New VFS Team Member Template Kevin Cleveland

kevincleveland-va commented 5 months ago

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veteran Facing Services (VFS) team!

As a new VFS team member, you will be working in the web ecosystem we call the VA.gov Platform (or "The Platform," for short). The tasks on this list are designed to get you up to speed on the role of Platform, making it easier for you to do your job.

Because the VA is a huge organization that serves millions, the Platform it runs on is equally big, complex, and multilayered. Most people find that even learning the basics for their own practice area entails a significant learning curve. The tasks on this checklist will help you acquire those basics as quickly and efficiently as possible.

User Story

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

How to fill out this ticket

[x] Add your name to the ticket title
[x] Complete the Onboarding Checklist below
[x] Under Get set up for your practice area, you only need to complete the items for your role
[x] You can close this ticket when all items are completed in the Onboarding Checklist and the Platform Checklist

Onboarding Checklist

Share your info with Platform

[x] Complete the fields below:
- Name: Kevin Cleveland
- Pronouns (e.g. she/her): He/Him
- Role: Technical Lead
- Email: kevin.cleveland@va.gov
- GitHub handle*: kevincleveland-va
- Start date: 05/01/2024
- VFS Team: Digital GI Bill Project (Same team as Bradley Bergeron and Sebastian Caso)

*Providing your GitHub handle will allow Platform to provide you access to the necessary GitHub repos.

General

[x] Watch the General orientation recording
[x] Update your Slack profile
[x] Watch VA.gov overview video for an overview of VA.gov
[x] Watch VFS Orientation for Platform Website video
[x] Watch the Platform Support overview video
[x] Review the Getting help from the Platform in Slack guidance
[x] Review Welcome documentation
[x] Review Support Overview documentation
[x] Review the guidance on Submitting a feature request
[x] Request Access to Tools
[x] Confirm that you have access to the VA GitHub Organization
- Note: Membership in the VA Github Organization is a prerequisite for getting access to vets.gov-write and access to many commonly-used repositories. Platform will not be able to complete this task if you are not a member of the VA GitHub Organization.
[x] Opt out of Google Analytics on all of your browsers on your work machines, personal machines (if you are not a Veteran yourself using the site for your own applications), and mobile devices
Norms and standards
[x] Review guidance on the Platform Satisfaction Survey
Working on the platform
[x] Review the Platform Principles
[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 on Platform Website
[x] Are you a Veteran? Consider adding your name to the Veterans willing to help VA teams with product testing document

Get set up for your practice area

Product Managers & Delivery Managers

[ ] Schedule a PM intro via Calendly with Shira Goodman (Platform Governance Team PM).
[ ] If your team is new, please complete the New VFS Team ticket. If you're joining an existing team, you can skip this step.
[ ] Watch the Analytics orientation recording
[ ] Watch the Accessibiliy orientation recording
[ ] Watch the QA orientation recording

Off-boarding of teammates

[x] Review process for when a teammate leaves

Platform Checklist

The items in this checklist are for Platform to complete. If you are ready to close the ticket and the Platform Checklist section has not been completed, please reach out to Platform via the guidance provided in Getting help from Platform in Slack.

[x] New VFS team member has been added to the VFS Team Roster located in Atlas
[x] New VFS team member has been added to the vets.gov-write GitHub team

kevincleveland-va commented 5 months ago

@davidpetras I opened a new ticket, can you help me out with this one? I'll make sure I watch this ticket closely.

AnthonyWFlowers commented 5 months ago

Greetings @kevincleveland-va It does not appear that your team DGIB is in Atlas, in order to assign the correct team would it be possible to get a bit more information regarding which team you are on? In Atlas Bradley Bergeron and Sebastian Caso do not have a team designation, so we may need to have you create a New VFS Team ticket here before we can add you to Atlas. Thank you.

kevincleveland-va commented 5 months ago

I will get with Bradley and Sebastian to ask how they would like to proceed. I will post here when I hear back from them. I'm guessing they will want to create a team for us and I'll create the ticket for that. Some information I can provide that may be useful is that we are are part of Accenture Federal Services and we work on various VA Education Benefit applications.

kevincleveland-va commented 5 months ago

@AnthonyWFlowers They said that the team should already exist and should be 'my-education-benefits'

bdech commented 5 months ago

Platform Checklist complete

kevincleveland-va commented 5 months ago

Checklist Completed.

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