Congratulations on becoming a part of our team!
Our whole group welcomes you to the Innovative Software and Data Analysis group at NCSA.
We are looking forward to creating great things with you.
Welcome aboard!
- Who to contact if you are sick, want to request vacation, etc
- Vacation: Talk to your team lead - will the time impact deliverables for the group?
- Vacation and Sick Time - email sd@lists.illinois.edu to let people know you will not be in the office
- Update your Outlook Calendar with Vacation/Days off - This way people who create meetings will be able to see if you are available
- See who is in the Office - update if you are going to be out please for the team - Calendar
- A list of all the pertinent list serve email addresses, etc.
- Make note of any weekly meetings to be attended
- We meet as a group on Monday's at 9:30 to do a Weekly Kickoff - what is the primary thing you are going to be working on for the week on your projects?
- We meet as a group on Friday's at 10:00 for a weekly round up of What Rocks (what went well this week) and What Sucked (what didn't go well this week) and "Lightning Talks" or presentation of cool stuff people are working on or learning about
- You will have weekly meetings for each group you are assigned to - work with Shannon Bradley to make sure you are added to team invites
- Weekly Reporting
- The ISDA team has a Confluence Page for Weekly Task Management - Please list what you are going to be working on each week and what you got done each week in the update page
- Quick Insurance Information - Quick Insurance Information
- Overview of ISDA as a Group and some of our Projects
Setting Up Your Computer
Make sure the following programs are loaded:
- Getting Started - Instructions for Installation of: GettingStartedGuide-computer_setup.pdf
- Microsoft Office – including Skype for Business
- Crash Plan - should be on your device when you receive it
- Google Docs - you can link your U of I account to Google Apps
- Box App - for secure document sharing
- LastPass - work with Shannon to submit a ticket to Security for access
- Internet and Network Access is configured based on your University ID
- Printer Setup
Login Accounts and what they work for:
ncsa vpn == ncsa password (kerberos/internal)
ncsanet == illinois password (is managed by illinois)
illinoisnet == illinois password
ISDA Tools
- Confluence - or appropriate wiki / documentation repository (could be GoogleDocs or Box for some teams)
- JIRA - or Trello, GihHub Issues, ZenHub etc.
- Opensource credential will provide access to JIRA
- Slack -
- Development IDE and tools: JetBrains Toolbox: https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/app/
- Bitbucket - GitHub, ZenHub, or appropriate repository
- Team Cloud access - Nebula, AWS, GCE, etc
Useful technical tutorials:
Important Websites
- Savannah - https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/
- Vacation and Sick Leave is under Employment/HR in Savannah
- Positive Time Reporting – The link is but may be hard to find the first time – once you use it the link will show in your Recent Apps on the left in Savannah
- NESSIE - https://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/sitelogin.cfm
- To sign the Security Document Agreement from the HR training document:
- To sign the Building Emergency Action Plan from the HR document: