7.20 AM
When my fifth alarm goes off in the morning I'm usually ready to get out of bed. Once I'm awake, I'll quickly get dressed and head off to the train station to get to work.
8.15 AM
Once I get off the train in the city, I quickly get a takeaway breakfast. Luckily the office is directly next to the train station so I don't have much of a walk.
8.30 AM
Once I'm set up, I'll check my emails and taskboards for any updates/new requirements for the project I'm working on (as the other developers and BA for this project work during UK hours). One of the BAs has a question regarding platform integrations, so I create and fire off a few example requests to answer their question.
9.00 AM
Afterward, I'll continue working on the project in Boomi, making sure my solution is outputting all of the correct data as per the documented requirements.
12.00 PM
I have a meeting scheduled with Digital Services and the Legal Analysts to determine the feasibility of automating a couple of the repeatable tasks that the analysts have to do regularly, which may form the basis of a Business Case. In this case, they're looking to automate data extraction from a large number of unstructured documents (OCR task).
1.00 PM
After the meeting, I'll go to get lunch nearby with the other IT graduates and see what everyone else has been up to.
2.00 PM
After lunch, one of our BAs and I look into the OCR capabilities of our existing system as this is not a feature we have yet used. The document processing capabilities look to be appropriate for the task at hand and I complete training on it.
4.00 PM
Every day at 4 PM, I have my team's Daily stand-up. We use an Agile workflow and in these meetings, everyone goes through their progress for the day, on their tasks for the sprint, and we work through any blockers.
4.30 PM
After updating my tickets and looking at what I'll need to work on tomorrow, I head home early as I have a late meeting tonight.
6.30 PM
I set up my laptop at home and am back online for a meeting with our vendor. After the meeting, I log off for the day.
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