Onboard Joe Cox to Toxic Exposure (VRO and EE)

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Onboarding Checklist

Welcome, we're excited to have you onboard. This document will streamline your onboarding process and reduce the startup time needed to ramp up.

Team Integration

Benefits Portfolio Onboarding (After you've received successful SAC adjudication, your Delivery Manager will help you gain access to these)

• Get added to the #benefits-onboarding Slack channel.
  • Complete onboarding procedures in the Slack Canvas.
  • Provide your role, email, and team for onboarding buddies.
• Go through Benefits Portfolio onboarding materials and buddy meetings.

Meetings and Communication

• Get added to recurring team meetings for EE and VRO
• Set up team 1:1s:
  • See the VRO team roster (Slack Canvas link)
  • See the EE team roster (Slack Canvas link)

Slack Channels (After you've received successful SAC adjudication, your Delivery Manager will help you gain access to these)

• Join relevant Slack channels:
  • Team Coordination:
    • #benefits-vro
    • #benefits-vro-engineering
    • #benefits-employee-exp
    • #benefits-employee-exp-design
  • Partner Team Channels:
    • #benefits-contention-classification
    • #benefits-employee-exp
  • On-Call Support Channels:
    • #benefits-vro-support
    • #team-abd-vro
    • #bep-integration-support2077: private channel, you’ll need to be added.
  • On-Call Alerts:
    • #benefits-vro-on-call
    • #benefits-vro-alerts
  • VRO Log Channels:
    • #benefits-vro-devops
    • #benefits-slack-alerts-cc
    • #benefits-slack-alerts-ee
    • #benefits-slack-alerts-platform
    • #benefits-vro-vagov-526s-to-mas

GitHub Access (After you've received successful SAC adjudication, your Delivery Manager will help you gain access to these)

• Get added to the VA GitHub organization.
  • Provide your GitHub username to your Delivery Manager or team lead.
• Get added to relevant GitHub teams:
  • OCTO-VRO GitHub team for repo access.

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Resources to Review

About VRO Team

Note: The VRO Wiki needs to be updated, and various items must be cleaned up. Please look at this GH issue and Slack Canvas for details (and don't hesitate to help clean-up as you onboard). The below docs are up-to-date and should suffice for onboarding:

• VRO Team Overview
• VRO-Priorities - the essential item here is the VRO Roadmap Mural.

About EE Team

• EE Project Index

Murals

• VA's Benefit Portfolio Organigram: Mural Link.
• VRO's Working Agreements: Mural Link.
• VRO's Dissolution: Mural Link

Videos

• Watch:
  • "The Way We Work" presentation.
• Optional:
  • LHDI Team Demo on SecRel pipeline and SD Elements. Note: this requires being added to the LHDI Slack instance. May be outdated.

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Additional Steps

VA Email and Tools (After you've received successful SAC adjudication, your Delivery Manager will help you gain access to these)

• When you receive your VA.gov email address:
  • Inform your Delivery Manager for SharePoint and Okta access.
  • Request Datadog access for VA.gov (instructions)
  • Request Datadog access LHDI (instructions).
    • Datadog Monitoring: Review DataDog Monitoring.
• Access VA's Citrix Access Gateway (CAG):
  • Request copy-and-paste permissions via this article.
• Get added to SDE for LHDI.

PTO Communication

• Understand PTO communication within the team:
  • Slack: Notify appropriate channels.
  • Google Shared Team Calendar: The Delivery Manager will add you to this calendar. Be sure to keep your PTO on here.

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Conclusion

As you go through the onboarding process, please don't hesitate to contact your team members for help. If any items are blocking you, please notify your Delivery Manager or mention it in the #benefits-vro Slack channel.

We're excited to have you on the team and look forward to collaborating with you!