We're thrilled to have you join us on this journey! 🎆🎉🙌
Our vision is to build and maintain a best-in-class Content Management System that meets the needs of editors, application development teams, and consuming applications in order to empower our users to help Veterans.
The onboarding materials below are organized by 1) chronological time to complete (day one, week one, week two, month one); and main category (why, how, who, what). There's a lot to digest but don't worry, your delivery manager will guide you, you'll have an onboarding buddy to provide support, and we'll also introduce you to your workstream's lead to help with specific things related to your discipline (UX, DevOps, Drupal Engineering, etc). In addition, you'll have the support of the entire team, who have all gone through this process before and are eager to answer any questions that arise. Come back to this ticket any time to refresh your knowledge on a specific topic covered below.
Have fun and we look forward to getting to know you! 😊
Projected start date: 9/13/21
Onboarding buddy (short check-in meetings the first week):
[x] Let's start introducing you to the team and key stakeholders. If you're on a meeting where you don't know someone, feel free to kickstart an introduction. Everyone in the ecosystem is friendly and interested in connecting.
Week two
The goal for this week is to get you set up with the tools you need to be successful. We will pair you up with a buddy on the project that is in your same discipline to help inform which ones are relevant and which aren't. The most important thing is to get set up is SOCKS as it will give you access to our systems so try to prioritize that.
When?
[x] Check your calendar for invitations to team ceremonies.
[x] Discuss Drupal CMS account administration process with instructional designer, delivery manager or product manager
[x] Get access to training, staging, and prod environments with instructional designer
[x] Discuss broken links process with instructional designer
[x] Discuss Jira reporting with instructional designer
[x] Discuss Knowledge Base with instructional designer
[x] The following trainings and additional videos can be found on the Knowledge Base on the Drupal CMS prod and lesser environments that require VA network or SOCKS proxy access. They can be watched without VA network or SOCKS access at the links below.
Welcome to the VFS-CMS Team! 👋
We're thrilled to have you join us on this journey! 🎆🎉🙌
Our vision is to build and maintain a best-in-class Content Management System that meets the needs of editors, application development teams, and consuming applications in order to empower our users to help Veterans.
The onboarding materials below are organized by 1) chronological time to complete (day one, week one, week two, month one); and main category (why, how, who, what). There's a lot to digest but don't worry, your delivery manager will guide you, you'll have an onboarding buddy to provide support, and we'll also introduce you to your workstream's lead to help with specific things related to your discipline (UX, DevOps, Drupal Engineering, etc). In addition, you'll have the support of the entire team, who have all gone through this process before and are eager to answer any questions that arise. Come back to this ticket any time to refresh your knowledge on a specific topic covered below.
Have fun and we look forward to getting to know you! 😊
Projected start date: 9/13/21
Onboarding buddy (short check-in meetings the first week):
Day one
How?
Who?
What?
Week one
The goals of this week are: 1) get background paperwork completed as quickly as possible and 2) start gaining context for what we're doing and why
Why?
How?
Who?
Week two
The goal for this week is to get you set up with the tools you need to be successful. We will pair you up with a buddy on the project that is in your same discipline to help inform which ones are relevant and which aren't. The most important thing is to get set up is SOCKS as it will give you access to our systems so try to prioritize that.
When?
What products do we support?
[x] Read the product sheets.
All team members need to review the following:
[ ] SOCKS proxy request to access VA network tools until you get a PIV card. This is the first priority for week two.
[ ] Optional Core Tunnel set up for SOCKS proxy on all browsers on Mac
[x] VA.gov tools overview
[x] Slack for instant messaging
[x] Review Slack etiquette.
[x] DM to add to appropriate Slack alias groups
[x] Github for issue tracking and document sharing
[x] VA.gov request instructions
[x] CMS team list - get added
[x] Zenhub extension instructions
[x] Citrix Access Gateway instructions for after you get your PIV card
[x] Confluence for team resources and calendar
[x] Google Drive for team documents. Generally, VA doesn't use Google products. Use Github or downloadable files when sharing with VA.
[x] Trello
[x] Tugboat demo environments
[x] Tugboat for non-engineers SOCKS required
[x] What do I need to know about my discipline on this team (DevOps, Engineering, Helpdesk, ID, UX)? Discuss with your discipline lead.
[x] What applications or discipline-specific tools are needed? Discuss with your discipline lead.
Onboarding for Helpdesk members
Month one
By this point you should have enough context and access to be able to start contributing. Work with your team to identify specific issues to focus on.
Who?
What?
Month two
What additional tools do you need access to?