New Team VSP Orientation

[shiragoodman]

User Story

As a new VA.gov team member, I need to complete onboarding activities so I can successfully work on my project.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Each team member has completed each item in the orientation checklist below.

Onboarding Checklist

• [x] PM: Attend intro meeting with product support PM
• [x] Attend general orientation meeting
• [x] Request Access to Tools
• [x] Review the Guidelines for Working Safely in an Open Source Repo
• [x] Review the Norms for Using Tools
• [x] Review the Code of Conduct
• [x] Review the Platform Principles
• [x] Review the Norms for Communication
• [x] Review the GitHub Markdown Cheatsheet to learn the syntax for formatting documents in GitHub
• [x] Review the Digital Modernization Strategy
• [x] Review the Web Brand Consolidation documentation
• [x] Review the Collaboration Cycle documentation
• [x] Review the Collaboration Point Tracker
• [x] Sign up for the Platform Newsletter
  • [x] Process for when a teammate leaves
• [ ] PM, Designers and Content Writer(s): Request content and IA intro with @ Liani Lye in slack
• [x] PM and Front-End Engineers: Request analytics intro with @ Joanne Esteban in slack
• [ ] PM, Designers, FE devs: Request 508 intro with @ Trevor Pierce in slack
• [ ] PM and Engineers: Request QA intro with @ Peter Hill in slack
• [ ] PM and Engineering Lead: Request ATO intro with @ Faith Owusu-Sekyere in slack

Notes:

To track the work needed to complete the items in this checklist, you may want to create GitHub issues.

• [ ] Assign the issues to individual(s) to complete
• [ ] Label the issues appropriately ( orientation, [your-team-name])
• [ ] Attach the issues to this Epic

[shiragoodman]

hey @vhenry07 - the first item on this checklist is supposed to be an intro to the Collab Cycle - if you'd like to meet 1:1, I can explain in more depth. Let me know.

[vhenry07]

This would definitely be helpful. Will set up a call for next week.