Team Member: Tarek

 Hey, Tarek!

 

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

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

 

 

 



 Guiding thoughts

  • Take time to gain familiarity with the working environment, and get to know the team. In your first 60 days, try to focus on getting comfortable with the ROF environment, and learning how things work. 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, you'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 work right away. Take advantage of that and ask the team for help when you need it.

 

 Meet your team

Who

What they can help with

Who

What they can help with

Will Rivers

  • 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

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Pick up equipment from TC
Join daily scrum at 9:30am
Join daily scrum at 9:30am
Join daily scrum at 9:30am
Join daily scrum at 9:30am
Set up equipment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 Summer term 2023 milestones

Outcome

Steps

Outcome

Steps

Gain understanding of agile development principles

Gain understanding of scrum ceremonies

Ability to write a manual test case

Ability to write a unit test

Ability to write an automated test