My week in review: week #1'
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2011-03-19T16:20:25-04:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
type: blog
tags:
  - Acquia
published: true
id: 2251
---

# 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).

<table>
  <tr>
  <th>Activity</th>
  <th>Organization</th>
  <th>Hours</th>
  <th>Comments</th>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Business development</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>Meetings with (potential) Acquia partners</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>E-mail</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>4</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Human resources</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>1.5</td>
  <td>Career guiding, interviewing potential hires</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Management meetings</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>5</td>
  <td>Strategic planning/brainstorming/review meetings with sales, marketing, engineering, etc</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Product / engineering management</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>4.5</td>
  <td>Roadmap planning for Drupal Gardens, Acquia Cloud, Acquia Network and Drupal Commons</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Research</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Sales meetings</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>Meetings with (potential) Acquia customers</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Transportation</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>6.5</td>
  <td>Driving to work and driving to meetings</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Investor relations</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>0.5</td>
  <td>Communicating with investors</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Writing code</td>
  <td>Acquia</td>
  <td>0</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Attending conferences</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>6</td>
  <td>Gave one keynote at Harvard Club and one presentation at the IBM Innovation Center for IEEE/ACM</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Blogging</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>Processed my DrupalCon pictures and wrote 3 short blog posts</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Drupal 8 initiatives</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>3.5</td>
  <td>Talked to potential initiative owners and read up on proposals</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Drupal Association</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>4</td>
  <td>Drupal Association board meeting, phone calls with other Board Members, and working with Executive Director in preparation of the board meeting</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>E-mail</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>7.5</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Preparing presentation slides</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>3</td>
  <td>Gave 2 presentations that required preparation</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Radio interview</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>Interview with Federal News Radio to talk about Drupal in government</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Reviewing Drupal core patches</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>0.5</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Transportation</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>1.5</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Writing code</td>
  <td>Drupal</td>
  <td>0</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>E-mail</td>
  <td>Mollom</td>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Management meetings</td>
  <td>Mollom</td>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>Weekly planning/review meeting</td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Product / engineering management</td>
  <td>Mollom</td>
  <td>6</td>
  <td>Reviewed the results of the last engineering sprint, and coordinated the next engineering sprint</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Writing code</td>
  <td>Mollom</td>
  <td>0</td>
  <td>
 </td>
</tr>
</table>

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.
