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👋 Hey, Tarek!

Welcome to Transport Canada’s Rail Safety team. We're glad you're are joining us!

I've We’ve put together this onboarding plan to help you get up to speed in your new role as a summer student on the Rail Occurrence Follow-up (ROF) team. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions 🙂

- Will, Dave and Maggie

Info

Quick links

🧭 Guiding thoughts

  • Take time to learn. Don't get sucked into the minutia of decision-making or project involvement too early - there will be plenty of time for that latergain familiarity with the working environment, and get to know the team. In your first 30 60 days, try to focus on getting comfortable with the ROF environment, and learning how things work.Invest in relationships. By day 60, you'll be in execution mode. In . You will start to get to know your team members and feel comfortable asking questions.

  • Continue to learn scrum processes, and gain comfortability completing tasks. After your first two months, spend as much time as you can getting to know people and forming relationshipsyou'll start to become more comfortable with scrum processes, as well as working through tasks and completing them. Of course, you will continue to get to know your teammates.

  • Don't be afraid to ask. No one expects you to know how things at work right away. Take advantage of that and ask the team for help when you need it.

🤝 Meet your team

Environment set-up

Who

What they can help with

Jugraj Rahal

  • Environment set-up

  • Coding or technical questions

  • Technical documentation location and creation

Ashiq Alibhai

  • Coding or technical questions

  • Technical documentation location and creation

    • Will Rivers

    Payroll and benefits

    • Job description and expectations

    • Payroll and Human Resources

    • Vacation and sick time-off requests

    Maggie Schifferer

    • What should I do next?

    • Who should I reach out to if I need help?

    • Questions about agile and scrum

    • QA testing questions

    • Any questions at all!

    Jugraj Rahal

    • ROF environment set-up

    • ROF coding or technical questions

    • Technical documentation location and creation

    Ashiq Alibhai

    • ROF environment set-up

    • ROF coding or technical questions

    • Technical documentation location and creation

    🌱 Your first week

    Monday

    Tuesday

    Wednesday

    Thursday

    Friday

    •  Pick up equipment from TC
    and get it set up
    •  Join daily scrum at 9:30am
    , and get to know the team (smile)
    •  Join daily scrum at 9:30am
    •  Join daily scrum at 9:30am
    •  Join daily scrum at 9:30am
     Click around and get familiar
    •  ROF demo, overview, and question / answer with Maggie
    •  Meeting with Maggie to go over team daily and sprint activities
    •  Meeting with Will to go over Team Charter and expectations for summer students
     Set-up ROF working environment when you have MSDN license:
    •  Set up equipment
    •  Meet with RSIG and ROF team
    •  Continue to set up GC key, VPN and MSDN license (as needed)
    •  Continue to set up GC key, VPN and MSDN license (as needed)
    •  Continue to set up GC key, VPN and MSDN license (as needed)
    •  When equipment is set up, click around and gain familiarity with MS Teams and Outlook
    •  
    Read ROF overview:
    • Continue to set up GC key, VPN and MSDN license (as needed)
    •  Continue to set-up ROF working environment (as needed)
    •  Continue to set-up ROF working environment (as needed)
    •  Continue to set-up ROF working environment (as needed)
    •  Meet with Will
    •  Meet with Jugraj to discuss environment set-up
    •  Meet with Maggie (check-in / how’s it going)
    •  Take a look at video / reading list (as time permits)
    •  Meet with Maggie for ROF demo
    •  Check to see if you have received an email from Shared Services to set up GC Key and VPN.
    •  Take a look at video / reading list (as time permits)

    •  Take a look at video / reading list (as time permits)
    •  Check to see if you have received an email from Lan Lin that includes a link to
     Read introductory article about Blazor:
    • your MSDN license.
    •  Take a look at video / reading list (as time permits)

    •  Take a look at video / reading list (as time permits)

    💻 ROF working environment set-up

    Step 1: What is needed before you can begin set-up

    1. GC Key:

      1. GC key initiation will be started by the team that sets up your equipment

      2. You will receive an email from Shared Services with instructions to set up your GC key

    2. VPN:

      1. VPN will be set up at the same time as your GC key. Instructions (if required) should be included in your GC key email

    3. MSDN License:

      1. Dave has initiated a request for your MSDN license

      2. You will receive an email from Lan Lin with your license

    Step 2: What is needed before you can begin set-up

    1. Follow steps in the guide: How to set up ROF working environment

    2. Reach out to Jugraj or Maggie if you have any questions or need help (smile)

    (lightbulb) Video / Reading List

    📄  Helpful resources

    🗣️  Important MS Teams Channels

    • FullTeam_RSIG_10: General team channel RSIG and ROF teams

    • ROFS Team Chat: Internal ROF team primarily used for testing discussions

    • TEAM ROF: ROF general team chat

    👥  Team Charter

    View file
    nameRDIMS-#19096524-v1-TC_TEAM_CHARTER_-_RAIL_SAFETY_TEAM.PPT

    Powerpoint
    nameRDIMS-#19096524-v1-TC_TEAM_CHARTER_-_RAIL_SAFETY_TEAM.PPT
    spaceRAIL

    🌟 Summer term 2023 milestones

    Outcome

    Steps

    Gain understanding of agile development principles

    •  Read resources on agile development
    •  Participate in and support agile development
    •  Be prepared to describe Describe two examples of agile development implemented by the team during the summer months

    Gain understanding of scrum ceremonies

    •  Read resources on scrum
    •  Learn about and participate in the four scrum ceremonies
      •  Sprint Planning
      •  Sprint Refinement
      •  Sprint Review
      •  Sprint Retrospective

    Ability to write a manual test case

    •  Learn about writing test cases
    •  Write test cases

    Ability to write a unit test

    •  Learn about writing test cases
    •  Write unit tests

    Ability to write an automated test

    •  Learn about automated testing
    •  Learn about Playwright
    •  Write automated tests

    💖 Helpful resources

  • Slack channels

  • Internal glossary

    • Asking for help