2020-03-25 Software Scientist Onboarding notes

Shirts lab onboarding

• MS – Dotson charge number approved. Little more onboarding needed

• MS – Thompson is basically standard lab member with different responsibilities. May be good to prioritize health insurance that serves broader network if we’re not sure when move to colorado will happen.

• MT – Sounds good. I have private insurance for the moment in Iowa.

• JW – Lab wiki/resources/OE license? Check ins?

  • MS – For MT, I will send link for research computing, wiki

  • MS – For Dtoson, I will ask about this.

• JW – I will manage infrastructure team work, but for admin stuff, it would be good to have a regular meeting between each of them and MS.

  • MS – I will be the administrative contact for both MT and DD. I’ll also be acting as a mentor for MT.

• (General) – Progress reporting?

  • JW – I want minimal structure on this initially, but we’ll have regular developer check-ins

  • MS – I don’t like hovering over everyone’s shoulder, but it would be nice to have some report

  • MT – I’d like to report 3-5 bullet points each day

  • DD – I do digital standups, basically report in a channel on daily progress

Made #check-ins

• Jeffrey Wagner Look into whether we can make howdy that populates #check-ins

MT – What’s best way to get in contact with MS

• MS – On lab calendar, I have blocks for “Michael available for individual research meetings”, feel free to add yourself 24 hours in advance if needed. I’m also responsive on email and slack.

MS – DD, you might be interested in dashboards for data. Look under #benchmarks channel

General onboarding

DD – Personal page and to-do list

DD – Github org

Technical onboarding

Added DD to Slack

• DD: starting with a schedule of 6:30-10:30 AM Arizona time for focused work, some availability outside of that

Confluence

• DD already made personal page, JW helped set up task list macro

• Something to look into sometime: how to add dates and priority to task list

Zoom

• DD might get one through Colorado, might need to find another way

JW: Goal for managing admin overhead with 3 software scientists is to distribute responsibilities

JW: Keeping DD out of most subgroup meetings for now, MT might join some. Inviting DD to property estimator call, MT and DD to openKim call

Added DD to GitHub org