A Working Day as a Software Developer and CTO at Logistikbude
The alarm goes off. The eyes open loooooooong. Take a shower, get dressed and have breakfast. What's still missing? Tea or coffee! Fan noise. Start the computers — the day can begin. Now, emails are checked first in Outlook, and development environments and communication channels such as Teams are opened.
Right at the start, we check whether system errors or discrepancies have occurred in the software overnight. Has a customer received any critical error messages?
Should this ever be the case, these problems will be solved immediately.
In our dual role as software developer and CTO, we place particular importance on agile working methods. In a daily standup, the founding team briefly aligns on which topics are pending today in the various core areas.
Which tasks have priority today?
If it's a Monday or Friday, the standard meetings "Planning" or "Strategy" are also added.
After all the meetings are done, we wind down the day with a second hot drink, a small tradition among us developers. Now it's social time to talk about the weekend or to think about what we could do at the next team event. "Maybe laser tag?"
We then review the current development tasks.
Have new issues (= developer tasks) been added? Have existing issues changed? Where can we support each other?
... development time...
We always cook during the lunch break (if it's a work-from-home day). We can't yet say for sure whether this is typical for developers or CTOs, but so far this has proven to be the rule.
After the lunch break, we turn to customer requests. In concrete terms, this means we learn about customer requirements through direct contact with customers or through sales. Here we balance what the customer wants against what the customer needs. We then decide whether it fits into our product. Once we've set up this plan, we can translate it into work assignments to estimate the effort and time.
... development time...
Once regular meetings, discrepancies, customer requests and the like have been dealt with, it's time for us and our computer to "call it a day." Recharge the batteries and round off the working day either working from home or briefly in the office with colleagues.
